SOUTH PACIFIC -
Field work is essential to learning ecology, so in the Ecosystems Research Project, Eli Knapp from Houghton College told the students to get outside, get dirty and get data. Well, he actually gave us a pretty thorough framework for the scientific process of field research which is acceptable in graduate-level scientific work, and then told students to get outside etc…
To help students understand what “real world” fieldwork entails, Eli encouraged the students to come up with creative, tractable and interesting research questions. These were the research topics that our four groups developed, researched (in sun, high-tide, wind, rain and rainforest), wrote and presented:
FOCUS: Intertidal Marine - The effects of rahi temporary marine reserve protections on intertidal diversity and abundance in Kaikoura, NZ.
FOCUS: Native Birds - Community composition of birds along an elevational and successional gradient.
FOCUS: Streams - Effects of disturbance on the biodiversity of macroinvertabrates in Kaikoura streams.
FOCUS: Native Plant Life - A comparison of plot isolation of diversity of plant species with in a New Zealand forest
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