SEYS Calendar (tentative)

Mon 6/4 Tue 6/5 Wed 6/6 Thu 6/7 Fri 6/8
  • 9:00 - Arrive NKU. Welcome!
  • Introductions - activities of the day
  • Your lab notebook/ vocabulary list
  • Icebreaker
  • Computer accounts: username and password
  • 10:00 - Hands on computers - Text Editing, and HTML
Lunch - 11:30-12:30 (passed through NKU steam tunnels!)
  • 12:30 - Hands on computers - Refining Your Homepage
  • Review/Preview of tomorrow's activities/ Journal/ Snack
  • 3:00 - Depart NKU.
  • Take home: Your Home Page!
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Hands on web time
  • Yellowstone video - GIS - show and tell
  • Environmental Science - Costa Rican example
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • World Map Exercise - Keystroke Guide (handout)
  • Snack/Review Session
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Create image from map for web page
  • the Ganges river - science and policy
  • Classification of images of Covington
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Continuation of classification
  • ArcView exercise: Covington map
  • Snack/Review Session/ Preview Speaker
  • Take home: Covington map
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • 9:30 Speaker: Marti Sinclair, National Environmental Justice Committee
    Topic: Environmental Justice
  • Populating tables (classification, cont.)
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Speaker: Scott Fennell, ERMC, Brownfields (with data help from Sean)
  • Woburn article handout
  • Snack/Review Session/ Preview Speaker
  • Take home: Additional maps
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Speaker: Steve James
  • Drainage layer (watersheds of Kenton county)
  • Map on Website
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Student Comments
  • 1:00 Team Building (Carol Ryan)
  • Website work
  • Snack/Review Session/ Preview Speaker
  • Take home: Enhanced website

Mon 6/11 Tue 6/12 Wed 6/13 Thu 6/14 Fri 6/15
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • "Brownfields of Covington" worksheet
  • Web Scavenger Hunt
  • Speaker and lunch guest: Jim Hansel, Cinci Civic Gardens: Urban Green Space
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Trip to an on-campus bio-remediation site, led by Barry Dalton
  • Web page time
  • Snack/Review Session/ Preview Speaker
  • Take home: New web page
  • 9:00 Tour of Covington Brownfields with Ella Fry, Covington's Economic Development Director.
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • GPS lat/longs of brownfield sites added to coverage
  • Digital photos to web
  • Snack/Review Session/ Preview Speaker
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Web development
  • Speaker: Marc Hult. Topic: Watershed issues (with Susan Fruitticher)
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Phytoremediation worksheet and current events
  • Web development
  • Snack/Review Session
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Susan's morning exercise routine
  • Environmental Justice video "Laid to Waste"
  • Exercise and role playing
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Campus Tour, with admissions (NKU T-Shirt!)
  • Aerial ortho-photo of Covington streets layer
  • Snack/Review Session
  • Review/Preview of day's activities/ Snack
  • Students write SEYS essay
Lunch - 11:30-12:30
  • Obtaining Census data demo
  • Investigation of Census info
  • Print up poster-sized maps
  • Workshop Closure Ceremony, Certificates
  • Take home: Electronic and hardcopy map atlas; website!


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