GEO 435 Research Methods

Powerpoints:

Designing a research project

Literature Review

Study Area

Sampling

Making field observations

Secondary data-slides added

Human-based methods

Vegetation and soil sampling

Repeat photography

Urban Sampling

Archival research

Analyzing Geographical data

Graphical Presentation of data

Presenting a project

Exercises:

Exercise 2 (due Monday, August 31st)

Exercise 3 (due Wednesday, September 9th)

Study area description (due Wednesday, September 21st)

Results and discussion exercise

Spreadsheet for exercise

Reading assignments:

Repeat photography original photographs (click to download file of photos)

Anderson et al. reading for Land Cover/Land Use (urban sampling)

Websites

Chicago Manual of Style - Online help for citing other people's works, use author-date system

Plagarism Tutorial

Plagarism for Students

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