My sentiments mirror those of a few other recent students, designing and implementing an ecological study is difficult, painstaking work. The minute details that make you constantly revise are frustrating and oversight is easy. Designing a watertight field study would take much longer than a single semester and a senior supervisor would be much appreciated on site.
My study evolved quite a lot throughout the initial design phase. Lofty goals were met with difficulties and realities and I ended up needing to compromise on many of my objectives. Site access, data issues and writer’s block were just some of the issues that i faced. Joking aside, I ended up learning a lot and would like to take another crack at it sooner rather than later.