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AFTER THE FIRE: Wildfires and Soil Conservation
Enviado por nlucas o Dom, 30/09/2018 - 20:10
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS PROJECT: Raising environmental awareness on fire disturbances through Soil Painting Competition |
In October 2017, fueled by heat and wind conditions linked to hurricane Ophelia, a bout of wildfires raised public alarm as the number of human lives and material assets lost increased. To celebrate World Soil Day, and since this year’s theme, “Caring for the Planet starts from the Ground”, matched our goals, the Biology and Geology Department of IES Pontepedriña organized informative, research, and awareness activities. As a motivating and central activity, we organized an entry into the “Soil painting competition”. Through our entry we wanted to convey the destruction of vegetation and soil while at the same time emphasizing the post-fire efforts by several groups to mitigate its effects.
World Soil Day was the starting point for the project “After the Fire”, but we shifted the celebration to the 30 of November for organizational reasons. Previously, we had our event registered in FAO-WSD site. We had t have already On that day the mural would be painted in a visible area of the high school, surrounded by a photo exhibition that would be on display for several weeks. We also organized talks like “The wildfires in Galicia: a complex issue conditioned by unfounded opinions”, in which Rafael Zas discussed the environmental aspects and analysis of the causes of wildfires, and Gloria Bustingorri explained the organization of the post-fire tasks of volunteers. We organized two teams among the 14-15 year old students in their 3rd and 4th years of secondary school (E.S.O.). One of the teams, lead by Estela Pintos of the Art department, focused on preparing vegetable and soil-based pigments for the design of the mural and on its realization in a public space. A second team, led by Anxa Novo of the Technology department, was in charge of recording the process, including a time-lapse video of the making of the mural for the FAO competition. In addition, there was a third group of students who performed the music for the video. Besides the outings to gather soil samples for the pigments, which were among the preparatory activities that took place in November, we organized a field trip to the burned areas guided by forest researchers and forest rangers. Both teams learned about the issues related to wildfires, took pictures, held interviews and gathered ash and charcoal to be used in the making of the mural. After been awarded first prize in January, we completed additional awareness raising activities, highlighting the presentations by our award-winning students. The project is still going on, with additional activities scheduled for the next school year.
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IES PONTEPEDRIÑA's project is awarded first prize in FAO International Competition !!
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Web FAO - World Soil Day | Web FAO - Global Soil Partnership |
We gatecrash Ivy League, sharing podium with Cornell University! << |
* After the Fire_Despois do lume_(FAO-Pontepedriña) * |
WSD 2017 Events around the Globe in pictures (7 pages)
<<< VIDEO submitted to "SOIL PAINTING COMPETITION 2017" |
Award-winning picture (click to enlarge image) Painting process in a timelapse video >>
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Timelapse by Nicolás Lucas / Music by Pedro Lucas |
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THE PROJECT IN THE MEDIA - PUBLICATIONS
World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC) / Fire Impacts and Soil Painting: A Teaching Project, Hot News 02, 2018, pp.6-13 LandCare for the Future - Conference / Abstract / Book of Abstracts / Poster / |
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LA VOZ DE GALICIA (Local / regional NEWSPAPER)
TVG (GALICIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION, Regional) Telexornal mediodía (Midday News).
CORREO TV (local TELEVISION, newspaper-linked) News.
