This week I continued on a project with Teresea, the supervisor of the facilities operations. I helped her with mapping out the windows from the blueprints and marking what has already been done, so that it is easier for the contractors.

I made a spreadsheet in excel for the different areas of campus that needed the window film. I made different tabs for each area on campus and put in information like window height, window number, area off the ground. Things like that. So all of that new information will be sent to our contractors and they will add film to all the other windows.

The film on the windows is to help birds see that there is something there and not get confused with clear glass and fly into it. This is being test trailed on campus. These films have white dots two inches away from each other. This is because the birds will be able to clearly see white dots. The film has proven to be extremely effective to prevent bird death on campus.

That project was the main thing that I worked on this week since it has been raining all week. I also watered the plants on the living wall by the totem poll.

Another project I worked on was cleaning up after a fallen sycamore tree fell on a walking path near one of the lodges. This tree, interestingly enough, had no root ball. So it just needed weather like this to help allow it to fall over. This could be that the tree canopy, while it was growing, made it so that it relied on the trees around it for structure, so it did not need a strong anchor in the ground.

-- Allie Page