Last week we worked on our data libraries for out Trimble units using Pathfinder. This was the first time for any of us to use the software, but everyone spent some time with it and almost everyone got their data libraries on their Trimble units. Creating a library for species was difficult because I would ideally need to create an attribute row for each species and within the row for each location, list the number of each species identified within the plot. However, that would require me to make many rows which would make it difficult to enter my data for each location. As a compromise I created fields for the dominant species we expect to find as well as five "other" fields to list other species identified. Hopefully there are no more than five "other" species. If there are then I can adjust my library at a later date.
On Friday we had guest speakers from the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health in North Little Rock. It was really great to hear about potential jobs after graduation. Although I intend to go to graduate school in the fall, I will still at some point need to find a job and hearing tips from recent UCA graduates was really informative.
As a class we also made a list of equipment for field work on Friday February 28 when we go out in the field with Allyn. I have added a densiometer to my list of equipment because Dr. Entrekin wants me to also survey density along with richness.
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