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All About Wetlands: A Virtual Field Trip to Freshkills Park

DATE AND TIME: Jun 25, 2020 2:00pm

Wetlands are an amazing ecosystem and are home to birds, fish, plants, and animals. Join the Freshkills Park Alliance for a virtual field trip to Freshkills Park. We will learn about wetland ecosystems and meet some of the species that call wetlands home.

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Rio Bosque Wetlands Park Tour

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Rio Bosque Wetlands Park

-is a 372-acre City of El Paso park the University of Texas at El Paso manages through its Center for Environmental Resource Management.

Located in southeast El Paso county near the town of Socorro, Texas, Rio Bosque is enclosed by irrigation canals and drains on three sides, and the western boundary of the park lies adjacent to the Rio Grande, which forms the international border between the U.S. and Mexico in this area.

Since 1997, several local entities including: the City of El Paso, El Paso Water, El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, Ducks Unlimited, the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, UTEP, and the Friends of the Rio Bosque have worked tirelessly to restore this historical floodplain.

Slowly in some areas, more rapidly in others, native vegetation is reclaiming this wonderfully rich mosaic of habitats characteristic of the Rio Grande and its floodplain in pre-settlement days.

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Follow along this tour and immerse yourself into this unique wetland and riparian ecosystem. You can follow along in-person at the park, or virtually through your device.

If you are visiting the park, be sure to park at the second parking area along the levee. This will ensure you begin at correct trailhead on this virtual/self guided tour.

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• The park is open from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week.
• Be sure to wear proper clothing and foot attire according to the time of year you visit the park. During the monsoon season, mosquitos are quite abundant, so be prepared.
• Bring enough water to drink as the park does not have drinking water available.
• Park managers try to maintain the trails, however, there may be times that brush may overgrow into the trail; please navigate as best as you can while staying on the trail whenever possible.
• As part of efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic, please keep your group size small when you visit, stay at least 6 feet apart from one another, and wear a mask when encountering other visitors.

When visiting the park, we ask that you leave nothing but your footprints and only take your pictures and memories with you. Please do your part to help keep our park clean and safe.

For more information about the park, visit: https://www.utep.edu/cerm/rio-bosque/rio-bosque-home.html

This tour was created with funding provided by EPA grant #NE-01F54901-0.

For questions or more information regarding this virtual tour, contact Dr. Jennifer Ramos-Chavez, [email protected]

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Before cities there were swamps. Wetlands and swamps globally have been sacrificed to pave the way for housing, agriculture and industry. Urban developers and dwellers have largely overlooked the vital role that swamps play in buffering storms, capturing carbon, fostering life and filtering water .

One of the biggest threats to swamps today is a lack of understanding of swamps’ role in human survival. This is especially true in South Florida, home to the Everglades, one of the largest swamps in North America, and the site of a huge and expensive wetland restoration project .

In a time of climate emergency, it is especially important to listen and learn from the swamps around us. But what if you don’t live near a swamp?

I spent a semester as the visiting Knight Chair at the Center for Communication, Culture and Change at the University of Miami , teaching a production course in interactive documentary and the Everglades. As a filmmaker and teacher who is invested in participatory processes, my goal was to explore media methods to promote what I’ve come to think of as swamp literacy.

Over several months, I worked in collaboration with university students, community organizations, biologists and co-directors Kim Grinfeder and Juan Carlos Zaldivar. We developed SwampScapes, a multi-platform documentary that involved a 13-minute Virtual Reality (VR) film , a Swamp Symphony , and a study guide . For those who could not access the VR film, we shot video portraits that can be viewed online.

We were curious to explore how we could use VR to cultivate care about a site that is inaccessible to most people. Our idea was to create a virtual field trip for youth with no means or interest in wading through a swamp.

Part of the appeal of the virtual field trip was to mitigate the impact of visitors on the ecosystems we were trying to protect . We wanted to democratize VR by creating stories informed by environmental justice and participatory methods.

Shared input

A central challenge guiding the project was how we might make the process as meaningful as the final product.

We were inspired by activist David Bollier’s articulation of “commoning” as a method where people foster social connections with each other and with nature to challenge the competitive logic of the market economy and its focus on resource extraction. His analysis draws on ideas about protecting and interacting with resources that people depend on and share in common .

