Human ecology

The Beat Making Lab travels to a prison in Gamboa, Panama, to team up with their innovative Rehabilitation Through Music initiative. By using everyday objects—water dripping into a bucket, the clicking of metal, or even their own voice—the DJs are able to create music in the most unlikely places.

Learn about a unique collaboration between the Surui tribe and Google Earth Outreach. The partnership, a result of Chief Almir Surui’s request that Google help raise visibility for his tribe, involves training the Surui people to use Internet technology to protect their forest, preserve their culture, and empower their people. Support Materials include a lesson guide and student handout.

Tate Cymbaluk of Williston shows a stretch of grassland that is being developed commercially and will one day include a highway bypass around the city of Williston. Leases for the commercial property are never signed for less than five years, proving that the boom will be in western North Dakota for quite a bit of time. Cymbaluk also says,"We're fortunate to have work, let alone to this magnitude. We've got to feel very blessed and very fortunate. We just have to keep reminding people of that."

Water pollution is the contamination of water resources by harmful wastes or toxins. This type of pollution can be dangerous to animals and plant populations in and around lakes, rivers, polluted groundwater areas or oceans, and can pose major problems for humans as well. Explore the detrimental effects of plastic waste pollution on the San Francisco Bay—specifically, mercury contamination, with this resource group from QUEST.