Ilona Chadwick's blog for Geography

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Fauna of Palau Website

It's finally done! This was a group effort. My main contributions were building the website, formatting everything, and creating all of the graphics, as well as proof-reading and fact-checking the written portions.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Alternative Renewable Energy Presentation

This is actually a group project, but I can take credit for coming up with the ideas for the research topics and polishing up and putting together everyone's slides. The project is a presentation on "Alternative Renewable Energy," or forms of renewable energy other than the traditionally thought of solar, wind and water.



Click here to see the presentation on Google Docs!

La Brea Tar Pits Research Project

I had a lot of fun writing this paper on the tar pits of La Brea for my California class. In the essay, I explore the significance and history of the tar pits, in science and popular culture past and present.


Click here to see the paper on Google Docs!

STELLA Coursework

In my Environmental Modeling class, I learned how to use STELLA software to create stock and flow models like this one, which simulates the amount of water in Mono Lake after diversion of water for use in Southern California began.


The visual structure of the model, and a graph of the results:




The equation sheet, which demonstrates how the variables are related:

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