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YEAR TWO
AUTUMN 2012 Course: OCEAN 230 Rivers & Beaches-- Professor Chuck Nittrouer and Professor David Montgomery Annotation: This is one of my three lab reports following a fieldtrip for Ocean 230: Rivers & Beaches, a class that fulfills one of my major requirements. I really enjoyed this class and can say that it's one of my favorites at UW. Its multiple field trips allowed us to see the physical processes of river transport, sedimentation, and general fluvial processes. One of our field trips, which my lab report documents, began at the mountains, and from there we followed and observed the processes going from rivers to streams to tributaries to deltas to the ocean. Seeing and understanding more about these processes has helped shape my view of human interactions with nature and has helped further my belief of how humans need to coordinate with nature and work with it, rather than against it. SPRING 2012 Course: ENVIR 200 Information & Communication-- Frederica Helmiere Annotation: This is my essay for Envir 200: Information & Communication, another class for my major. The first part of this class was more theory-based, analyzing texts from environmental writers like Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold. The second part was more scientific and research-based, and analyzed research and studies from scientific journals. This essay is from the first part of the class and is about how nature almost inherently has good and bad parts, even though today's society overall deems it as good (as shown by our many environmental, green, conservation, etc. efforts). We may not be completely aware of the bad parts of nature, but my close readings of major texts shows evidence of these bad parts. |
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