Media scholars Patricia Zimmerman and Helen De Michiel describe participatory documentaries as an open space where diverse forms of engagement can emerge to expand the public commons .

To start our own process of media commoning , I asked students to identify a personal goal, skills they might contribute and their hopes for impact.

This simple exercise helped to establish that the project would be shaped by our shared input, the people we met in the field and the research we developed as a group.

Kyle Powys Whyte and Matt Ferkany, professors of philosophy and education at Michigan State University, advocate for the need to integrate participatory virtues such as fairness, empathy, humility or compromise into environmental education. I wanted my students to gain experience in collaborative problem solving and negotiating differences.

‘Shimmering waters’

Environmental justice speaks to the power imbalances in environmental struggles. It’s a framework that encourages people to think through critical questions like: “Whose perspectives are included in a media project?”

Anishinaabe scholar Deborah McGregor suggests that in addition to considering power imbalances between people, we must also rethink our relationships to other beings . In a VR film, place itself becomes a lead protagonist, so our challenge was to limit human narration and to let users experience the place’s presence.

We wanted to ensure that if we were hosting a virtual field trip or teleporting visitors to a fragile, sacred or faraway place, that we were careful about how a user entered the space.

We relied on the concept of guides, people with deep relationships to the place, to situate the user in a respectful way. Seven guides worked with us including algae specialist Larry Brand, raptor biologist Donna Molfetto, and Miccosukee educator and water activist Betty Osceola.

Betty explained:

“It’s important to me to help people who visit the Everglades to understand and connect with the Everglades, but also to understand my culture.”

From audience to community

Throughout the process, we tried to be self-reflexive about the intended and unintended impacts our project might have. By developing a virtual field trip to cultivate swamp awareness were we inadvertently encouraging students to be more interested in screens rather than getting outside to explore local landscapes?

Virtual field trips aren’t a replacement for outdoor education and technology alone does not help to cultivate care. While VR documentary projects have potential for education they can also be associated with new forms of consumerism, spectacle or electronic waste. Acknowledging entanglements is a necessary part of critical media literacy.

Our SwampScapes project is taking a new direction as we begin outreach.

We have shared our project with 85 Grade 8 students in Miami as part of their biology curriculum and we hope to reach more students.

This summer we attended the Climate Story Lab , a workshop where producers of environmental media and climate change experts explored how to transform audiences into communities to foster climate awareness.

We not only want to cultivate care about swamps — we also want to build our capacity for collaborative education.

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The Development of Virtual Tour Interface for a Wetland Park by Using Unity Technologies

James Alexander Gordon on 28th May 2019

This research focuses digital interface with content for the virtual tour of a wetland park located in Dashu district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The development of the virtual tour commenced from field survey to investigation detail geographic and culture features. Next, a series of 3D models including traditional brick-based architectures and landscape were built into a virtual space. In addition, some biological features of the wetland such as insects and plans were added to increase the atmosphere. Reinforced with Unity technology, this virtual park allows users to walk-through within the computer monitor by the keyboard control. Then interface is modified for the use of HTC Vive, which demonstrates textures of buildings and undulate landscape in detail, providing realistic feeling to the users. On the other hand, this interface also provides small games in the theme, which are digitized experience including traditional as bricks stacking for online customization and brick making process for a virtual kiln within the wetland park. With 3D rotatable view and interactive simulation, many users experienced the virtual park and provided positive finding and advises This has proved this virtual tour interface is an effective form of cultural heritage.

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The Development of Virtual Tour Interface for a Wetland Park by Using Unity Technologies

This research focuses digital interface with content for a virtual tour of a wetland park located in Dashu district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The development of the virtual tour commenced with a field survey to investigate in detail geographic and culture features. Next, a series of 3D models including traditional brick-based architectures and landscape were built into a virtual space. In addition, some biological features of the wetland such as birds and plants were added to increase the atmosphere. Reinforced with Unity technology, this virtual park allows users to walk-through within the computer monitor by mean of the keyboard control. The interface demonstrates textures of buildings and the undulating landscape in detail, providing realistic feeling to the users. On the other hand, this interface also includes digitized historical buildings including traditional brick kilns and an iron bridge within the wetland park. With 3D rotatable view and interactive simulation, many users exp...

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• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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