Robert Turner

Unit 2: Water Footprints part of Water, Agriculture, Sustainability
Unit 2 opens a window into water accounting and reveals intensive water use that few people think about. How much water goes into common commodities? Have you considered how much water it takes to support our ...

Unit 1: What is Sustainability in the Context of Water? part of Water, Agriculture, Sustainability
In this three to four class unit, students will: Assess the case for a global water crisis and its relevance in America. Expand their understanding of sustainability as a contestable concept and movement. Consider ...

Water, Agriculture, and Sustainability part of Water, Agriculture, Sustainability
Water is the most critical substance for the sustenance of life, but the prognosis for the quality and supply of water resources in much of the world is somewhere between troubling and dire. This module provides a ...

Mapping Stormwater Runoff Infrastructure for the City of Bothell part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Term-long course activity for student groups to map the flow of stormwater runoff on newly developed or altered properties in and for the City of Bothell.

Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the County Level: A Collaborative Term Project to Enhance Understanding of Climate Modeling and Quantitative Reasoning part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
The general assignment is for the students to work as a team to quantify and map the variability in greenhouse gas emissions for the counties in Washington State. To accomplish this, students work in pairs ...

Using Debates to Engage Students in Sustainability Controversies and Conundrums part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
A primary feature of this "Water and Sustainability" course is a series of 10 debates on controversial sustainability topics. Each student in the course participates in one of the debates.

Robert Turner: Using the Water, Agriculture, and Sustainability Module in Water and Sustainability at University of Washington-Bothell Campus part of Water, Agriculture, Sustainability
Engaging Students in the Unsustainability of Water Use The generation and inclusion of the InTeGrate Module (Water, Agriculture, and Sustainability) in my Water and Sustainability course is another big step in its gradual evolution. It started as hydrology light, which was unsatisfactory for everyone involved. Over time the sustainability aspects of the course grew to the extent that it squeezed out the water focus. This prompted me to take the bulk of what the course had become and generate a new course (Principles and Controversies of Sustainability) so I could pivot back to water challenges and opportunities in this course.

Water and Sustainability part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course provides a framework for students to learn about sustainability as a cultural ideal and point of contention, and more specifically about our water future and ways we might define and achieve ...

What Are We Advocating For with Sustainability? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Earth Education for Sustainable Societies:Essays
This webpage is an academic essay advocating for transformative sustainability education in higher education, proposing a collective scientific warning and critical dialogue on defining sustainability, while addressing systemic educational reform, environmental literacy, and contested socio-political models for societal transformation.

The University of Washington Bothell Programs Relevant to Geoscience and Sustainability part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability:Essays
A participant essay page from the InTeGrate project detailing the University of Washington Bothell's interdisciplinary environmental programs, focusing on the integration of geoscience and sustainability through its Environmental Studies and Environmental Science degrees, curriculum design challenges, faculty initiatives, and field-based learning opportunities.

BA Environmental Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability:Programs
Program profile page for the BA in Environmental Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, detailing its interdisciplinary curriculum, two pathways (Sustainability & Society and Conservation Science & Management), core and elective course requirements, capstone portfolio, program goals, alumni career outcomes, and assessment methods within the context of sustainability and geoscience integration.

BS Environmental Science at the University of Washington-Bothell part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability:Programs
Program description page detailing the BS Environmental Science degree at the University of Washington-Bothell, covering curriculum design, prerequisites, core courses, pathway options (Conservation and Restoration Ecology; Earth System Science), capstone requirements, program goals, alumni career outcomes, and assessment methods within an interdisciplinary, sustainability-focused framework.

Fostering Sustainable Institutions: Engaging Our Universities in the Movement for Change part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Roundtable Discussions
Events of the past year and a half have highlighted, in many ways, that the socio-economic systems of our globalized culture are not sustainable. Education has always been at the forefront of catalyzing change and ...