ESRM311/CFR507 Soils and Land Use Starting Point
Dear Soils and Land Users;
Welcome to the
course…hopefully, the last few weeks won't reflect the weather
to expect for the rest of the quarter, but it often does. Here
is the url of the class starting point…
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311
Syllabus :
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/syllabus311/
or http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/syllabus507/
Note: Please print and fill out a field trip authorization form and
bring it to our first class. You need to have these before we
take the first field trip on January 20.
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/FieldTripAuthorizationForm.doc
Our first lab will be an
orientation to the course. You can start reading about
ESRM311/CFR507 on the home page "starting point".
Also, please start reading for
next week's lab (according to the syllabus), which will be
indoors in Bloedel 211.
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/bloedel.jpg
CLASS READING MATERIAL :
Reading in the King County soil survey is
available at:
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/King-County-Soil-Survey/
Reading in the Oregon Soil Judging Manual is
available at:
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/Oregon-Soil-Judging-Manual/
You can also download a full
color copy of the manual at:
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/OregonSoilJudgingManual.pdf
** Field
trip notebook**:
There's no rigid format for it. Throughout the quarter, there
will be handouts and questions to be answered listed in the
handouts, these questions and exercises are the starting point
for your notes. You could follow the direction the questions are
asking and develop your own questions; you could write a
paragraph stating your thoughts combining your backgrounds of
study; you could attach news, articles...etc. that you find
interested and related to the class; you could take pictures
during field trips and you could type it up and make
interpretations of your own....etc. Please keep your notes in
the same notebook so we could grade them conveniently.
We won't grade the notebook every week, so you could keep it and
write on it when ever you find a idea or thought and want to add
on to previous notes. We will collect the notebooks at the end
of the quarater for grading.
** Class Project **
There is also no rigid format for the class project. Students
will produce a project that can be a poster, paper, work of art
(including a poem, song, dance, pastry, etc.) that addresses the
subject "Soils and Land Use". The project should "stand on its
own", so if it is a powerpoint presentation (a popular method of
presenting a project), and it is to be the project, it should be
scripted in the "notes" section with what you might say for each
slide. Thus it would "stand on its own". If it is a work of art,
written material describing its origin (i.e. the idea, material
made from, etc.) might help this art-challenged professor better
understand it. You can always discuss ideas with us
Click the links below to
access class material
Current (must be online) syllabus (dates/readings/material
covered/grading) for ESRM311 - CFR507
Oregon Soil Judging Manual Online or as a
PDF (~8MB)
King County Soil Survey Text
King County Soil Maps
Seattle Geology Maps
(online) (this is a series of .jpg files of a Geology Map
that Rob has online). You may have to access these with an image
viewer and you'll have to scroll around and use map 1a.jpg and
1b.jpg for interpretations of surficial geology. We'll get this
together with a base map at some point.
Handouts and material covered in class are available online from
the class site http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/index.html
(they will change during the quarter).
NRCS Website Instruction
Sheet
Week #1 - Handouts
and
Extra
Material
Week #2, Soil
Properties Lab (in Bloedel 211) - Handouts and Extra Material
Week #3, Arboretum field trip - Handouts and Extra Material
Week #4, no class
Week #5, Burke-Gilman
Trail/CUH field trip - Handouts and Extra Material
Week #6, Wetlands, peat soils, Seattle,
Bellevue field trip - Handouts and Extra Material
Week #7, Redmond Ridge, Sammamish Canyon, Snoqualmie Valley
field trip - Handouts and
Extra material
Week #8, Cougar
Mountain water, soil and development field trip
Week #9,
Graduate student-led field trip
Week #10, In-Class Presentation of Final
Project