After assessing my interests and deciding that I would love to integrate education, ethnic studies, and art, I had a meeting with the Environmental Education teacher at the grad school, Greg Smith. He pointed me towards a plethora of interesting resources, including books, articles, journals and websites that are all very close to what I […]
Social Network Analysis: Gephi
Background Social network analysis is an important tool that helps find connections between people, ideas, or books, to name a few. In such an interdisciplinary major as environmental studies, it is important to find connections between all the different topics we examine. This lab analyzes the network of citations between thirty-six different environmental classics, as […]
Navigating Through SPSS: Inferential Statisics
This week’s lab built upon the driving variable we compiled data on in last week’s lab. Last week, we did literary research on the GEF index on biodiversity and got a better idea of the background behind measuring the data and observed some general trends between biodiversity, country size, and forest cover. This week was much […]
3 become 1: Creating a Concentration
Thursday September 18th marked a very special day in Environmental Studies history — we began thinking about our ENVS concentrations, which will dictate what direction we go with our majors. Instead of approaching our concentrations head on, we worked with our lab groups to produce random options. We entered a topic or object of interest and […]
Overseas Analyses
We began this week by reading important articles on the ENVS RSS feed. After getting into groups and sharing these articles we explored the differences between data, methods, theories, and frameworks. All of these categories fall under environmental analysis, but they have different scopes. Data is just raw, unprocessed information. Methods are a way to […]
Comparing Biodiversity to Country Size and Forest Cover Around the World
Myles Bridgewater-Jackman, AnaCapri Mauro, Kara Scherer ENVS 220 fall 2014 Comparing Biodiversity to Country Size and Forest Cover Around the World Background The main variable we focused on was the GEF (Global Environmental Facility) benefits index for biodiversity, which compiles information about species, their threat status, and various habitat types in 183 different countries. This […]