I received feedback from two committee members and students about my concentration proposal yesterday. After reading it over, I’ve decided to go back to the basics by reading books about the history of human-caused changes in salmon populations. One book I have already read is The Fish in the Forest: Salmon and the Web of Life […]
Archives for October 2015
Why Salmon?
At this point in my concentration, I’d like to explain the reason I chose to focus on salmon, as opposed to the countless other finfish or shellfish species. Dale Stokes’ 2014 book entitled The Fish in the Forest: Salmon and the Web of Life provides a modern perspective and understanding of the life history of salmon and […]
The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon
The IUCN report entitled “The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon” is a wonderful resource as a review of the state of salmon fisheries and related subtopics at the year 2007. I will be utilizing this report to further my understanding on what the state of salmon fisheries in North America is (or […]
ENVS 220: How Have I Grown?
ENVS220 has been one of my first classes at Lewis & Clark College and my introduction to the ENVS program here. Reflecting on the past two months of labs, lectures, and concentration work, I feel as though I have had some notable personal growth in the “try” aspects of this course. Try Initially, I was […]
Lab 6: Qualitative Research
At this link, you will find the writeup to the ENVS 220 lab #6, which challenged students to compare global vs. local and positive vs. negative for popular environmental literature. Summary In this lab, each lab team chose a different work within the popular environmental literature genre. Ultimately, our goal was to quantitatively observe how these […]