RADIO VOZ. (13/01/2018) Voces de Santiago (Local / regional RADIO STATION) SOCIAL MEDIA, summarized in this dossier on MEDIA IMPACT
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XUNTA DE GALICIA - REGIONAL GOVERNMENT of GALICIA Press releases in official sites
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Interview in RadioVoz-- (audio mp3) "Voces de Compostela", Thursday 18/01/2018 (from 1:41:53) |
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Midday News (Telexornal) TVG 15/01/2017 | Newspaper-article (La Voz de Galicia) 10/01/2018 | |
Midday News (Telexornal) TVG 13/06/2018 | Newspaper-article (La Voz de Galicia) 14/06/2018 | Piece of news and video in CorreoTV 13/06/2018 |
GSP sixth PLENARY ASSEMBLY - Global Soil Partnership (11-13 June, FAO HQ, Rome)
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PHOTOREPORT
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PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES (November 2017)
Filmmaker's team (ESO4) coordinated by ANXA NOVO: LOIS MORÓN, DANIEL MÉNDEZ, ARTUR VÁZQUEZ e LAURA CAEIRO
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> Youngest trio (ESO3) among painter's team: IRENE GARCÍA, IRIA FEBRERO, SILVIA FUENTES. |
Sampling in an amphibolite-soil profile near Viso, Compostela
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Preparing soil-derived pigments |
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Irene, Silvia and Iria during first tests with edaphic pigments
Figurative designs had been evaluated as well >> |
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FIELD TRIP to PONTECALDELAS (24 November 2017)
Pontecaldelas, first sensations over a burnt area
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Fire crossed the Verdugo river through a belt od mimosa (Acacia dealbata); it's an invasive alien species, whose seeds are triggered to germinate en masse following fires |
The little village is located on the top of the forested slope. This woodland was quite recent: the trace of the stone walls are visible now, showing the terraced farmland abandoned during 1960's migration of the local population.
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Getting ready to register Dr. Rafael Zas explanations, from MBG-CSIC
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Willdfires devastate more that the visible vegetation, they also damage fauna...
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Fire severity was low in sections of an oak grove where the canopy has survived; the falling leaves create a natural mulch covering. It's nearly level, so the little slope is going to limit water erosion as well .
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Needles decaying from pine trees spread over the soil and prevent water erosion (detail) |
Soil erosion risk is also low in this section of the pine wood: gently slope and pine needle covering
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Research results have shown that straw mulching is the most adecuate procedure to mitigate after-fire soil erosion in Galicia, specially where vulnerability is higher as in steep slope areas.
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In order to reduce soil erosion caused by surface runoff, local environmental volunteers have spread straw mulch |
Preparations for recording an interview with RAFA ZAS
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Artur claps to allow audio synchronisation
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15-16 years oll students (4ºESO) had previouly discussed the questions to be posed during the interview; coordination by MARILÓ LAGARÓN (Galician language dept.) |
Laura and Cristina
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REHEARSAL (29 November 2017)
Painting rehearsal at reduced scale; materials, techniques and secuence of paint layers to apply. Painting should be a flowing process, as it is going to get registered in a video through a a sequence of photographs (time-lapse) To set the frecuency shooting in the camera, we had estimated the painting process will last two hours and a half.
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Celebrating WORLD SOIL DAY: Painting a mural for the FAO-GSP Soil Painting Competition
ANXA and NICO placing the official World Soil Day 2017 poster. Note the camera location for the time-lapse (near the top left corner of the image) |
We have used the Portuguese WSD 2014 poster as well |
Attaching the canvas -in fact a foam board- with a wrinkled paper glued on it to obtain the texture needed
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The five painters, in a white paint suit, grind straw coming from Pontecaldelas mulching to be used in the final step of the painting process.
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The setting is almost completed, although the edges of the canvass have not been covered yet
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Different soil samples to be mixed into glue to made paint, together with autumn leaves to be used during the painting finish. |
The painting team starts at 11:45 hours the underpainting layers. Public (students and teachers in their way to their classrooms) observe from the first and second stages converging in the central hall.
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Finalising the underpainting, it will be ready for the 12:25 hours break; the job will be interrupted for 20 minutes to ease paint drying: the whole school community would appreciate the work at this point. |
The second part of the painting process begins as 12:45 hours; it includes the utilisation of ash and charcoal collected at . Pontecaldelas burnt areas together with straw from the mulch covering. |
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Images obtained from the 2468 frame sequence used to built the time-lapse.
Shooting frecuency had been set to 3 seconds.
