In continuing my research with my concentration, I came across an LA times article reporting on the first GMO animal in the USA to be legally endorsed by the FDA for country-wide human consumption. Of course, there was a private company behind the works: AquaBounty Technologies Inc. The debate over GM animals is not a […]
Archives for November 2015
Updated Concentration Proposal 11/13/2015
To the natural world, salmon play roles as keystone species in eco-systems ranging from small freshwater streams to the vastness that is the Pacific Ocean. These eco-systems, with their various trophic level members, have come to depend on salmon as a crucial food resource. Terrestrial predators like the North American brown bear Ursus arctos and […]
ENVS 220: What’s Working and What Needs Working
It’s been some time since I’ve documented my progress so far in ENVS 220, and now seems like a great time because we have finished all of our skills labs and will be moving into our concentration project. Here are some of my thoughts on the major aspects of ENVS 220 so far. LABS I […]
Lab 9: Interviews
Following up on last week’s Lab 8: Surveys, each lab team in ENVS 220 conducted follow-up interviews for a half-dozen students who took the survey and were willing to be contacted for further opinions about the respective survey topics. My team again looked at Bon Anxiety at Lewis & Clark College; specifically for this lab, […]
Updated Concentration Proposal
Last Friday was the deadline for ENVS 220 students to submit their updated concentration proposals. Feedback from the committee members was issued to us sometime earlier, and we were expected to revise each section of our proposals in preparation for this week’s final examination of concentration proposals. For my proposal, I placed emphasis on the […]