Arriving at the upper boundary of our mapping area. Finnmark. Boreal moor in the foreground with the Øksfjordjøkelen glacier visible in the distance. Reflections on field mapping for the Norwegian Ecological Basemap Project Written by Øystein Kristiansen ’17 In […]
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by Madeleine Charney ’03 and Angela Kearney ’03 To Witness and Stabilize The winter of 2018 was setting in and Class of 2003 graduates Angela Kearney and Madeleine Charney were both facing a host of daunting tasks. Angela led a […]
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by Theresa Sprague ’08 The following article was originally published in the September 2017 newsletter of our partner organization, the Ecological Landscape Alliance. Over the past seven years, the team at BlueFlax Design LLC has managed a multitude of landscapes degraded […]
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This piece was published in the 2017 issue of con’text magazine. The Eagle Mountain Railroad tracks, pictured above, are an example of a built-environment historical resource that was included in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan cultural resources sensitivity model […]
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The following piece was published as a perspective in the 2017 issue of con’text. Willa Caughey ’14 (left, at a rooftop garden in Copenhagen), finished an MLA at the University of Copenhagen in September 2016. The image above is a section of a […]
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This piece, by Robbin Peach ’78, was featured in the 2017 issue of con’text magazine. Image above: The parking lot at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts has succumbed to storm surges over the years. The town plans to rebuild […]
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The following piece, with a selection from the collection of photos, is published in the 2017 issue of con’text. Costa Rica: The name conjures images of rich dense vegetation spilling down hills to pristine beaches, but these landscapes are threatened. With […]
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Tim is a current student and member of the class of 2017. This essay was inspired by his work with GIS during the winter term, where student projects are larger, planning scale projects. For their winter term project, Time and his classmate Andrew […]
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The shimmering, melting landscape of the Quabbin Reservoir on the cover of our upcoming 2017 issue of con’text magazine (shown in full, above, and to the right as the cover of con’text) was taken by Margot Halpin ’16, while on a […]
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Helmi Hunin ’16 is one of several Conway alums who have taken advantage of a partnership between Conway and the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Waitsfield, VT, that includes a Conway scholarship for Yestermorrow graduates, and discounts on Yestermorrow courses for […]
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