Meghann Jarchow

Unit 3.2: Presentation and Reflection part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, the student groups organized at the end of Unit 3.1 will prepare presentations representing different stakeholder positions. This artifact—Part I of the Module Summative Assessment (Microsoft ...

Unit 3.1: Land-Use Change and Stakeholders part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
The example of a proposed land-use change that was used in Unit 2.3 is built upon here. The activities in this unit are meant to broaden the discussion beyond calculating quantitative run-off changes. Now we will ...

Unit 1.1: Mapping Ecosystem Services part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, students are introduced to the concept of ecosystem services, provided with a tool for exploring these services in particular landscapes, and led through a few examples so that they will be ...

Unit 1.2: Exploring the Hydrologic Cycle part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, students focus on ecosystem services specifically related to the hydrologic cycle. Using rainfall-runoff data for a small watershed in Ohio, students are introduced to the technical vocabulary ...

Unit 1.3: Understanding Perturbations to Hydrologic Systems part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, students examine the impact of land use on runoff. Using rainfall-runoff data for two small watersheds in Ohio, one dominated by agricultural land uses and the other dominated by urban land uses, ...

Unit 2.2: Mitigation Using Low Impact Development (LID) Controls part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, students model the impact of changes in land cover on stormwater runoff using the EPA's National Stormwater Calculator. Students mitigate increased stormwater runoff resulting from ...

Unit 2.3: Modeling Land-Use Change and Mitigation Strategies part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
In this activity, students model the impact of a proposed land-use change for a local site using the EPA's National Stormwater Calculator (Calculator). Given a description of the proposed land-use change, ...

Using concept mapping to experientially introduce systems thinking part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Activities
This activity uses concept mapping as a tool for students to experience the complexity that is inherent in many sustainability-related issues.

Systems and Solutions Certificate Program Details part of STEM Futures:Product Elements
Describes the Systems and Solutions Certificate at University of South Dakota, which is designed to prepare students to use systems thinking and STEM tools to model complex systems and to use design thinking to innovate and iterate toward solutions within these complex systems.

Meghann Jarchow: Using An Ecosystems Services Approach to Water Resources in Sustainability and Society at University of South Dakota part of An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources
Using models to frame public discussions My course is one of two introductory, core courses for a sustainability major and minor. The course focuses on the environmental aspects of sustainability and is taught using team-based learning methods. My goals for the course include teaching students how to use some of the many scientific tools that have been developed for the public and teaching students how to translate the output from those tools into forms that can be used to effect positive environmental change. This module was an effective way to combine these two goals.

University of South Dakota - Sustainable Rivers: Integrating Earth Science and Sustainability Across the Curriculum part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:University of South Dakota
The Sustainable Rivers program worked to increase student understanding of and interest in Earth science and sustainability by spreading sustainability content from InTeGrate throughout the undergraduate curriculum ...