Quantitative Hydrology - FORS 4120/6120
Term Project:
Outline:
- The reason for collecting the data
- The procedures used for collecting and interpreting the data
- A summary of the data collected
- A statistical analysis of the data
- Conclusions about what the data indicate
- Evaluation of other team members
Schedule:
- Week 2 - Project teams organized
- Week 4 - Project summaries due
- Week 12 - Interim report due
- Week 15 - Draft report due
- Week 16 - Final report due
Organization:
- Students will work in teams, with no less than three students per team nor more than five students per team.
- Try to add individuals from other programs (i.e., diversity) to your team.
- Each team will have a graduate student leader, either a masters or a doctoral candidate.
- Each team will be responsible for collecting hydrologic data at a field site on at least a once-per-week basis.
- Each team will decide what data to collect, who will collect the data, and how often to collect the data.
- Ideally, the field data acquisition program will be associated with research related to the team leader's research project.
- The collected data must consist of at least twelve weeks of data.
- That means that each team must begin collecting data by the second week of class, at the latest.
- Students should decide what team they belong to, and hold their first meeting, by the third day of the first week.
- A description of the term project must be submitted by the team leader.
- The term project will be reviewed and returned to the team leader.
- The team will be responsible for reporting the results of the data acquisition program.
- It is strongly urged that a preliminary draft be submitted before final report is due.
- The draft report will be reviewed and then returned to the teams.
- Turning in a draft report is important so that you can make changes before turning in the final version.