User talk:Kswager

=Week 1=

2 hours spent on learning about Wikipedia and playing in the sandbox. Created and account as well.

=Week 2=

1 hours spent reading over agriculture part of the report, read the general over view as well as the three possible outcomes. 1 hours writing up article for the page.

=Week 3=

Exam week Homework was to turn in diaries and decide to work on the Wiki page or write a paper. First though a paper would be nice to do, but after more though the Wiki sounded better than a formal paper. Joined the group that dealt with fisheries.

=Week 4= 1 hour spent reading the climate report about the fisheries, and coming up with questions that I had and want to find the answers to. Such as:
 * The report listed the loses to the fishery industry but what kind of money are they taking in currently?
 * The fisheries focused mainly on Salmon what kind of other industries are in Washington state that would make revenue?
 * What the difference between those other industries and Salmon industries?
 * Once all that is answered what is the impact of climate change going to be?

1.5 hours spent looking through Web of Science to find answer to question one from above. Some search words used included Climate Change, Pacific Northwest, Economics, Washington, Salmon fisheries, Invertebrate fisheries? Read several articles but search yield nothing that relevant to my question but some interesting studies to a fisheries person. Concluded that Web of Science probably is not the best place to get economic articles and things dealing with money.

=Week 5= 2.5 hours finding and reading and paper about Salmon fisheries and there projections to 2100. It caught my attention at the end of last week, decided to come back to it and see it what kind of projections are indicated for the salmon. Wanted tie in future predictions of a rather large fishery resource and see where it could be at in 92 years with climate change. After 50 some pages of fact the paper concludes that Salmon fishery are due to remain at low numbers despite restoration attempts. Restoring "natural" runs is more of a myth. There will be some variation in the due to natural process but there are not expected to recover to levels in the 1900's.

=Week 6= 2 hours spent on looking for total amount of revenue that fisheries brings in. Searching on Google scholar close things found was a figure for Norway of 145 million. U.S. has a larger fishing industry so the figure would have to be much higher. Some key words used were: Washington, Fisheries, Revenue, Market, industry. After search and reading many abstracts and two papers decided that I can't find it and to continue to look would yield fruitless results. Spent remain time starting to looks for climate changes on shellfish and it industries. It was not covered on the Wiki, so it might be something I could find and add.

=Week 7= 2.5 hours of searching and found a number for Shellfish Fisheries in Washington State in 2000. It was projected at 77 million in Washington State alone. Could not find a more resent figure. However other paper talk a lot about the greater demand for shellfish in coming year, so a positive. Most shellfish from Washington is farmed. Only concern is that the Harmful Alga blooms may increase in the future. In 2000 alone nearly 7 million dollars were lost to toxin alone.

=Week 8= 1 hour, only put in one hour on shellfish project this week because of busy schedule. Typed up a blurb on shellfish and emailed to a friend to read before putting it out on the web. My spelling and grammer is not quite web worth, wait for a response. Hoping to get that out next week.

=Week 9= 0.5 hours spent revising the edited copy. 2 hours spent find more information on harmful alga blooms and its effect on the fishery. In this search was not for numbers about how much it could be effected but rather to find evidence that with climate change the numbers of these harmful alga blooms would increase and cause the shellfish fisheries considerable harm. Was a lot of articles on this subject, in causal glances wasn't able to find any figures on how the fisheries were going to be affected money wise.

=Week 10= 1 hour-Posted the following information online... hopefully.

Washington State is a leading producer of shellfish in the western United States and Canada. In 2000 Washington’s out put of shellfish was near 89 million dollars, and this number was projected to grow []. With climate change, the shellfish industry is expected to fall. This is due to the increased number of harmful alga blooms. In almost 40 years since the first reported harmful alga bloom in Canada there has been an increase in reported incidents. This would have a negative impact on the shellfish. By means of bioaccumulation and biomagnification of demoic acid in the tissues render the shellfish unsafe for human consumption. It is unknown as to how much damage this will cause the shellfish industry in Washington State [].

1 hour spent reading the web page and learning more about Climate Change in washington, and enjoying our class project and the information on it.