Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Spring 2011/Regional Planning and Design (Bruce Sharky)

Course description
This is a graduate-level seminar within Landscape Architecture. Students will explore natural landscape systems and processes, how they work, what they do, how they change over time and in space, and how they effect change of other elements and systems that make up the natural environment.

Assignment overview
Students will select a phenomenon related to coastal erosion and/or wetland loss as the focus of their research project. Students will investigate how their selected phenomenon works and develop original, appropriate informative graphics to support current Wikipedia articles focused on their topic. The objective of the Wikipedia portion of this course is solely focused on contributions of original artwork to enhance the explanation of natural phenomena related to coastal erosion and wetland loss.

Assignment timeline
Week 2: Introduction to Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Uploading Images

Students
This is a list of LA7004 students' Wikipedia usernames and links to their respective Wikipedia articles on which they will be working. Please use the discussion page to upload drafts of your images and receive feedback.


 * Xue Bai - image link / article: River delta
 * Devon Boutte - image link / article: Mississippi River Delta
 * Lucas Frey - image link / article:Ecological succession
 * Yue Guan - image link / article: Atmospheric circulation
 * Yuting Jiang - image link / article: Wetlands of Louisiana
 * Jia Li - image link / article:Fire ecology
 * Spencer McNab - image link / article: Cloud Seeding
 * Michael Petty - image link / article: Subsidence
 * Peter Summerlin - image link / article: Salinity
 * Hui Tian - image link / article: Saltwater intrusion
 * Chase Williston - image link / article: Human-wildlife conflict
 * Kyle Jacobson - image link /article: Dead zone (ecology)

Campus Ambassadors
The Campus Ambassador for this course is Dylan Staley and Rebecca Burdette.