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ESRM 301, Maintaining Nature in an Urban and Urbanizing World

NOTE: This schedule is tentative as a few field trips and speakers are still being developed. A final schedule will be available soon.

Jan 3 What is a city? How do cities affect nature and nature affect cities? Discussion of the class (Sarah Reichard)

Jan 4 How do cities operate and make decisions? (Kathy Wolf)

Jan 9 Human population growth and its impact on cities (Sarah Reichard)

Jan 10 Studio - Biophysical components - campus exercise (Tom Hinckley)

Jan 11 Interpreting and mitigating biophysical changes (Tom Hinckley)

Jan 16 Socio-cultural components and stakeholder views (Kathy Wolf)

Jan 17 Studio - campus walk with 4 stakeholders

Jan 18 What was here before we got here? (Ray Larson)

Jan 23 What happens to water ways? Shorelines, riparian, wetlands, etc. (Sarah Reichard)

Jan 24 Field trip to the Duwamish River

Jan 25 Environmental Justice; project proposal due

Jan 30 What is rarity? Why does it happen? What do we do about it? (Sarah Reichard)

Jan 31 SEA Street field trip

Feb 1 Ravenna Creek Daylighting; mid-term given

Feb 6 Disturbance ecology - what level of "pristine" nature is possible? (Sarah Reichard); mid-term due

Feb 7 Field trip to Schmitz and other parks in various states of restoration

Feb 8 Flora and fauna reports I

Feb 13 Wildlife in urban areas

Feb 14 Wildlife field trip

Feb 15 Flora and fauna reports II

Feb 20 Where does our garbage go? The economics of trash (Jenny Bagby)

Feb 21 Field trip to Cedar Grove

Feb 22 Lecture and discussion on other infrastructure issues, e.g., roads and sewers and whether shipping our garbage off to Oregon just creates problems for someone else? (Kathy Wolf, plus Sarah and Jim)

Feb 27 Sustainable buildings (Sarah Reichard)

Feb 28 Field trip to Merrill Hall

Mar 1 Retrofitting building

Mar 6 Drivers, processes, and patterns (Sarah Reichard); final given out

Mar 7 Review the quarter and identify the drivers, processes and patterns that we have studied

Mar 8 Wrap-up

Mar 15 10:30-2:30 Presentations of projects, final and project report due