2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/24/2018 | 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | LEAF-PACKS AND ARTISTS: NURTURING ANALYSIS AND OUTREACH | 320
LEAF-PACKS AND ARTISTS: NURTURING ANALYSIS AND OUTREACH
In the last decade RISD has developed a diversity of science electives for students of the arts—created for students with little academic background in the sciences, but with major interest and visual/spatial skillsets. I present four years of data on the modified leaf-pack experiments we do in my course, Urban Ecology: How Wildlife Interacts with an Urbanizing Landscape, with accompanying outreach materials designed by the students. The entire process of collecting and processing the data at two sites along one of RI’s major rivers—one urban, one semi-rural—is done by the whole class. Small groups conduct their own spatial analysis of the surrounding land-use—depending upon each group’s consensus on how to categorize land-use and how to quantify it—with or without any technological tools. They consider the biological and spatial data together to form a hypothesis and ultimately a conclusion about the impacts of land-use on adjacent aquatic communities. The BIV is usually higher and %EPT is generally lower at the more urban site. Students also create outreach infographics for the watershed council to use, based on what they have observed and learned from the experience.
- Education
- Communication
- Outreach
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Maria Aliberti Lubertazzi
(), Rhode Island School of Design, malibert@risd.edu;
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