Tasha Addington-Ferris

  • About
  • Courses
    • Environmental Analysis
    • Environmental Theory
    • (Un)natural Disasters
    • Situating Environmental Problems and Solutions
  • Concentration
  • Projects
    • Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness Community Outreach Project
    • #Portland: Branding City Aesthetics Through Social Media
    • Nuclear Power – Resilient or Not?
    • Objects of Oppression: How Different Perspectives of Logging have Affected Douglas County
    • An Introduction to Community Gardens in Portland
  • Thesis
  • Posts

Framing Questions

November 10, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Framing questions are very important when starting to look at a project.  Every time I start a project that maybe needs to be adjusted in some way or another I always forget to go back and look at my framing question.  By the time I do, it is so clear that having a good framing […]

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Interviews with LC Boners – Jay, Maya, Tasha

November 2, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Interviews with LC Boners – Jay, Maya, Tasha

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. […]

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Bon Anxiety

October 27, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

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.

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The Social Network – Maya, Jay, Tasha

October 20, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

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 […]

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Cool New Tech

October 15, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Cool New Tech

This past semester of ENVS 220 has introduced me to a number of methods and tools to be used in later environmental analysis.  These have included the SPSS statistical tool, mapping program ArcGIS, network mapping through yEd, even the statistical equation side of Excel.  When I think about my growth through the class so far, […]

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Resilience

October 13, 2015 By Tasha Addington-Ferris

Resilience

After reading Urban Centers: An Assessment of Sustainability by McGranahan et al., I realized that I needed a new way to disagree with the idea of sustainability.  I knew that I didn’t quite agree with what McGranahan brought up, but I wasn’t sure how to disagree.  Brown et al. and Sellberg et al. introduced me to […]

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