Experience Engage Enable
T: Telephone02 9816 1298
During this Stage 6 geography excursion students plan and undertake adventurous fieldwork for a case study of the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest - an endangered ecological community and ‘ecosystem at risk’.
Information and data collected during the fieldwork addresses, or involves: spatial and ecological functioning of the ecosystem, analysis of environmental impact and management reports, identifying stakeholder roles and perceptions, cataloguing of human actions and their associated environmental impacts, identification of environmental stressors and processing these as examples of vulnerability and resilience in the ecosystem and a comparison of traditional and contemporary management practices.
Geographical skills and tools used include:
construction of a scaled cross-section, relating weather observations to MSLP synoptic charts, fieldwork workflow planning, use of geospatial vegetation data overlays, mapping, measurement of environmental factors within the spheres, recording and classification of human impact sites.
Maximum 2 classes per day.
address
220 Pittwater Road,
East Ryde NSW 2112
telephone 02 9816 1298
We’d like to acknowledge the Wallumedegal Peoples of the Darug Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we stand and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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