Geography
Featured projects completed in college to acquire my Geography degree.
Delta Ponds Research Project
Winter 2017
Studied a public park's geographic origin and evolution, explaining how law played a role in land use decisions on the local, state, and federal level. Required looking up laws in the ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes), finding connections between physical and urban geography, and peer collaboration, culminating into an on-site presentation and essay.
Story Map (ArcGIS Online)
Fall 2016
Formed a research question to critically think about how climate change affects alpine glaciers by considering regional differences, historical patterns, scientific processes, and their consequences, incorporating web maps and Google Earth aerial imagery. Follow the hyperlink to view it (opens another page).
Vegetation Change Map (ArcMap)
Fall 2016
Created a vegetation distribution map using ArcGIS that involved learning new computer skills. Imported shapefiles from multiple databases, researched tutorials to learn new commands, formed queries to filter geospatial data, and edited tables in Excel to organize the data.
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They are decorated in homes everywhere for Christmas.
It's the tree engraved on Oregon licence plates.
I have enjoyed their company as I have grown older in this city. The tree I would recommend. - Avante Grady
They are decorated in homes everywhere for Christmas.
Pervasive Patterns Photo Project
Fall 2012
Traversed on foot through multiple neighborhoods and parks to take photos of a defining landscape pattern: needleaf trees. Used landscape architecture perspectives to understand why trees were located in certain places. Discussed relative observations and experiences to analyze the cultural significance.