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  "code": "UES-201",
  "slug": "marine-layer-weather-light-daily-seeing",
  "title": "Marine Layer: Weather, Light & Daily Seeing",
  "status": "active",
  "frame": "Study weather as visual material and public experience: observe one place closely enough to see air, light, sound, and daily change become a local language.",
  "outcome": "An accessible six-panel micro-atlas showing one place through changing weather, light, color, and sound.",
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  "weeklyCommitment": {
    "selfGuidedStudioMinutes": 75,
    "fieldworkMinutes": {
      "minimum": 60,
      "maximum": 90
    },
    "reflectionMinutes": 20,
    "total": "About 2.5–3 hours per module"
  },
  "access": [
    "Every instruction is readable on the public course page; audio or video references require a transcript or equivalent text path.",
    "Every required prompt, scenario, rubric, and checklist is written on this course page; named sources are optional references, not missing course materials.",
    "Low-bandwidth, print-friendly syllabus with no paid platform or subscription required.",
    "No live attendance, camera, account, wallet, or public posting is required.",
    "Progress stays in this browser unless the learner chooses to download a private completion receipt.",
    "Webcam, public-weather-data, and memory-based observation paths when outdoor fieldwork is unavailable."
  ],
  "materials": [
    "Phone camera, camera, or sketchbook",
    "Notebook or notes app",
    "Basic image, audio, or layout tool of the learner’s choice",
    "Access to public weather observations; no paid weather service required"
  ],
  "instructorProfile": "A photographer, visual artist, or field naturalist with atmospheric or coastal literacy, source discipline, and an accessible critique practice.",
  "soloPath": "Use one repeatable viewpoint and compare your own observations across time. For every self-edit, check five things on the page: place and time are clear, observation is separate from inference, sources are traceable, the work has a text equivalent, and uncertainty remains visible.",
  "assignments": [
    {
      "title": "Seven-day sky log",
      "dueWeek": 2,
      "brief": "Observe one place at a consistent time for seven days using image, color, sound, text, or a combination."
    },
    {
      "title": "Weather card",
      "dueWeek": 4,
      "brief": "Translate one observed condition into a concise visual card with a source note and meaningful alt text."
    },
    {
      "title": "Micro-atlas plate",
      "dueWeek": 6,
      "brief": "Edit six observations into one coherent, accessible micro-atlas plate. Keep it private by default; adding it to a collective atlas is optional and the private plate counts equally."
    }
  ],
  "weeks": [
    {
      "week": 1,
      "title": "Notice Before Naming",
      "question": "What becomes visible when we stay with one patch of air before deciding what it means?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "On-page field note: record place, date, local time, direction faced, visible conditions, sound, temperature if known, and one uncertainty",
        "National Weather Service observation vocabulary",
        "Artist weather diaries and serial landscape studies"
      ],
      "studio": "Build a personal working vocabulary of haze, cloud edge, glare, wind, temperature, distance, and uncertainty, defining each word from direct observation.",
      "fieldTask": "Choose one repeatable viewpoint and make three observations at different times of day.",
      "publicReceipt": "A first-view card naming the place, time, conditions, and one unresolved question."
    },
    {
      "week": 2,
      "title": "Weather Has Sources",
      "question": "How can lived observation and public data correct, deepen, or complicate each other?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "NOAA and National Weather Service observation products",
        "Tide, wind, visibility, and air-quality public-data conventions",
        "On-page source note: title or agency, observation time, access date, what it supports, and what it cannot establish"
      ],
      "studio": "Read a forecast discussion, compare it with the sky log, and distinguish observation from inference.",
      "fieldTask": "Complete the seven-day sky log and pair two entries with time-matched public observations.",
      "publicReceipt": "One sourced comparison between what the learner saw and what a public instrument recorded."
    },
    {
      "week": 3,
      "title": "Light, Color, Sound",
      "question": "What visual or sonic system can hold a condition without flattening it?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "Color notation and environmental sound-score examples",
        "Accessible color-contrast and audio-description practices",
        "Any freely viewable weather diary or serial landscape; the exercise does not depend on a particular archive"
      ],
      "studio": "Test three translations of one condition through palette, mark, typography, sequence, or sound.",
      "fieldTask": "Record one changing condition in two different media and compare what each medium loses.",
      "publicReceipt": "A two-medium study with a plain-language description of the editorial choice."
    },
    {
      "week": 4,
      "title": "Weather in Public",
      "question": "Who experiences the same weather differently, and how does the built environment change it?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "On-page place check: note shade, glare, wind, shelter, seating or waiting, surface, noise, and an alternate access path",
        "Public-space accessibility field-audit examples",
        "Local accounts of marine layer, airport edge, beach, and street conditions"
      ],
      "studio": "Self-check the weather card with four questions: can it be read at arm’s length, can every data claim be traced, does the text equivalent carry the meaning, and does it describe this place rather than generic weather? Revise one failure; optional outside critique may supplement the same check.",
      "fieldTask": "Compare two nearby public places for shade, glare, wind, shelter, and ease of waiting.",
      "publicReceipt": "The finished weather card plus an access note and alt text."
    },
    {
      "week": 5,
      "title": "A System for Daily Change",
      "question": "How can many distinct observations belong together without becoming identical?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "Grid, sequence, legend, and small-multiple design references",
        "On-page six-panel check: one consistent order, readable labels, a legend for every code, individual dates, and credits for anything not made by the learner",
        "Open image, text, and audio licensing choices"
      ],
      "studio": "Edit the studies into a consistent personal atlas grammar; optionally compare it with a shared atlas grammar without changing the completion standard.",
      "fieldTask": "Produce a six-panel draft and run the structured accessibility and editorial self-check. An optional peer edit may be added, but the self-check counts equally.",
      "publicReceipt": "A before-and-after edit note showing what changed and why."
    },
    {
      "week": 6,
      "title": "Open the Atlas",
      "question": "What should the next observer be able to notice, reuse, or question?",
      "sourceShelf": [
        "On-page final check: title, six ordered panels, context sentence, source note, credits, text equivalents, limitations, and a correction contact or note",
        "On-page archive fields: filename, creator, date, place at a privacy-safe precision, format, rights choice, source list, and revision date",
        "Publication, licensing, wallet use, and minting are separate optional decisions; keeping one local file completes the class"
      ],
      "studio": "Sequence the personal atlas and conduct a final source-and-access self-review. A collective sequence or public showing is optional, and a private review counts equally.",
      "fieldTask": "Finish the micro-atlas plate and prepare one sentence of context for a future observer.",
      "publicReceipt": "A private-by-default atlas plate with credits, source note, alt text, and optional process audio; publishing or exhibiting it is optional."
    }
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  "archiveWorkNumber": "017",
  "archiveCategory": "WEATHER + LIGHT",
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    "UES-103",
    "UES-105",
    "UES-106"
  ],
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  "addedProductionNeed": "Weather-and-art guest honorarium beyond the standard course plan.",
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