Background: Last Monday, we created a survey to explore how prevalent anxiety is amongst Lewis & Clark College students eating at the Fields Dining Hall on campus (also known as “the Bon”). We presumed that many students, particularly freshmen, on campus experience anxiety eating at the Bon (labeled “Bon anxiety”) when sitting alone for meals. […]
Bon Anxiety
Effective surveys require a careful balance of effective questions, survey ethics, interpersonal communication skills, and data analysis. We used Fulcrum to demonstrate our ability to make appropriate surveys and to code and analyze data that we receive.
The Social Network – Maya, Jay, Tasha
Networks explain the ways in which different components of a system connect. These connections can be between people, places, computers, even internet sites. In order to understand how these networks operate, the connections are mapped using a number of tools, and can be presented in a number of different ways. We analyzed and presented social […]
Blessed Unrest Literature Analysis – Jay, Maya, Tasha
Background Popular environmental literature often acts as an important bridge between the scientific world and the world beyond. This genre of literature brings much-needed context to scientific writing, which can be too narrowly focused on one single experiment or problem. This context is also useful for “connecting the dots” and drawing conclusions among individual scientific […]
Mapping Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon
Air pollution is an increasingly prominent issue because of its implications on human health, among others. According to the State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) study of Portland’s air pollution and toxics concentrations, Portland’s air quality has increased in the past three decades, but certain pollutants are notably higher than both ambient benchmark […]
Maps, Maps, and More Maps
Using ArcGIS, Maya, Jay, and I were able to present the data from our last lab in a new way! We layered the information onto different maps as a way to compare individual data samples to the larger population, as well as one data set to another! This allowed us to look at whether or not our conclusion from […]