Nothing momentous to report, just a snapshot of my students working in the lab this afternoon. No broken glassware, no spill, no disasters (that I’m aware of, anyway.) Hopefully the results won’t be too wacky either! The water they are analyzing for total coliforms and fecal coliforms comes from a site near the mouth of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘water quality’
Wet Lab
Posted in teaching, tagged engineering, Personal, science, teaching, water quality on 9 February, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching and Learning
Posted in local, teaching, tagged engineering, humboldt, teaching, water quality, weather on 31 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m teaching two classes this semester: Environmental Impact Assessment, primarily for seniors; and Water Quality and Environmental Health, for second- and third-year students. The water quality class is split up into two groups for lab purposes. We took advantage of the unseasonably beautiful weather this past week to go do some field work along Jolly [...]
Kicking off a new decade
Posted in Personal, site, work, tagged ceqa, economy, engineering, environment, impacts, local, natural resources, nepa, water quality, work on 1 January, 2011 | 1 Comment »
2010 was a difficult year for most people I know, and for me personally. I was sick, our car was stolen right out of our driveway, I lost a beloved cat to illness, I had unexpected (and unentertaining) expenses, work has been very slow, etc. I stopped writing on my blog early in the year, [...]
Canoe Journey 2008 and water quality data
Posted in local, nature, science, tagged environment, native peoples, natural resources, puget sound, science, water quality on 13 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every year since 1993, dozens of Native tribes and First Nations from the Pacific Northwest, from British Columbia to Washington, gather for the Tribal Canoe Journey. This year, a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council will result in five of the hundred or so canoes participating in the [...]



