Four weeks have passed since my arrival in Osaka, Japan for my semester abroad. While I am not strictly taking any courses related to Environmental Studies here, I am auditing an Enviro. Science class (in Japanese) and am familiarizing myself with how the Japanese view and solve environmental problems. Of particular interest (or frustration) to foreigners […]
ENVS 220: Final Exam Poster Presentation Session
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, […]
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 & […]
GMO: Salmon Legalized in USA
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 […]
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 […]
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