Calculate river discharge
Fictional training exercise. A team measures a permitted shallow reach from a safe platform. The section is simplified as a rectangle.
Fieldwork methods and decisions
Choose a method, identify a weakness and decide what the observations can support.
All resources here are fictional training exercises. They do not count as required fieldwork, design your assessed enquiry or certify a real site as safe.
Choose reliable velocity measurements
Fictional training exercise. A float is timed along the same 5 m reach four times. No student enters the water.
Sample beach material fairly
Fictional training exercise. Three zones have different surface materials. The group wants to compare all zones without choosing conspicuous stones.
Interpret a beach profile
Fictional training exercise. Heights come from a fictional surveyed profile above the same datum.
Separate place from time
Fictional training exercise. The team compares pedestrian use at two sites, but the visits were at different times.
Review a questionnaire sample
Fictional training exercise. A survey about a proposed town-centre cycle lane collects responses at a cycle shop.
Make environmental scores comparable
Fictional training exercise. Two observers rate litter on a five-point scale. Higher scores mean less litter.
Control an infiltration comparison
Fictional training exercise. Equal volumes of water are applied inside the same ring, under permission, in comparable safe sites.
Check a temperature comparison
Fictional training exercise. Sensors of the same model are placed at three sites. One is in direct sun against a dark wall.
Choose a spatial sampling design
Fictional training exercise. The question concerns vegetation change with distance from a regularly used footpath.
Report missing field data
Fictional training exercise. A damaged counter failed at one of four sites.
Compare like with like
Fictional training exercise. Two sources describe flood losses in fictional districts.
Interpret correlation cautiously
Fictional training exercise. Each pair represents a different fictional street measured during the same time window.
Make a fieldwork risk decision
Fictional training exercise. A planned channel measurement follows heavy rain. A local warning is active.
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