Comments and suggestions on your proposal

This topic submitted by Bill and Andy on 2/18/03. Additions were last made on Tuesday, February 18, 2003. Section:

Bill's comments

What will you use as the measure of water quality? D.O., nutrients, sediment load, etc.

You need to provide a brief description of your sources. Include background readings on dams and provide historical and cultural references. Also, note the geologic history of the region.

It is not at all clear how the social sciences and humanities will be included here. consider the social and cultural value of the dam. Interview park rangers at HWSP and obtain data on park vistations.

Pictures should include upstream and downstream areas.

Andy's comments

You can sharpen this hypothesis---what measures of quality do you expect to be impaired---and make it interdisciplinary: are there measures of quality you can derive from the humanities and social sciences?

You'll need something on the human uses of FMC, right? and when/why the dam was built? When you revise you can include your discussion of why each source is important to your question.

The pictures are a good idea for adding humanities methods to your report, but you need humanities/social content as well.

Good on quantitative measures. Now discuss your qualitative measures:historical, human use, aesthetics. Those are measures too and you need to discuss how you will handle them. In general, you are good at discussing what kind of information you want, but not the details of how you will collect it or organize it to answer the questions.

Be certain to include landscape history.

Love and peace are nice. I wish you a harmonious semester. However, I assume you are not identical and interchangeable people. How is your group differentiated? Who are your specialists? who's good at what?

What statistics will be used? what differences are you testing?What kind of data do you hope to display? To make what point?

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