Last Friday, Lewis & Clark College held its 3rd annual Festival of Scholars, an entire day of programs dedicated to showcasing our student scholarship and accomplishments from the sciences to the arts. For a hefty two hours of this day, the Environmental Studies department deployed its army of students to present on capstone and other […]
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 […]
Beginner’s Luck
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 […]
New Years Resolutions…
It’s been a little while since I’ve visited my concentration of studies in an academic manner, so here are a few steps I’m taking to get the gears turning again. Roughly a year ago. the topic I chose for my concentration was the Political Ecology of Salmon Conservation, a very hefty topic considering all the […]