Assignments

• Factsheets
• Journal

Class Goals

Field Trips

• Trip 1
• Trip 2
• Trip 3

Schedule

Student Issues

• Grades
• Responsibilities

Teaching Team

• Instructor
• TA

Background material on:

• Biogeography
• Biology 162
• Climate & Climate Change
• Fire Ecology
• Forest & Tree Growth
• Forest structure
• Gradients
• Phenology
• Serpentine
• Species Factsheets

References

Archival Material

Field Trips Historical

• Rattlesnake Ridge (2007)
• Lake Tradition
• Asahel Curtis
• North Fork

Student Responsibilities 401 - 04-06-10

Content

• Course Requirements
• Field trip requirements
• Journal
• Grades

Course Requirements

• Attend three scheduled field trips
• Attend field trips based upon sign-up schedule
• Complete all field trip assignments and the two factsheets for each field trip.
• Keep a journal
• Places all entries including assignments in journal

Field Trip Requirements

• Sign Required Waiver (Fieldtripwaiverform.pdf)
• Must have proper foot wear (no running shoes or flip-flops!!)
• Be prepared for cold and wet weather
• Be prepared for intense sun (sunglasses, sun screen)
• Be prepared for bugs
• For the last trip, North Fork of the Teanaway, be prepared for a strenous hike and a long day. Do not wait until May 15th to test new boots or try to get into shape!!
• Bring personal first aid kit, do not forget any of your required medication including asthma.
• NO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS (other than caffeine or prescribed)
• In vehicles,
  • Wear seat belts
  • Follow driver instructions
  • Tell driver if he or she is not driving appropriately or safely
  • Drivers
    • Make sure all passengers are present (use sign-in sheet)
    • Know where you are going
    • Drive safety following both traffic rules/laws as well as common sense
    • Make sure everyone is buckled.

Journal: A major requirement for this course is maintaining a journal. Journal-keeping may be second nature for some of you. However, for many of you, this will be a new exercise and I encourage you to have your work checked to make sure you're on track.

Purpose of Your Journal: The principal purposes of your journal are to help you describe and document what you have seen or collected in the field and to describe exactly where you observed or collected it, and to track your progress in meeting your objectives for this series of field trips. Think of your journal as the foundation for a future article in Pacific Northwest Magazine or a book. You need not write down everything, just sufficient detail to remind you of what you saw, the situation, the setting. Notes like these were what enable Darwin to write his book (see section prepared by the Ecological Society of America about the Lewis and Clark expedition). Linking purposes and objectives as well as the questions posed in the lecture notes section are also important.

Assignment Section: Make sure to include assignments either directly into journal or appended to the journal.

Field trip Section: A major part of the journal. Will need to be able to take notes under often adverse conditions (write key ideas and re-write later or have a really good rite-in-the-rain notebook.

• Appropriate background information
• Objectives of the field trip
• General and specific observations associated with the field trip including date, weather, location, conditions, land owner (including people's names), their objective, how managed, etc.
• Exercises: nature of, purpose of, data collected or observations made
• Summary of trip and your reflections on objectives and what you learned or did not learn

Very detailed notes about journalling can be found on this page.

Grades