Design Reflections- Stockley Open Space

My study location is an open field that has a walking trail (linear disturbance) running through it. Upon walking along the trail on my first site visit I noticed that…

Post 5: reflections. Getting out to begin the study

Observations taken May 14 from 12-2 pm. Weather windy, sunny and 14 degrees Celsius. I used quadrats at 10’x10′ to look at the instance of chokecherry connection to lesser burdock…

Mosquito Creek Park – Design Reflections

The data was collected at Mosquito Creek Park on April 23rd, 2022. The main objective was to determine where the Vinca Minor grows; if it is in specific locations and…

Blog #5: Study Design Reflections and Redirections

On March 19, 2022, I collected my initial data for the research project. While I very much enjoyed collecting data on the south-facing slopes, I encountered a few challenges on…

Reflection on Initial Data Collection – McNeill Bay

I thought a lot (probably too long) about how and what the best way to collect data for my project would be. At first, I wasn’t exactly sure how to…

Design Reflections

On 18th April around 4:27 PM in St. Vital Park. The weather was partly cloudy with 1° C, with wind of 13 km/hr. I planned to observe the trees in…

Design Reflections

For my sampling technique, I decided to run five 15m belt transects around various areas of Turner’s bog. The transects extended 1m to both sides creating 2m x 15m transects….

Deer Herbivory at Camosun College

The initial data collection at my site was very interesting. Just after I finished my first replicate, I noticed that I had 3 esteemed visitors that were doing exactly what…

Griffith Woods Design Reflections

 In my initial data collection, I recorded nine replicates. I placed 3 randomized 2 m2 quadrats within each distance stratum. Using google maps to find the first randomized coordinates was…

Research design beginnings

In blog post three I thought I would try to see if there was a correlation between salmon carcasses and species richness, however this will prove difficult to get a…