As senior year creeps closer and closer, each of us Environmental Studies students must constantly work towards our ultimate goal: graduating. Just kidding. We’ll see if we get there. But first! we culminate our studies in a capstone or thesis project, and this post is about how I’ve inched incrementally closer to that wonderful, looming cumulonimbus […]
Archives for February 2017
Los Angeles “Asian Neighborhoods”
In our most recent exercise as students of Jessica Kleiss’s GEOL 340 Problems in Spatial Science course, we used publicly available data to research our own questions regarding demographics. Naturally, I went back to my roots where I grew up, Torrance and the larger Los Angeles County. I took demographics data and tried to further my […]
The Lamprey Lowdown
For the first part of my next steps toward capstone finalization, I have chosen to read the introduction section of the book titled Salmon 2100: The Future of Wild Pacific Salmon. The volunteer orientation for being a Steelhead and Lamprey surveyor for the Johnson Creek Watershed Council was on Tuesday as well, and in the next […]
A Changing Chicago: From 1990-2000
In our third exercise in GEOL 340 Problems in Spatial Science, we developed a whole new set of skills that allowed us to analyze the shifted demographics of Chicago city from 1990 to 2000. Building on our previous skills, we were able to use publicly available data, display spatial data in 3D form, and use […]