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Mosquito Creek Park Visit – Observations
I visited Mosquito Creek Park in North Vancouver, B.C. on April 19th, 2022 from 4:30pm-6pm. The weather was around 12 degrees Celsius. It is currently spring here in North Vancouver…
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…
Sampling Strategies
Sampling time In terms of time spent sampling they were all similar. Haphazard was the most efficient at 12 hours 30 minutes (this time could change based on the sample…
Ongoing Field Observations along a Peninsula
As I’ve become more interested in GIS and erosion lately, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to both and will likely focus my observations on the active erosion occurring…
Virtual Forest Sampling
The virtual forest sampling exercise produced some interesting results. Sampling Time – In order from least to greatest: Systematic (12:36), Random (12:41), Haphazard/subjective (12:54). While this makes sense from a…
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….
McNeill Bay Ongoing Observations
The organism that I will be studying is the barnacle (Chthamalus stellatus). I will choose three locations along the environmental gradient. The first being the first drainage site and presence…
Sampling strategies in Virtual forest
All three techniques had small differences in the time spent to do sampling, but haphazard sampling was the most efficient one with 12 hours and 27 minutes. Random sampling took…
Blog 4: Sampling Strategies
I used three sampling techniques in this tutorial: haphazard, area random and distance random. Time needed for sampling was as follows: haphazard: 11 hours 50 min area random: 13 hours…