Citywalk geopdfs
2023 aerial and surficial geology for the Blackwell tour To kick off our 2024 summer of Blackwell walks, here’s a…
2024 | Richard Carstensen | two geopdfs, 11 and 19 MB
Resources for our downtown high school
Downtown schools from Brave Outlier, the 160-foot spruce in foreground. Y=Yada.at Kalé; Y&M=Yaakoosgé-Daakahídi&Montessori; H=Harborview. This is how beautiful face sees us.
Oct-17th Rather belatedly, I’m adding a page for beautifully-adorned face (JDH), on the occasion of STEAM-2022, the 3-day gathering of educators from Áak’w & T’aakú Aaní and beyond. Steve Merli and I, with guidance from his wife Pam, a conference organizer, added some fresh-air components to the dozens of lectures and breakout-sessions.
I live about 4 raven-flaps uphill from Yadaa.at Kalé, so beautiful face is my playground and laboratory. There is so much potential for outdoor education from this and sister-schools, arrayed side-by-side toward Dzanti-Sayéik bridge, in background of this aerial.
To downtown teachers: with, say, 20-or-30-minutes’ heads-up, I could probably meet you and your class on the way past my street to Flume Trail or Brave Outlier. Extra points for weather-window-watchers and spontaneity! I spend way too much time in front of this computer and would be grateful to be yanked out the door on your tree-hugging or goating adventure.
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Escape to ‘beautiful face’
Outdoors with teachers Yadaa.at Kalé means beautifully adorned face, of slopes rising northeast from the highschool named for them (JDH).…
Mass wasting finale
In class—our penultimate Wednesday—we reviewed Bay&Valley day, and then transitioned to the concluding Saturday field trip focusing on ‘serious-stuff-coming-downhill.’ For…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | Landforms class archives
Avalanche mapping
Releases in Nettleslide (Behrends path) & Last Chance Goatwatching in winter leads inevitably to fascination with avalanches. Yesterday, Feb 12,…
2022 | Richard Carstensen |
Autumn Goatlandia
Rainforest rut Last fall I described elements of rutting season in mountain goats, but did not attempt a comprehensive review.…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 9 minute slideshow
Dzisk’w liu kaadi: little owl snowslide
Avalanches in Goatlandia Yesterday (20210304), avalanches were triggered above the Thane Road runout on Snowslide Creek. Several folks posted impressive…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 80-second slideshow
Nature near the schools 1991: Downtown Schools powerpoint
Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series Discovery Southeast was born at Harborview Elementary, under the tuteladge of master-teachers…
1991 | Carstensen, Streveler & Pohl | workshop materials
Cemetery mapping, 1990-2017
College-level field mapping in elementary school Probably the most ambitious project undertaken in my pilot Nature Studies program at Harborview,…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 46 pages
Blackwell City Walk: info packet
Another great idea from Mike 2019: Cathy Connor and I (Richard Carstensen) have inherited a tradition spearheaded by our friend…
2019: updated 2024 | Mike Blackwell, Richard Carstensen & Cathy Connor | info packet and navigational geopdfs
Geopdfs Gold geology
High-resolution GeoPDF pair for field navigation in Dzantik’i Héeni (Gold Creek) watershed. In apps such as Avenza, on your phone…
2019 | Richard Carstensen | 2 geopdfs
2001 summer newsletter, Gold Creek solstice: field notes from the crest of the year
On the solstice, I walked the Flume Trail above Dzantik’i Héeni, flounders creek (Gold Creek). Enamored of my newest tool—a…
Summer 2001 | Richard Carstensen | 4 pages
Dzantik’i Héeni delta historical series
Seawalk: Rehabilitating our waterfront. 2013: To evaluate change along the shoreline proposed for a seawalk, I georeferenced a series of…
2013: updated 2022 | Richard Carstensen | 22 pages