Category Archives: Field Trips

SUST 390 Writing Urban Nature (May 2017)

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Michael Bryson

For more details, check out the course preview page here! Please share this poster/link far and wide (pdf).

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Writing Urban Nature: A One-Week Intensive Summer Course in Chicago, May 18-22

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Michael Bryson

Still plenty of room in this new one-week-intensive summer course! Pre-session is next Wed., May 6th, at 4:3pm in Gage 218. For more detailed information on my summer intensive course, check out this Writing Urban Nature preview; and share a pdf version of … Continue reading →

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Sustainability and Biodiversity at the Field Museum

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Michael Bryson

Last Monday, as a warm 60+ degree (F) day enveloped downtown Chicago in a splendid preview of spring, my students and I hiked from Roosevelt’s Gage Building in the Loop to the lakefront, where we strolled southward to that great … Continue reading →

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SUST 390 “Writing Urban Nature” Course Preview (Summer 2015)

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Michael Bryson

This May 2015 one-week-intensive section of SUST 390 Writing Urban Nature is an environmental literature and writing special topics course distinguished by in-the-field explorations of various natural and urban environments. The class provides a unique immersive experience in “nature close at hand” at … Continue reading →

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Encountering the Wild: Meditations and Musings from Crested Butte, Colorado

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Michael Bryson

This past September, I joined a group of writers convened by Gavin Van Horn (of the Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago) and John Hausdoerffer (a professor at Western State Colorado University and the director of WSCU’s Headwaters Project) for a much-anticipated … Continue reading →

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CIMBY Students Visit RU Campus and Tour Stearns Quarry Park

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Michael Bryson

Last month I had the great fortune of playing host at Roosevelt’s Chicago Campus to a terrific group of Chicago Public High School kids from the far South Side — the Calumet region, specifically — for a sustainability-themed tour of … Continue reading →

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Snow on the Ground, Water on the Mind

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Michael Bryson

Last Saturday, Feb. 23, my SUST 220 Water students (both past and present) joined me at a wonderful annual event here in the Windy City: the Chicago River Student Congress, convened by the environmental conservation organization Friends of the Chicago … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Fall 2012 SUST Graduates!

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Michael Bryson

Last Friday marked the graduation of several Sustainability Studies majors at Roosevelt: Alexandra Bishay, Jessie Crow Mermel, Kenton Franklin, Keith Nawls, Jeff Wasil, and Joe Zambuto. These former undergraduates walked across the famed Auditorium Theater stage in downtown Chicago to … Continue reading →

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Canoeing the Upper North Branch of the Chicago River

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Michael Bryson

This past Saturday, students in my SUST 220 Water and PLS 391 Natural Science seminars at Roosevelt University joined me for an urban ecology adventure on the Upper North Branch of the Chicago River. We convened mid-morning at Linné Woods, … Continue reading →

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Assessing Water Quality on the Chicago River’s North Branch at West River Park

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Michael Bryson

Saturday, Sept. 8th, was the first day of class for my Sustainability Studies 220 Water seminar at Roosevelt University. Instead of staying inside our classroom all day, though, we took advantage of excellent late-summer weather here in Chicago to take … Continue reading →

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