Trip Directions and Journal Assignments
FIELD TRIPS: Spring, 2008: check departure times
and destinations prior to each trip.
Assignments:
Week 10
1) Read
‘Potential consequences of climate Variability and change for the Pacific
Northwest’. Material will be discussed Monday/Tuesday
2nd/3rd June
2) Tuesday 3rd June 10am Robert K. Johnston,
Ph.D., Marine Environmental Support Office – NW, Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Center will talk on the Puget Sound Partnership and on ‘Insights gained
from monitoring and modeling pollution runoff into Sinclair and Dyes Inlet’
3) PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 4 June 10 am, set-up 9:30am
Week 9
Read the forward to ‘The
Sustainability Revolution by David Orr’.
Discussion on Wed 28 May
Week 8
Look up the location of the Elwha Dam and check out http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2294301.html.
Include a route map in your trip journal
Week 7
1) Read
the introduction to “Tracing a headland” by Rebecca Solnit,
we will discuss Wed 14 May.
2) Locations
quiz #2 also on 14 May. Add Yakima,
Richland/Pasco, Hanford Reservation, Ellensburg, Bonneville Dam, Wanapum Dam, Brooks Memorial State Park, Poulsbo, Centralia,
Potholes Reservoir, Spokane to your list
Week 6
1) Read
John Downing’s “The coastal zone and its origin”
2) Reminder:
Project workshop on Wednesday, Bring the calendar that I handed out with a
timeline to project completion shown, bring a part of your project as it
exists, come prepared to discuss progress and issues.
3) Wednesday
7 May: Locations quiz: Know the Washington State
locations of: Seattle, Bremerton, Belfair, Silverdale, Goldendale, Shelton,
Olympia, Aberdeen, Neah Bay, Port Angeles, Sequim,
Port Townsend, Tacoma, Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Vancouver, Puget Sound, Hood
Canal, Columbia River, Queets River, Chehalis River, Snoqualmie Pass, Mt
Rainier, Mt St Helens.
Week 5
Ahead of the test on
Tuesday 29 April, read the Chapter on Climate by Claude Curran. We will finish weather and climate on Monday.
There is no reading for Wednesday.
Field work: Ballard
and development, Ballard locks (Hiram M. Chittenden locks), West point
wastewater treatment plant, and nearby cliffs
1) Mark
the sites of Ballard, the Ballard locks and the wastewater treatment plant on
your map, the map should be taped into your journal by the time it’s turned in
on Monday.
2) Think
about your field project.
Week 4
Readings for 23 April
1) Read
Coll-Peter Thrush.
Prepare to discuss this in class (no written assignment necessary). What is Huchoosedah?
How does this paper relate to Robert Thayer’s and Alan Durning’s
writings on bioregions?
2) Read
Pg 188 – the middle of Pg194 in ‘Museums as Contact zones’ by James Clifford.
Prepare to discuss in class (no written assignment necessary).
Field work: Rain
forest and Beach
1. Think about your
field project
2. Make sure to make
notes and diagrams to show:
a) The pattern of
erosion and deposition if we visit the river while we are in the rain forest.
Also observe the path of the river.
b) The organization of
materials in a transit from the sea to the forest when we are at the beach
Week 3
Readings and
Assignment s for 16 April
3) Reminder:
Project outline and one draft piece of work. Come prepared to discuss your
idea.
4) Finish
reading Alan Durning’s This Place on Earth Pg 1- 66. On an 8.5
x 11 piece of paper (landscape or portrait) hand in a diagram that shows a
timeline for the waves of European engagements with each resource within the
PNW bioregion.
Field trip: Miller
Bay
1) One
question at the Suquamish Museum to be answered in your journals:
After looking at the museum exhibits,
select one object, photograph, or one piece of text. Make a drawing of it, part of it, or it and
its surroundings. Explain why you find it particularly interesting or
significant.
(The object might be an archaeological
tool, and artifact, Chief Seattle’s speech, perhaps a photograph of the remains
of Old man House or an Indian boarding school)
2) Note
the shape and topography of the Miller Bay spit and the distribution of plants
Week 2
Readings 9 April:
Read Chapter 1 from Dicken’s Great Expectations
Start reading Philip Jackson’s section
on the PNW (I will be lecturing on this material)
Get at least half way through reading
Alan Durning’s This
Place on Earth
Wednesday 9 April: We will discuss the ‘take-home’ message about
marshes in Dickens’ work and the approach of Alan Durning
to the history of the Pacific Northwest.
No material to be handed in but a reminder that this is course material.
Tacoma Field
Trip Thursday 10 April
·
Dickman Mill:
In your
journal notes for this site consider how the land use has changed over time
Question
which we will think about together on site: How have we physically and
culturally constructed this site to be a park that reflects both its
environmental heritage (pre human contact) and its human heritage (European
commerce)?
·
Port of
Tacoma:
Ahead of
time check out the ships that will be at the port
http://www.portoftacoma.com/vessellist.cfm?CFID=248804&CFTOKEN=35578165
Enjoy the
tour and record your impressions
·
Gog-le-hi-te
Wetland:
Record your impressions (perhaps
contrast to Dickman Mill, Nisqually??)
·
Washington State History Museum
Make sure that you see:
1) The 3-D
map of Washington and the display “Washington over time” on the large flat
screen near the entrance” (I’m hoping that this still exists)
2) The Great Hall of Washington
history. Please walk through all of the
units/elements in the Hall, then focus on the unit that you find most
interesting.
Questions:
a) Which
is the unit most interesting to you?
b) Why?
c) Where
and when does the history in this unit/element of PNW take place?
d) What
artifacts are particularly effective in telling the story?
3) Please look at any exhibits
involving Native Americans.
Impressions?
4) Check out ‘Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration’
Read
at least two of these carefully. Impressions?
Week 1
Wednesday, 2 April:
a) Student card
b) Summary of Robert Thayer’s
bioregional thinking paper
Thursday 3 April:
Nisqually Delta: Course specific questions: