For our final exam in ENVS 220, students gathered in a classroom to present to each other our respective group projects through live presentation and posters. It was a wonderful low-stress opportunity to see what other groups have been up to and also to showcase all the hard work that we’ve done as individuals, teams, […]
Archives for December 2015
ENVS 220: The End of Lectures
Today marked the last day of formal lectures for ENVS 220, so I’d like to take a chance to do a short bullet-point reflection on how this course has impacted me. I’ve gained an array of very useful skills, including the ability to use ArcMap, which is something I really wanted to learn about before […]
Lab 7: Social Network Analysis
Networks explain the ways in which different components of a system connect. These connections can be between people, places, computers, even internet sites. In order to understand how these networks operate, the connections are mapped using a number of tools, and can be presented in a number of different ways. In this lab, we analyzed […]
Lab 2: GIS
In this lab we used ArcGIS, a mapping application intended for spatial analysis and mapping. ArcGIS has an advanced toolbar of options for creating maps and spatial analysis. We drew publicly available data on certain topics such as country income, life expectancy, etc. We layered this data into ArcMap to see spatially what kind of […]
The Job Search & Epiphanies
On November 30th, the USDA Forest Service released their summer seasonal job openings on the notorious USAJOBS.gov website for myself and the few thousand other outdoor workers to apply for. This date marks the true beginning of the hiring season for the public lands agencies such as the National Park Service, Forest Service, Fish & […]