Impacts of Climate Change on the Pacific Northwest

August 16, 2019

About your blog assignments

Each team will post blog essays illustrated with pictures and short videos to the course website, discussing and documenting their experience from the perspective that their team is focused on, but also connecting the perspective to the other two teams. These should utilize graphic elements that you create in support of your story such as pictures, videos and maps. If you are interested in seeing examples of UW student workshop based blogs, here is a recent one from the College of the Environment, and the initial blog posts for this workshop are here.

Grading rubric for the blog posts is here.

For example: when we are at Mount Rainier, the geology team can discuss volcanic eruptions in the PNW and the impacts on the ecology and humans in the region. The ecology team can discuss riparian forest and function and how these are driven by geology and impact humans (water quality, dam safety). The human issues team can discuss social trails in relations to geological features (human safety) and impact on ecological biodiversity.

Your team will be posting 4 of these blog posts (12 total):

  • 1 from Pack Forest by Mount Rainier
  • 1 from ONRC on the Olympic Peninsula
  • 1 from University of Washington Campus in Seattle
  • 1 final post once back in Nanjing. We want you to do the 4th and final blog post after you return home. Take 3-5 days to reflect on your excursion and the things you learned. Now compare these to climate change issues in Nanjing, how are these the same (?), how are these different (?), are the solutions being applied to these issues similar? For example: is urban canopy cover same or different between Nanjing and Seattle, and what are the policies behind this, how are these serving the populations of these two cities, can these be improved by learning from each other? You can use pictures from Nanjing to demonstrate your point.

The full assignments page is located here. Make sure you check the page for the most recent information about the assignment expectations.

The videos will be posted to the youtube channel “NanjingU”:

www.youtube.com/channel/UC0_Admwa86qdQhrQnadV0Wg

The DJI Osmo camera

 

We have a camera that we will be lending you to record your video. All groups will be using the same camera (a DJI Osmo) and Jonathan will download all videos at the end of the day. When composing your blogs, you will pick what videos will be uploaded to youtube. A few tricks with using the Osmo can be found here:

https://store.dji.com/guides/10-osmo-pocket-quick-tips/

Grading rubric for the blog posts is here.