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They belong to the second stage of the painting process; including the finishing, when straw from mulching, seeds and leaves are disposed. |
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After three exhausting weeks using every break for planning, material preparation, discussion and tests, ESTELA PINTOS pose with the artists: |
PAULA ALFONSIN, CRISTINA DÍAZ, (4º ESO) SILVIA FUENTES, IRENE GARCÍA, IRIA FEBRERO (3º ESO) |
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Celebrating World Soil Day : TALKS
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Rafa analyses the causes of wildfires in Galicia and describe their effects on ecosystems and soils. |
Gloria explain some post-fire mitaigation procedures, and describes how did they organise the environmental volunteering field activities at Pontecaldelas. |
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The musicians : video score for the Soil Painting Competition
Arrangements for "Lamento della Ninfa" and guitar: VICTOR BLANCO Audio recording and edition: ANTONIO RIVAS
SILVIA FERRO (clarinet); ANA BALSA, NOA GARCÍA (cello) CRISTINA SANTAYA , MILAGROS ANGUEIRA (clarinet) |
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We tidy up, the technical team - who study Information Technology with Anxa- went ahead with the film editing during the remaining two class sessions before the December long weekend. We sent everything to FAO just before the deadline. Then exams and assessment come; but before ending the term we still had two days left to germinate oak acorns.
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ANXA NOVO (Technology) |
NICOLÁS LUCAS (Biology) |
ESTELA PINTOS (Art and Design) |
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Planting acorns We have organized an oak (Quercus robur) acorn germination to encourage knowledge and participation in our project "After the Fire" and thus widing its impact among the school community. The activity was aimed to the youger students: 12-14 years old ((ESO1 and ESO 2).
These acorns had been gathered in Pontevedra's forests, near the burnt area que had visited previously; Rafa Zas supplied them during World Soil Day.
There were a second goal as well: to participate in a symbolic reforestation during the next school year (autumn, 2018).
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Lower secondary, level 1 (ESO 1) | Lower secondary, level 2 (ESO 1) (ESO 2) |
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APRIL 2018- Our winner painting hanged for permanent exhibition. |
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The painting is located in the same architectural space where it had been created. A prior stabilization work have been necessary, it was conducted by Estela for several weeks. |
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Talk by Agustín Blond (25 April 2018)
Agustín is in charge of reforestation in burnt forest areas for the Pontevedra's province. In his talk he explained us how to: 1) Prioritize sections with the highest soil erosion vulnerability, the steep slope areas with high runoff and poor soils. 2) Select convenient species, those likely to survive in these less favourable areas.
3) Select machinery capable of accessing to complicated areas, causing at the same time the minimal impact on soils.
He also described how to prevent runoff transport of sediments to riverbeds, therefore avoiding the damages linked to these kind of erosional processes. |
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Oral presentation of the project: to students from Bembibre secondary school (14 May 2018)
Ana Cabanelas inicia a recepción do alumnado de Bembibre
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Laura presents the ecological and edaphic topics | Dani describes post-fire mitigation procedures |
Lois explain details about how the video was made |
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Distribution of the exhibition panels in the building's central hall, to facilitate the oral presentations. |
Cristina and Paula explaining the painting process. |
Paula analyzing the winner painting | Speech by a visiting student |
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(13 June 2018)
Oral presentation of the project: (to the media, soil researchers and governmental authorities
Dende a Dirección Xeral de Educación manifestóusenos o interese en estar presentes nun acto de presentación do proxecto ante os medios de comunicación, no que tamén particíparía o conselleiro. Máis tarde sumaríase ao acto a conselleira de Medio Rural. Invitamos a representantes da Sociedade Española de Ciencias del Suelo (SECS) e da Universidade de Santiago (USC) a un acto no que o alumnado premiado foi o protagonista. |
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(1) Dr. NICOLÁS LUCAS, coordinador do proxecto "Despois do Lume); detrás sitúase o alumnado premiado (frecha) que vai intervir secuencialmente na presentación. (2) ESTELA PINTOS, responsable do deseño e coordinación da pintura gañadora do "Concurso de Pintura con Solos, FAO 2017).
(3) ANA CABANELAS, colaborou na preparación das presentacións orais do alumnado. (4) Dr. EDUARDO GARCÍA-RODEJA, catedrático de Edafoloxía da USC (e director da miña tese), temén colaborou na creación da exposición permanente de edafodiversidade no Museo de Historia Natural. (5) Dr. ENRIQUE ZAS, catedrático de Física de partículas da USC, colabora con nós en diferentes proxectos.
