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 […]
Lab 5: ArcGIS Environmental Justice
Background Air pollution is an increasingly prominent issue because of its implications on human health, among others. According to the State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) study of Portland’s air pollution and toxics concentrations, Portland’s air quality has increased in the past three decades, but certain pollutants are notably higher than both ambient […]
Lab 4 ENVS 220: ArcGIS
At this link, you will find the writeup of ENVS 220 Lab 4. Summary GIS is a powerful tool for observing tabular data in a spatial format. This was the topic for this week’s lab: using ArcGIS software to compare different a vast number of variables. For example, we chose to compare the healthy average […]
Lab 3 ENVS 220: Inferential Statistics
On 9/21, the ENVS 220 class had its fourth lab, and the topic at hand was inferential statistics. By the end of the three hours, we had practiced taking raw data from a real-world source (UNEP, in this lab) and interpreting trends, behaviors, and correlations after statistically testing the data through the SPSS Statistics program. Overall, the lab […]