Office: ES 434
Phone: 650-7617
E-mail:
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Office Hours: by appointment
Field Camp home page: https://faculty.jmcl.wwu.edu/Field_camp/field_home.htm
Department of Environmental Sciences
College of the Environment
Western Washington University
ESCI Field Camp
Instructor: John McLaughlin
Office: ES 434
Phone: 650-7617
E-mail:
(
Please do not send attachments in proprietary formats.)
Office Hours: by appointment
Field Camp home page:
https://faculty.jmcl.wwu.edu/Field_camp/field_home.htm
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Day |
Location |
Topics |
Reading |
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Mon 4/6 |
Rock Ring sculpture 10am AH 015 11:30 12-1pm 2pm |
Check-in Research project status update River safety practices and skills part 1 Animal track identification River safety videos BREAK River safety practices and skills part 2 Research project development workshop (in project groups) (**Research project proposal due**) |
Zielinski 2016 AW Safety Code Gryder 2025a Gryder 2025b Film: DamNation |
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Tue 4/7 |
Field sites TBD |
Research project data sampling trials Animal track location and indentification (**Frog distribution project due**) |
Film: Run Wild Run Free |
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Wed 4/8 |
AH 018 8am 09:30 10:00 11:00 Outdoor Center 1pm |
Abstracts: structure, writing, editing Scientific article structure and writing strategy Butterfly identification BREAK Dam removal for restoration Snake River restoration prospects Wild & Scenic Rivers: status, distribution, prospects National Rivers Inventory Gear Lending Library tour |
Turbek et al 2016 Edwards et al.2025 Forister et al.2021. Bellmore et al 2019 O'Connor et al.2015 Anderson 2018 Patagonia 2015 DoW,SOWS 2022 Atkinson 2015(trailer) (full film) Anderson 2024 RES 2023 |
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Thur 4/9 |
Field sites TBD |
Research project reality check Research project data sampling trials Indigenous relationships with rivers |
LEKT 2020, pp.82-100 |
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Fri 4/10 |
10am Trees south of AW 10:30 11:30 11:40 12:10 |
Elwha trip preparation Expedition behavior Field expeditions: mental, social, leadership skills Elwha trip environmental briefing BREAK Elwha research project review, discussion, development (in project groups) Revised research proposal due (**Revised Elwha lit. review, due**) (**Grande Ronde literature review due**) |
LNT 2012 Bartlebaugh 2015 Elwha orthophoto 2018 |
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