Stream+Health+Report


 * April 1st: Outline for Stream Health Report

Introduction (Carra):** Includes background information concerning the development of the original Assessment tool (provided by Kate Golden et al, but document initial authors). Discuss briefly our groups alterations of tool (customize tool for TLC use i.e. employees and volunteers etc) <>


 * Objectives (Carra):** Define group objectives (should be on main Stream Health wiki page).


 * Methods (Will):** //Of Refining Process//
 * Rough introduction to tool (2-14-09) - give a brief description of process but not results of trip
 * Class Pilot Study (3-11-09) - give brief description of process but not results of trip
 * Final Sampling Locations (04-01-09 - 04-08-09) - give brief description of process but not results


 * Methods (Kelly):** //Product of Refining Process Methods: Methodology of Stream Health Assessment Tool//
 * Tutorial (reference powerpoint located in appendix): description of purpose and context of tutorial
 * Include equipment needed
 * Categorical breakdown: include description of category, method instructions and its stream health significance (reference report card in appendix)

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 * Results (Kate):** Includes just results/data ONLY no discussion in this section!
 * Refining Methods: include descriptions of results from rough introduction/ class pilot study/ meeting with Kris Bass etc.
 * Pilot study: display variability results for specific categories (to show repeatability of specific categories)
 * Final Sampling Study: deliverable "table" format (for each water body..i.e. Rocky Branch, Centennial Stream, and Schenck) displaying all assessed stream health categories.
 * Discussion (ALL):**
 * Explain results section: concerning pilot study (repeatability), Final sampling point (significance of providing a baseline)
 * Explain stumbling blocks/issues of progress and refining tool
 * Make recommendations for assessment tool implementation for TLC

//Accountability: All group members should have rough draft of sections completed by **Friday, April 10th by 5pm**. Our first draft is due to Dr. Hess by **Monday, April 13 by 5pm**.

<<george 4/3 I think you should reorganize this. There are, I believe, 3 somewhat separate products here: (1) A written report of the changes made to the original tool and why they were made (brief), the results of a repeatability test, and the sample analysis of the NCSU creeks as an example of how the tool can be used. This report is in the standard Intro / obj / Methods etc format (2) A field guide for users of the tool. This is currently in the second methods section you show above. Instead, this should be a separate guide - a modification of the one you started with (I can send you the Word files) that describes how to use the tool, etc. (3) The PPT tutorial you are proposing to develop.

The outline for the first product - the report - should look something like this ... Intro - TLC context, including why they are interested in having a tool like this - Brief description of past work (ie, the development of the tool prior to our class)

Objectives - Test, refine, demonstrate the use of the tool

Methods - As described above under (Will) - but we do not need a "blow-by-blow" approach here - keep it simple - Description of repeatability test methods (you're going to have to do this test again to collect fresh data, because the tool has changed)

Results - Results of repeatability test - Sample results of application of tool to NCSU streams

Discussion - Implications of repeatability results - What do the sample results tell us? - What problems of note did we encounter? What do they mean for TLC's use of tool, training volunteers, etc - Recommendations

THe second and third products I think are fairly self-explanatory, but let me know if their are questions.

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