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San Francisco EstuaryHistory, Maps, and Watersheds
Category: Submerged, Intertidal, Wetland, and Upland Cost: $35,000 Description: It was recognized that the regional science planning effort and its extension into local watersheds had produced never-before-available information about local landscape change, which could be of potential value to local education. In collaboration with the Center for EcoLiteracy, the San Francisco Estuary Institute recruited a team of local teachers to help guide the translation of project data into useful materials for the classroom setting. This resulted in the development of packages of laminated maps designed to help visualize how the watershed surrounding each school has changed through time. Materials included early Spanish maps, geo-referenced early paintings and photographs, a modern aerial photographic base map, and maps showing change-through-time. The information was extremely popular with the teachers and students, and has been successfully tested in local classrooms. While of obvious social value, the effort is time-intensive for scientists and would benefit from an intermediary educational organization. Outcome: The project has been quite successful as a test case in the Wildcat Creek Watershed, receiving a Friends of the Estuary Award for implementation of the Estuary Project CCMP goals. Contact: Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute, (510) 231-5742, robin@sfei.org. Citation: www.sfei.org: see Historical Ecology Project |