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Post 9- Field Research Reflection
At the beginning of this course, I decided to research bee colonies in a trail I used to take my kids through on our way to their school. Unfortunately, their…
Dandelion Mowing_Observation Week_Graph
My data regarding my experiment involves two quadrats, one as a control and the second for the investigation, each starting with four dandelions. I was expecting the opposite outcome as…
Sampling Strategies
The 3 sampling strategies used in the tutorial were: Systematic Random Haphazard The fastest estimated sampling time was done in the systematic sampling. Comparing the percent error of the most…
Sources of Scientific Information
Blog post #2: Sources of Scientific Information For this blog post, I chose an article titled Oil Spills and Marine Mammals in British Columbia, Canada:Development and Application of a Risk-Based…
Data Collection
For my initial field sampling, I decided to use random area sampling. The biggest difficulty I found was how to choose my areas for the five different sampling locations in…
Post 7- Theoretical Perspectives
My study research was built upon the hypothesis of a relationship between mowing frequency and dandelion abundance; according to my hypothesis and a few readings regarding the topic, I have…
Post 6- Data collection
My study started with random sampling by throwing the handmade plastic quadrats to get two quadrats, one as a control and the second as my experimental plot. I needed to…
Post # 5- Design reflection
In my initial planning, I chose five random quadrats in my backyard to study and examine the effect of mowing on the abundance of dandelions; however, for an unfortunate reason,…
Observations: Bow River Pathway
Blog post #1: Observations Date: 01/01/2023 (The beginning of a new year!) Weather: 1 °C, partly cloudy, no wind. (Winter, with spring like weather conditions) 1-2 cm of compacted snow…
BP #8: Generating a Graph
For my project, I’ve chosen to create a scatter plot graph to illustrate my data. I’ve mapped individual plant height on the x axis against the number of berries per…