The day started bright and early. Nick came to pick me up without telling me when he was coming. this lead me to taking my bagel with lox on the go and forgetting to grab water for the trek. The trek was also a surprise because the area that we were studying looked a lot flatter on google maps. The data collection began with no water and salmon mouth. We mapped out a bunch of transects that cut through our study area, each 10.8 meters apart. using a random number generator we picked our starting point, and would do every other transect from then on. Adam and I stood five meters apart and walked along our chosen line. Nathan would count all the eucalyptus trees in between Adam and I. He counted the trees on Adam's border but omitted the ones on my border. Nick and Jefferson made sure we were the right distance apart and kept us going in a straight line. This was easier said than done because of all the obstacles and poison oak. After doing that a few times Jeffery and Nick went and did circular areas in random locations in our study area. They came up with about the same area and got numbers that were consistent with our first method of counting. The second method proved to be much easier. On one of the treks up I started to develop a migraine that started with my loss of vision, so I had to be taken home early. I spent the rest of my day in my dark, dark room hating life and missing out on all the fun eucalyptus tree action.
The day started bright and early. Nick came to pick me up without telling me when he was coming. this lead me to taking my bagel with lox on the go and forgetting to grab water for the trek. The trek was also a surprise because the area that we were studying looked a lot flatter on google maps. The data collection began with no water and salmon mouth. We mapped out a bunch of transects that cut through our study area, each 10.8 meters apart. using a random number generator we picked our starting point, and would do every other transect from then on. Adam and I stood five meters apart and walked along our chosen line. Nathan would count all the eucalyptus trees in between Adam and I. He counted the trees on Adam's border but omitted the ones on my border. Nick and Jefferson made sure we were the right distance apart and kept us going in a straight line. This was easier said than done because of all the obstacles and poison oak. After doing that a few times Jeffery and Nick went and did circular areas in random locations in our study area. They came up with about the same area and got numbers that were consistent with our first method of counting. The second method proved to be much easier. On one of the treks up I started to develop a migraine that started with my loss of vision, so I had to be taken home early. I spent the rest of my day in my dark, dark room hating life and missing out on all the fun eucalyptus tree action.
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