Harkers Run B: Hays' Response

This topic submitted by Hays Cummins (haysc@muohio.edu) on 3/8/02.

Hello,

Good effort here. Below are some comments and miscellaneous suggestions.

I believe I understand what you want to accomplish here. How did your sampling go the other day?

For the scientific tests that you plan on using, I'd like to see more details as to why and how these tests have been used by other studies of aquatic ecosystems. Why these tests and not some others? This is where the literature comes in handy! Use it!

Speaking of literature, it looks like you have some good book sources and websites. The next step is to integrate your literature into the body of your work! At this point, the literature is "standing on its own" decoupled from your work.

There are plenty of primary literature sources from journals. You don't seem to have any. I'd like you to expand your literature base and include some of these sources. Use Ohio Link or the Science Article Database (a vast source of interesting articles in PDF format). This database can be accessed on the Rivers Proposal Page!

And finally, your historical and social aspects of your study don't appear to be well developed yet. It's coming, but,.....more needs to be done.

Some advice (for all groups): With these kinds of projects, it is very important that you work on it every week. Otherwise, the semester will come to an end without the work getting done.

You might consider other parts of the watershed far removed from Bachelor Preserve. One might expect that, if there are differences in water chemistry, that these differences will better manifested.

Keep us posted as to your progress!

Hays

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