by Hannah Dion-Kirschner | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Whew! Where did July go? Now that the excitement of splitting the sediment core has passed, the last couple weeks have been a bit of a blur of intensive sample processing. I wrote in my introductory post that lab work can often be monotonous. To be perfectly honest, I...
by Zaki Hussain | Jul 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
We have been busy trying to wrap up our research here. Towards the halfway mark, we had to revisit what we have done. Then, we decide on our angle for our long-form piece and documentary. We scheduled more face time with our subjects to get more material. Also, some...
by msz309 | Jul 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Throughout this summer, I’ve struggled with the following question: How can local food production spaces (e.g. urban/peri-urban farms, community farms/gardens*, and people’s home gardens) that don’t produce significant amounts of food (for individual households...
by amn331 | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
My survey and interview project is fully underway! At the start of this week, I worked with Dr. Phillips to further finalize all of my survey forms in Redcap, and at the end of the week I sent my first recruitment email to participants. I got so excited when the lab’s...
by msz309 | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
After racing in a giant circle across the Bangkok airport, accomplishing none of my wifi dependent tasks I hoped to do before my second (this) flight, I’ve finally just sat down at the same seat I got out of about half an hour. To clarify, my airport lap was not...
by Zaki Hussain | Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I met Fatima for the first time, she struck off as a lovely, graceful lady. At the same time, she managed to command respect from everyone at the Bonded Labour Liberation Front. Now, those are a few signs of a great leader. Fatima was very comfortable in front of...
