ESRM311/CFR507 Soils and Land Use Starting Point
Dear Soils and Land Users;
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 21.
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/FieldTripAuthorizationForm.doc
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
The syllabus is at:
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/syllabus311/
or
http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/syllabus507/
If you need to refer to
previous emails, but delete them, you can always go to this list
archive at:
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/esc311/
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
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/
Also be thinking about your
project. I've created a "GoPost" for students to coordinate forming
groups around similar topics of interest. Use the followign GoPost site:
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/robh/9580/
See you this Thursday.
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The address of this page online (must be connected to web) is http://soilslab.cfr.washington.edu/ESRM311/index.html
Instructor Rob Harrison
email: robh@u.washington.edu
218 Bloedel Hall
TA Paul Footen
email: pwf@u.washington.edu
214 Bloedel Hall
ESRM311/CFR507 is designed to get students into the field to learn
about Seattle area soils, properties, uses and abuses. We start by
learning about how soil was formed in the region and learning the
repeatable pattern of soil types in the landscape. We learn about soil
properties, and how those properties limit some reasonable land uses.
We
will see examples of uses that do not consider limitations of some
soils
and sites and the sometimes disasterous results.
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 #2, Soil Properties Lab (in
Bloedel 211) - Handout
Week #3, Field Trip #1 (Arboretum) - Handout
Week #4, Field Trip #2 (Burke-Gilman
Trail/Rob's House/CUH) - Handouts
and Extra Material
Week #5, Field Trip
#3 (Bellvue)
- Handouts and Extra Material
Week #6, Field Trip #5 (Sammamish Canyon,
Snoqualmie Valley) - Handout
Week #7, Field Trip #6 (Graduate
Student led
trips)
Week #8, In-Class
Presentation of Final Project
Week #9, In-Class
Presentation of Final Project