As part of their required coursework all Portland State University (PSU) students complete a “Capstone” course. Capstones culminate the interdisciplinary University Studies program, bringing PSU students together with community partners to accomplish real life projects. Two Capstones courses worked with the Center for Columbia River History to research and collect additional materials for the Columbia Slough Web site.

The Winter 2000 course researched and created a section for the Columbia Slough Web site. The Summer 2000 course collected 12 oral histories focused on “Life on the Columbia Slough,” and created a Web section.

In January 2000 the Columbia Slough Super Sleuths, under the guidance of PSU graduate student Dannette Rowe, learned to do historical research, located primary documents, and created web pages for the Columbia Slough Web Site on the following topics:

• The Port of Portland
• Hayden Island
• Portland International Airport
• St. Johns Landfill
• Students’ Selected Bibliographies – Port of Portland, Hayden Island, Portland International Airpot, St. Johns Landfill

• Columbia Slough Summer 2000 Oral History Web Site
• Narrators’ Transcripts and Biographies
• Student Biographies and Comments on the Columbia Slough

Next Page: Port of Portland by PSU student Emily McDonald