Hope-Elena Sardella

Should economic factors “make” or “break” the approval for a project?

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May, 2019 Recently, I have been challenged with a very personal question: Should economic factors “make” or “break” the approval for a project? My answer is that economic factors can prevent the support for a project, not that it should. I find this a very personal question because it requires us as […]

The Nation Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May, 2019 When the Nation Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was ratified on January, 1st 1970, the policy was underestimated in how revolutionary this policy would be to the United States, by way of creating the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), and more importantly the creation of environmental impact reports (Alm, A., 1988). […]

Conservation Management & Repairing our Wilderness in America

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May, 2019 <p class="has-drop-cap" value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">As the conservation manager, I would like to commence my time here with significant challenges to further repair the wilderness. I suggest to the planning office to look towards uniting forest patches that are isolated by bringing together parkways near roads and riparian forest […]

In Situ & Ex Situ Defined

By Hope Sardella, May, 2019 In Situ defines the act of preserving a species in the native origin or location from which the individual derived from. In conservation efforts in situ aims to protect species diversity as well as assist in the regeneration attributed to achievable repopulation goals of biodiversity in their native home, thus […]

Biodiversity Defined

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May 21 .2019   Biodiversity is a recent discipline in the creation and was initially coined by Edward O. Wilson to define natural resources that are alive and of biological makeup in the structure; Furthermore, the term allows for there to be monetary value and loss established for the natural resource (deFur, […]

Evaluation of the Alaskan Shorebird Conservation Plan

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May 21, 2019, ENV350: Conservation Biology Shorebirds are often referred to as ‘waders’; are derived from the Charadriiformes order; a seafaring species of birds. By right of birth, the marine bound birds are designed for extended migratory travel in which through the shorebirds long journeys during migration and breeding season, shorebirds will […]

ENV350 – Week 1

By Hope- Elena Sardella Questions: • “How has Earth’s biological diversity changed over the past 600 millionyears?” Answer: Through the progression of time, in specification; the preceding six millionyear until now, have demonstrated revelatory phenomenon’s in the expansion ofspecies diverseness. • How does species richness vary in latitude? Latitude gradients regarding specific species richness is […]

Biological diversity in species development

By Hope-Elena Sardella, May 21, 2019 Biological diversity in species development are of important interest when demonstrating changes in conditions of the environment. One can find answers to temporal changes by reviewing the development of species on a large timescale or successional timescale, which analyzes the distribution of species and the quantity of a species […]

Baroque (1600-1740)

The early origins of the Baroque art period can be traced back to the early sixteen hundred until around seventeen forty. The Baroque art movement was led by the idea of bringing back the style of the renaissance (Baroque.1996). Rome was one of the leading patrons of the Baroque movement, subsequently The Catholic’s use of […]

Annucation, Leonardo da Vinci, 1472-1475, Oil and tempera on panel

The painting Annunciation is a depiction of a biblical story in the Bible in the book Luke. 1.26-39 The two subjects within the painting are said to be the angel Gabrial to the left, he is kneeling before the said to be virgin Mary, who is greeting Gabriel with a similar gesture of raising her […]