The Great Shake-Out panel on Wednesday was fantastic. There were four people on the panel: Jay Wilson, Chief Resilience Coordinator of Clackamas County Disaster Management; Felicia Heaton of the Portland Bureau of Disaster Management; our very own Liz Safran, geologist extraordinare; and Jason Holmgren, whose title I am unsure of, but he knows about Lewis […]
ENVS 400: Capstone
These posts contain my thoughts and reflections throughout the two semester process of researching, writing, and creating my capstone.
The Long and Winding Road: Week One
As it turns out, our thesis assignments have come to an end. In the midst of my rejoicing, I realized that although we don’t have any more “busy work” (which was barely even busy work since it was actually very helpful in guiding my topic formulation), this is the harder part. Now is the time that […]
Boundaries and Data
I ran into a few issues while trying to collect data this week. I had plans to go around the neighborhood and look at notice boards at coffee shops, laundromats, and other public spaces, but as I was getting ready to go out, I realized I didn’t know where to go. I was interested in […]
The Girl Nextdoor: My new thesis persona
Until now, I have been dancing around with a few thesis ideas, not really ready to pick a partner. Today I think I’m almost ready to completely commit, and I’m excited about the prospect of dancing around with this particular project for the next few months (AKA 8 months). It seems to combine everything I […]
Relevance and Legitimacy: The Joy of Journals!
For the data section of this week’s post, please see Boundaries and Data, a post about the Nextdoor app as a probable data source. This week we chose two journals to browse through and select three related articles to read and harvest ideas from. I found this to be a lengthy but helpful exercise. Many times […]
Connections and Perceptions: Theories Behind Maps and Place
I visited my friend in Seattle this past weekend and binge-watched a bunch of reality TV, so now I have a much more exciting way to look at thesis. I now imagine each week narrated by an un-identified voice (or maybe Jim Proctor) with a quick montage of clips of each of us doing our […]