Taken from a blog post for the Lewis & Clark Environmental Studies Program Site Friends With Benefits I am not a scientist and I do not claim to be. Nor do I have any interest in claiming to be. What I want, more than anything, is to be friends with scientists. This summer I was […]
Charismatic Megafauna to the Rescue
This Monday I had my first day at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center in downtown Portland. While most of my time will be spent volunteering for the USGS and working on informational videos that explore sedimentation and dam deconstruction in the Pacific Northwest, I have some time dedicated to working on my thesis research. […]
Thesis Outline
This semester I have wrestled with some really tough questions and have not yet come to any solid conclusions but the thesis process in underway! I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to work at the USGS this summer and try to find some more concrete questions to sink my teeth into. My work […]
Organized Chaos
This image is trying to map out all of the connections that occur between the actors involved in the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and their relationships with the four main branches of systematic environmental theory: ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics. The basic breakdown of the Klamath situation is as follows. Main actors include federal agencies, […]
The Situation
On the surface, it seems as though integrating relevant scientific information into environmental actions, whether they be at the local, state, or federal level, is a no-brainer. A respected scientist will do research, be peer reviewed, published in a journal, the media will report findings to the public, and scientists’ research will then be drawn […]