Department of Environmental Sciences
College of the Environment
Western Washington University

ESCI Field Camp
 Week 2 Schedule
 Spring 2025

Instructor: John McLaughlin
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

Day

Location

Topics

Reading
Mon
4/7 		room TBA

09:30
10:30 		Check-in
Research project status update
Animal track identification
River safety videos
River safety practices and skills
Research project development workshop (in project groups)
(**Research project proposal due**)

Zielinski 2016

AW Safety Code

Film: DamNation
Tue
4/8 		Field sites TBD Research project data sampling trials
Animal track location and indentification
(**Frog distribution project due**) 		Film:
Run Wild Run Free
Wed
4/9 		room TBA
8am
09:30
10:30
10:40
11:30
end by 12:00 		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
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
Martin 2015(trailer)
Anderson 2021
RES 2023
Thur
4/10 		Field sites TBD Research project reality check
Research project data sampling trials
Indigenous relationships with rivers
LEKT 2020, pp.82-100
Fri
4/11 		10am
Trees south of AW
10:30
11:30
11:40
12:10
 Elwha trip preparation

Elwha trip environmental briefing
BREAK
Field expeditions: mental, social, leadership skills
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

References cited

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