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Nicolás Lucas explica como foi xurdiu e foi organizado o proxecto
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Profesorado e alumnado premiado acompañados da Dra. Monserrat Díaz (en representación da SECS). Detrás, o subdirector e o director xeral de Ordenación Educativa xunto co director do IES A Pontepedriña.
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PAULA ALFONSÍN (co micro) e CRISTINA DÍAZ realizan a interpretación do mural ante Ángeles Vázquez conselleira de Medio Rural), Román Rodríguez (conselleiro de Educación), e Montse Díaz (CSIC). |
ARTUR VÁZQUEZ realiza a presentación xeral do proxecto no marco do concurso convocado en relación ao Día Mundial do Solo |
LAURA CAEIRO explica o impacto dos incendios forestais en relación a dinámica -sucesión/perturbación de ecosistemas e solos.
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DANIEL MÉNDEZ incide nas técnicas de mitigación post-incendio para evitar a erosión de solos e a afectación a ecosistemas fluviais.
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LOIS MORÓN describe os detalles relativos á realización do video enviado ao concurso da FAO |
SILVIA FUENTES realiza a introducción ao proceso de pintado do mural
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IRIA FEBRERO explica os actividades previas ao pintado: recolllida e preparación de material, deseño, probas. |
IRENE GARCÍA detalla o proceso seguido para pintar a obra na celebración do Día Mundial do Solo
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A Dra. Montserrat Díaz, Investigador Científico do Instituto de Investigacións Agrobiolóxicas de Galicia (IIAG-CSIC) fala en calidade de presidenta da Sección de Bioloxía da SECS |
Alumnado de 4º ESO escoita as últimas intervencións do acto |
Estela Pintos e Nicolás Lucas xunto a Rafael Zas, que desempeñou un papel fundamental no proxecto. Grazas Rafa polo teu entusiasmo e valía!
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Intervención de Ángeles Vázquez, conselleira de Medio Rural da Xunta de Galicia Intervención de Román Rodríguez, conselleiro de Educación da Xunta de Galicia > |
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CONSELLEIRA DE MEDIO RURAL CONSELLEIRO DE EDUCACIÓN |
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Conference participation: "LandCare for the future" |
(16-18 July 2018) |
Programa e libro de resumos do congreso / Resumo da nosa participación (preme para acceder) |
POSTER PRESENTADO (preme para ampliar)
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Unha copia do noso póster no stand da Delegación Territorial en Galicia da SECS, con Maite e Monstse - Dra. Maria Teresa Barral (USC) / Dra. Montserrat Díaz (IIAG-CSIC) |
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The president of the SECS visits us (17 July 2018) Aproveitando a súa presencia en Compostela para participar no congreso "LandCare for the Future", o Dr. Jorge Mateix Solera -presidente da Sociedad Española de Ciencias del Suelo- visitou o IES Pontepedriña para interesarse polos detalles do proxecto e admirar de cerca a obra pictórica.
Javier Dapena, Nicolás Lucas, Jorge Mateix, Estela Pintos e Montserrat Díaz |
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Entregounos un DIPLOMA de recoñecemento do labor realizado. Grazas Jorge, pois a a SECS xa valoraba o noso proxecto antes de gañarmos o premio da FAO. |
E tamén trouxo de agasallo unhas camisetas... as do equipo da SECS gañador do bronce no mundial de Río (Soil Judging Contest 2018).
Que entregamos ao noso alumnado gañador do Soil Painting Competition 2017, ao inicio do novo curso, en setembro. |
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ANXA, ESTELA, Artur, Laura, Lois, Paula, Dani e NICO ; sentadas están Cristina, Silvia, Irene e Iria. |
O equipo premiado posa coas camisetas da SECS diante do mural | Na aula de Música está VÍCTOR, que fixo a o arranxo do tema de Monteverdi, acompañando a Ana, Cristina, Silvia e Mila (Noa estaba ilocalizable). |
Celebrating WORLD SOIL DAY 2018
Celebrating WORLD SOIL DAY 2019
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