OLFM: Nancy Elliot
Glenbrooke Ravine Park
Following the September site visit, I returned to Glenbrooke Ravine Park on October 12th and November 14th, 2022. Between the September and October field visit the weather remained consistent with…
Post6
The data collection I did is depend on the hypothesis and prediction made in previous. The weather on the day when I collected the data was cloudy and sunny with…
Bowmont Park Observations
Since it is Fall, I will be studying the effect that weather has on fall foliage. I am going to focus on the Balsam poplar trees by the shore. I…
Data Collection
Every Saturday afternoon between 4-5pm I went for a walk to the gradient area at the Golden View Trail. This lasted for 6 weekends to complete my 6 replicates. During…
Design Reflections
During my sampling of, it took quite some time to find the same places I placed the quadrats in previous replicates. The trail was also a popular walking area so…
Ongoing Field Observations
As I walked past the trail I noticed white spots sporadically spread out on the ground. Upon further investigation I noticed they a type of fungi, later being identified as…
Sampling Strategies
Overall, comparing the three sampling strategies, I would say the systemic sampling was the fastest at 12 hours 36 minutes compared to random’s 12 hours 43 minutes and haphazard’ s…
Post 5: Design Reflection
According to my point of view, the data I gathered is going to be useful for my research project. I am going to choose a number between 10 – 100…
Blog Post 3: Ongoing Field Observations of Kamala beach, Phuket, Thailand
The Organisms that I have chosen to study are The great egret (Ardea alba), The little egret (Egretta garzetta) and The grey heron (Ardea cinerea), however I might be mistaken with the identification of them. During…
Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information; Ordovician opabiniid-like animals
The article I have chosen for this post is about Ordovician opabiniid-like animals and the role of the proboscis in euarthropod head evolution. This a recently published article that was…