Category: Post 5: Design Reflections
Design Reflections
For my field study, I have chosen to use Counts as my unit of data collection. Unfortunately, due to the season, data has been significantly limited. Since it is winter,…
Blog Post 5: Design Reflections
The major difficulties with data collection for this project were the variations in temperature and freezing of the river for most of January. Originally I hoped to collect data over…
Design Reflections
I collected my initial data on 8 Feb 2024 between 17:15 and 17:45. The temperature was around 5 or 6°C and it was cloudy and damp. I kept my field…
Post 5- Design Reflections
Data collection was a large undertaking which was close to 5km of walking as each of my plots was 100m apart. The systematic sampling strategy, focused on a 10-hectare stand…
Design Reflections
For my data collection I did find it hard because there was substantially less data than I anticipated, and my data is less birds visiting my yard. The data I…
Design refection on data collection
For my data collection I used point count sampling technique, I was determined to record bird sightings and assess the availability of rowan berries. Over five days, at three different…
Blog Post 5- Reflection on Data Collection
The main issues I had with collecting my data included the weather as it had been very cold (as low as -30°C) and many blizzard conditions. The other issue that…
Blog Post #5
My initial data measured the abundance of Garry Oak trees using an area- sample method. I divided the hill into 4 transects by elevation, each of which were 10m. Within…
Design Reflections
The data was collected using the random sampling technique. A 1m × 1m quadrat was used to sample the data. A random number generator was used to generate the number…
Design Reflection
In Module 3 of my Field Research Project on Bird Diversity and Migration Patterns in Riverside Park, I descended into the data collection phase. I encountered several challenging but illuminating…