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Summary of Fall Goals12/31/2020 The end of fall and an analysis of my fall goals brings some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is that I completed less testing than I had hoped. I got a full profile on 3 locations out of the 7 I had planned for. Looking back, I can outline the main reason for this shortfall. The problem with fall testing is a myriad of timing issues that compounded to get in my way. First, I have a window of a few hours to get my water samples, which means I can only get a location or two in a day. Second, the temperature was only consistently in my window for about a month and a half. Otherwise, it fluctuated enough that I lost a lot of good opportunities. In the future, I need to have a more concrete schedule. I can't plan for everything, but if I plan more I can read signs early and make adjustments to better account for timing issues. The good news is that my experiment was specifically designed so that an incomplete fall dataset would not be a big deal. Data analysis relies on comparison between two samples that are different in one variable. I only technically need one full fall profile to test for the variable of season, the rest can be analyzed purely with spring data. Ideally, the spring will bring better conditions, both environmentally (as I will have a longer temperature window) and in terms of my schoolwork.
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