Welcome!
This site documents the work that I have done individually or as collaborations with other students through the Environmental Studies major at Lewis and Clark College.
Further resources to understanding my major and school can be found on the ENVS and Lewis and Clark websites.
Courses
My Environmental Study (ENVS) courses include Environmental Analysis, Environmental Theory, (Un)Natural Disasters, and Situating Environmental Problems and Solutions. All four of these classes are within the ENVS department, but have been paired with many other classes, including but not limited to, Environmental Economics, Pacific Rim Cities, Environmental History, and more. The ENVS major is very interdisciplinary and requires partnership with many departments in order to create a more robust understanding of the problems we face.
Projects
Project portfolios work in tandem with course portfolios to demonstrate class and concentration progress. Notable projects are: independent study on nuclear power, the Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness Community Outreach Project, and a project on the logging community in Southern Oregon. These portfolios include a summary of the project, resources used, posts related to the project, and any outcomes of the project. Outcomes usually include either essays, posters, or others.
Concentration
In order for the ENVS major to best fit student interests, each student writes a concentration proposal that will help guide their course selection and area of study for the remainder of their time in the department. My concentration is in the concept of resiliency and how it pertains to urban areas in the Pacific Rim. This led me to take classes such as Pacific Rim Cities, Environmental Theory, and (Un)natural Disasters. This concentration and the classes I took to follow it led to my interest in community resilience to natural disaster, as you will see in my thesis work about the 2011 Tohoku triple disaster in Japan.
Thesis
This will be a brief explanation of my thesis, work process, and links to my thesis page and categories.
Recent Posts
Start Big or Go Home: building the background of my research
Towards the beginning of the school year I had begun to sort out the background framework of my thesis. My provisional work was enough to help me start thinking about methodology, but has since then lacked in foundation for me to smoothly transition fully to my methodology. As a result, I have had issues in […]
Taking time to timeline
Due to my recent few weeks of doubt in my progress so far, my timeline is squished into the remaining few weeks of school. In the next week, so before my meeting with Jim on Tuesday (11/21), I will complete: One post with the the background portion of my outline including which sources I will […]
My thesis wake-up call, refocusing with intention
The difference between my first and second mad-libs is probably the best representation of the struggles that I have been having with my thesis the last month and a half. I came into the semester with a very concrete idea and a plan of how to put that idea onto paper. Because of this concrete […]
Residential Electricity Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Communicating Relationships Through the use of Graphics
Part I: Recreating Graphics Graphic designs such as those through Gapminder, founded by Hans Rosling, allow stories to be told using data and facts that many people believe to be difficult to access and understand. Tools like Gapminder can allow the dissemination of difficult to understand information through the use of visuals. The storage of […]
Japanese Court Orders Payments To Plaintiffs Over Fukushima Disaster : The Two-Way : NPR
It’s the largest ruling of its kind over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, totaling nearly $4.5 million. Source: Japanese Court Orders Payments To Plaintiffs Over Fukushima Disaster : The Two-Way : NPR This article represents a powerful component of the post-disaster reality for many Japanese citizens affected by the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. In […]