the reporter, meteorologist, and landuse planner to discuss your responsibilities
a strategy for collecting information about possible changes in turbidity
in the lake following a major rainstorm. Answer the following questions
as a part of developing your strategy and be prepared to explain your
data include turbidity values for each zone (epilimnion,
or for specific depths? Be prepared to explain why.
- What data will you use as your starting point for your graphs of
turbidity? (The actual values at the beginning of the rainstorm, or
some type of average values, or ??).
- Over what
period of time should you collect and graph your turbidity values (for
how many hours/days?)
the data available, how many measurements should you collect and graph
to illustrate the impacts of a rainfall on turbidity?
When you have
developed your strategies, collect the information needed.
data as a graph(s).
your graph indicate about the impacts of a rainfall on turbidity? What
additional information would you like to collect before you would be very
confident in making generalizations about the relationships between rainfall
your group reporter has the information needed for the final report.