Week 3

Grace Kellner
Date: 1/31/14
Location: UCA

Today as a class we went over everybody’s proposal outlines and hashed out what was good and what needs to be worked on for them. Everybody will presumably be working on their proposals over the weekend and early next week. Over the weekend I will be looking for peer-reviewed literature that I can use for background support of my hypothesis, as well as support for my methods in quantifying tree taxa richness. I think most of us will have to go back and find information on wetland mitigation. I have a solid understanding of conservation banking, but not so much on wetland mitigation. We’ll also have to look at the broader impact and intellectual merit of each of our projects so that we can include that in our proposals. For the broader impact, we’ll probably be looking at a lot of different topics but we’ll need to get some literature on the impact of roads on wetland functions. For me, I’ll need to apply the impact of roads on tree biodiversity in wetlands. I think we all have a better handle on what we’re doing and where to go from here, as well as potential complications on data gathering and analysis from our discussions today. Overall, it was a productive day in the lab.