The Great Big Show-you-can-really-do-it-all Final Assignment

Environmental Resources 372:362
Intermediate Environmental Geomatics

 

Stages of Development

This assignment has three phases:

1) exploration and proposal

B) proposal review and negotiation

iii) project completion, product production, and presentation

PHASE 1

The first phase, exploration and proposal, should begin with you getting together with classmates and exploring possible projects.  To make your life easier, you should try to bounce the ideas off Dr. Tulloch or Dr. Hatfield as soon as you think you have something concrete.

Your proposed project should represent a team of 2-4 people.  THERE WILL BE NO ONE PERSON TEAMS.  It should provide an answer to a real or hypothetical question pertaining to a human issue (i.e. it should be about solutions and not data).  It should reflect an appropriate level of difficulty for a team of your size and academic progress (i.e. grad student teams should be able to do a tiny bit more).  Multiple data sources are harder to work with than a single source. 

The proposal should contain these specific items:

Names of all team participants

Title of proposed project

Question(s) being asked and answered

Methods for proposed project

Data to be used and source of data

Estimate of time required

Major Output (poster, web page, or other)

Anything else that is needed in order for the proposals to be understood

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Must be emailed to dtulloch@crssa (Subject: 362: Proposal) by Monday, March 21, 2005.

PHASE B

Hopefully this phase will be quite brief.  We reserve the right to refuse, revise, and/or negotiate changes to the proposals.  The point of this will be to make sure that you have something that is realistic, but also meaningful.

PHASE iii

***The final projects will be due on the last day of class (Wednesday, April 27th).  All teams will present their projects (5 minutes) and teams with graduate students will be required to make a formal in-class presentation (10 minutes) on that date.   ALL teams will be expected to provide a report on their project detailing the project and displaying the final results.  Each report should be of sufficient quality to present to a potential employer.

            Details regarding the intermediate deadlines, presentations and reports will be provided at a later date.

Important dates:

April 6^th – Data Acquisition complete

April 13^th – Analysis and Metadata complete

April 20^th – Printing and Plotting complete

April 27^th – Presentations and Reports handed in