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Journaling Situational Awareness, Weather, and Nature’s Unfolding Stories (Apr. 11, 2024)

Miriam Morrill, author of Pyrosketchology: An Illustrated Guide to Observing and Journaling about the Fire Environment, gives an introduction and examples to journaling wind observations for enhancing situational awareness (personal safety planning) and examples for using temperature and humidity metadata for observing the intimate relationships and between weather and phenology (unfolding nature stories). Class session of 11 April 2024.

To find Miriam’s book, please visit your online bookstore: https://bookshop.org/p/books/pyrosketchology-an-illustrated-guide-to-observing-and-journaling-about-the-fire-environment-miriam-h-morrill/21267979?ean=9798990107106

See Miriam’s recent interview with Yvea Moore on “Be the Change: Stewardship in the Nature Journal Community”: https://youtu.be/9UCq_jIG7Y8?si=bZFY35MKfbHXaQpM

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