Late Friday afternoon, I had a great chat with Simon about the Threatened Aquatic Ecosystems module and some of my ideas for the module in the 2013-14 academic year. I brought up the idea of considering the entire Plym catchment area as a whole(as the Water Framework Directive does) and build a module like the 'Land Use and Water Quality Issues of Puget Sound' course I took at UW back in 2002. It was a fantastic course and I learned so much by seeing and doing rather than just being trapped in a lecture hall every day. It would be great to start at the top of the catchment and work our way down, similar to the Masters module led by Gillian Glegg that I took back in Autumn 2007. I would really like to visit the waste treatment plant with the students as that left a huge impression on me in Seattle. Simon thought all of this sounded like a great idea! And to me, it makes much more sense to run a module like this... you know, joined up thinking, rather than visiting two sites (upper and lower) on the Plym with the students writing practically identical reports for both assessments.
Simon also said that he has been receiving very positive feedback about Manuela and I from the students. Now that is GREAT NEWS and definitely something to be happy about. :-)
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