Session 4/DL Colloquium/Summer A
May 30 - June 5
Sense of Place: Field Trip 3: The Water Cycle
For those of you who live in Southwest FL, take a look below for good field trip destinations. For those who live elsewhere in the state, check out the "Links" page in the website. Florida's DEP State Parks are found throughout the state. You can see what state park is closest to you by going to the State Park website. County parks are also good for "Field Tripping". Explore the local resources of your " bigger backyard". To meet field trip objectives, it would be best to find a park with a "user friendly" Cypress Slough. If you don't have a cypress swamp (slough) in your local area, visit a freshwater marsh, lake, stream, river, etc.
Choose a field trip site. Take a walk on the boardwalk, or nature trail.
Southwest Florida Field Trip Sites:
Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Sanctuary Road, Naples, Florida (941-348-9151) (entrance fee) ****highly recommended
CREW Land & Water Trust (Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed) 23998 Corkscrew Rd. Estero, FL 33928
Phone: 239-657-2253 Fax: 239-867-3230 E-mail: crewtrust@earthlink.net ***highly recommended but a remote area so bring a friend or family. Make sure to call before going, trails may be flooded.
Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Six Mile Cypress Parkway between Daniels Road and Colonial Blvd., Ft. Myers ($3.00 parking fee) ***highly recommended
Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium Ortiz Extension, Ft. Myers (just North of Colonial Blvd.) 275-3435 (entrance fee) (good for younger children)
Field Trip Objectives:
- make emotional and intellectual connections with the natural community that you are visiting. Go slow and soak in the sight and sounds.
- understand what a cypress slough (or other freshwater system) is and how it functions (there are good interpretive signs at most park locations).
- understand how water shapes FloridaŐs ecological communities
- understand the concept of a watershed and how interior wetland systems have a relationship to estuarine and marine communities
- recognize how subtle elevation changes in the topography may have profound influence on natural and human-made systems
- understand why these natural systems are critically important to our water supply and quality of life.
Make a journal entry of your field trip experience. (Revisit the Journal page in website.)
Email me a summary of your field experience and without writing a full scientific paper, describe your understanding of Florida's water cycle and the importance of cypress sloughs (or freshwater systems). You do not need to write more than a two page summary. Important!! Revisit the overview for Field Trips. This is due June 13th . I expect a full accounting of your experience AND respond as best you can to the Field Trip objectives (see above).
The first part of the assignment is to continue the reading of "State of the World 2005" begun last week for writing Paper 2
Internet Reading "OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT:
Things to consider when reading from the following websites:
1. What does "ecological footprint" mean?
2. What is meant by the term "carrying capacity"
3. What are the ramifications in Florida for the expansion of our human "ecological footprint."
4. What limits our "carrying capacity" in Florida?
5. What is meant by the term "fair earthshare"?
6. What is meant by "earth deficit."You can include some or all of these considerations in your paper.
Ecological Footprints of Nations How Much Nature Do They Use? -- How Much Nature Do They Have?
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/footprint/ You only need to read these pages from this website:
By: Mathis Wackernagel, Larry Onisto, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Ina Susana L—pez Falf‡n, Jesus MŽndez Garc’a, Ana Isabel Su‡rez Guerrero, Ma. Guadalupe Su‡rez Guerrero With comments and contributions by Gianfranco Bologna, Hazel Henderson, Manfred Max-Neef, Norman Myers, William E. Rees and Ernst Ulrich von WeizsŠcker
Click on foot to read and complete the activity "Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
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