My idea to volunteer for the Johnson Creek Watershed Council as a way to narrow down my interests for a senior capstone has taken me on a path as crooked and winding as any tributary. During the surveys for lampreys and steelhead, I interacted with various actors involved in the restoration of the Johnson Creek […]
Archives for March 2017
Case Study Synthesis: Willapa Bay
For the past few weeks, a group of fellow Environmental Studies majors and I dove into the situation unfolding at Willapa Bay, a unique bay with an intertidal zone comprising roughly half of the area of the bay itself. The oyster industry here is experiencing a shift in land-use policies to solve a problem of […]
In Hurricane Katrina’s Wake
As our last structured exercise working with ArcGIS software, we studied the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the three coastal counties of Mississippi. This exercise involved more complex use of the software’s impressive capabilities, check out the results below! I have structured this post in a “preliminary report” style that attempts to concisely and accurately inform […]