week 10

this week we finalized out literature review, and also talked about the various ways of representing our data with GIS. after christmas we will be doing more litter surveys, in the same spots as before christmas, we wil also do more in spring, this is to give us as much data as possible to look at, and see if there is a variation in litter abundance from autumn-spring

week 9

this week we carried out two more litter surveys on the east side of the solent, we also continued to do research for out literature review, we will be meeting in the next week to bring it all together and write up our final literature review. we are also going to the isle of wight for the last 3 litter surveys on the 8th of december.

week 8

this week we have had discussions on what we willl be doing for ourliterature review, we have begun research into the area, and will reconvene in the 9th week of the project to bring all our research together and form it into a structured literature review. we've also organised a date for our next couple of litter surveys, one on the 2nd of december for the east side of the solent, and one on the 7th od december when we will carry our litter surveys on the isle of wight.

week 7

this week we carried out our first two beach litter surveys, at milford-on-sea and calshot. we also have decided to survey a total of seven beachs, two to the east of the mouth of the solent estuary, and two to the west, and a further two on the isle of wight within the solent. a final beach will be surveyed on the opposite side of the isle of wight, to compair beahces on the solent, with one exposed to the main sea.
we also have had issues with our minutes, there has been a lack of communication over who is carrying out what roles, minutes have not been uploaded for the past 4 weeks.
we perhaps need to come up with a rotation of who takes and uploads minutes and who is the leader for the weeks meeting.

week 6

during week six we came up with a selection of 3 sites on which to do our litter survey on, we also need to selcet 2 more beaches.

week 5

we finalised and handed in our group proposal this week, after having gone away to do private reasearch. we then gathered in the library twice this week to bring it all together. we also came up with the final methodology of how we will carry out the litter surveys. now it is down to finding the apporpriate beaches and carrying out the litter surveys.

week 4

after looking into our chosen subject, we have decided against doing biodiversity on golf courses, we have instead decided to change our subject to litter in the solent, this was done after having a meeting on monday afternoon to talk about our subject.

week 3

this week there was a new addition to the group, simon joined, we also chose our subject, biodiversity on gold courses. however this subject would be harder than first presumed as at this time of season, plants would not be in flower, making them hard to identify. we will have to do some research and decide whether to change the subject we will be doing.

the decision

this week, we finalized the groups that we are in (dave, emil, jeff and myself) we also had a brief discussion on what subject we would be doing, and made sure of a specific time and day each week to meet up, after speaking with paul, as he wil be sitting in.

pshycometric tests

this week we had to fill in a belbin and MBTI test, this was to show us what we are like as people and who we might be best suited to work with, however i'am dubious as to just how accurate these tests are. i hope i'm right because otherwise most of the groups shouldn't be working too well together according to the results.