2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/26/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Thinking and Acting Globally and Locally in an Online Water Resource Management Course | Virtual Platform
Thinking and Acting Globally and Locally in an Online Water Resource Management Course
Water resources are a global and local issue, requiring knowledge and action at both scales. I re-designed the Water Resource Management course at Alaska Pacific University (APU) to focus on a local watershed (the Eklutna) as a case study. Students used high-frequency water quality sensor data collected in the Eklutna Watershed in course problem sets. Collaborating with WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography, students edited Wikipedia articles about local and global topics, giving them an opportunity to practice their scientific communication skills, and resulting in an improvement to a global encyclopedia. Students also attended a Technical Working Group meeting, which includes representatives from academia, federal and state agencies, tribal governments, and non-profits, where we discussed a draft study plan for a recent dam removal in the Eklutna. Thus, students saw the consensus-building needed to solve local issues firsthand. The course culminated with students designing online educational materials about the Eklutna Watershed for 4th graders in the Anchorage School District in collaboration with the a local federal science center. Overall, students engaged with water resource management in multiple dimensions, as scientists, decision makers, educators, and communicators, both locally and in a global context.
- Inclusivity
- Adaptive management
- Career
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Erin Larson
(), Alaska Pacific University, ern.larson@gmail.com;
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