Tag: science–art
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Putah Creek Fishes: A Class Gyotaku Project
By Christopher M. Dewees . . . On a crisp and sunny November morning last fall, along the shores of Putah Creek, a group of students quickly dropped their beach seining net when it was suddenly filled with returning adult salmon (which were immediately released!). That moment would have been unimaginable in the 1990s. Putah…
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Getting Our Feet Wet: Bringing Photography Students into the Yolo Bypass
By Eliza Gregory . . . The first time I heard the phrase “flood-based ecosystem,” I was in New South Wales, and I was confused. I was on a 4000 km drive around the Murray Darling Basin, the largest watershed in Australia. I was with a group from Engineers Without Borders Australia, who luckily had an expansive idea of who would be fun to have along (shout out to Claire…