Group 4 Reflection

1.) Our original hypothesis was to located any invasive species and test for the conditions that affect them. We then located a specific spot on the satellite image where there was a drastic change in foliage. We then decided to test as to why there was such a drastic change.

2.) We had a few issues with the equipment. We underestimated the amount of samples we planned to take and therefore didn't bring enough plastic bags to hold things. We tried to find distilled water for the instrument cleaning, but the best we could do was spring water from a bottle. We had two versions of a dissolved oxygen sensor. The most technical and accurate one proved much to difficult to be used in the field, so we went with a less accurate one, but we did note this in our reflections.

3.) Working within a group was really helpful in terms of being able to bounce ideas and hypotheses off of one another. Because we needed to test a lot of control factors, having more than one person run tests at one time really sped up the process. Having each one of us be under a different scientific discipline was useful to help understand all the factors that can effect an environment.

4.) With any test, certain margins of error exist. It is crucial to take the limitations of the equipment into account when calculating something. I believe our data to be pretty reliable because we did take into account the limitation of our equipment and tried our best to moderate it. We did run a number of test sites and our data held a solid correlation.