ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis: The End!

Today's ENVS Poster Celebration marks the end of my time in ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis. What an experience it has been! I am definitely excited to finally complete the course, and to celebrate by presenting my lab group's main achievement of the semester: this poster. It may not look like much, but this colorful rectangle represents… Continue reading ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis: The End!

Situation: Situation

Earlier this week, we did an in-class activity that introduced us to examples of situated environmental research. Each student was asked to select a reading from a list created by our professor, Jim, and to become an 'expert' on it. Each reading on the list was an example of situated environmental research. Examples ranged from… Continue reading Situation: Situation

Cast(e)ing About for New Frameworks

Background Transitioning out of the course’s Capitalocene unit, lab groups were instructed to begin thinking about other significant environmental influences. As we’ve explored in weeks past, the Anthropocene’s broad (and arguably vague) “human activity” or “anthropos” and the “capital” of the Capitalocene provide robust frameworks that guide thinking, questioning and research about the environment. This… Continue reading Cast(e)ing About for New Frameworks