Malibu High School
BIOLOGY LONG TERM RESEARCH PROJECT
PART 2 - METHODS & WRITING
DOWNLOAD THIS MS WORD FILE FROM THE ZUMA MATERIALS WEB PAGE. TYPE YOUR NAME, SAVE, AND PRINT.
THIS IS THE Environmental “THURSDAY” SIDE OF THE DATA SHEET ! Data: ENVIRONMENTAL DATA:
Air Temperature Sea Surface Temperature Bottom Water Temperature Wind Speed & Direction Cloud Cover Max. Wave Height Weekly Rainfall Surface Water Density Surface Water Salinity Tide Level Distance Water Color Sea State Beach Profile Non-Ocean Debris
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BIOLOGICAL DATA: Marine Birds Marine Mammals Marine Animal Debris Marine Plant Debris
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INSTRUMENTS
Garmin GPS Map 76CSx
22.3
THERMOANEMOMETER
5 GALLON BUCKET
TENTH-DEGREE DIGITAL THERMOMETER
DON’T GET THE YELLOW TOP PART IN THE WATER !
GLASS SEAWATER HYDROMETER LOOK UNDER THE WATER LINE !
500mL CLEAR CYLINDER
DENSITY: pure, distilled H2 is 1.000 g/cm3
Lines represent the BOTTOM of the water line
1.0250 g/cm3 1.0300 g/cm3
RECORD THE CORRECT DATA A g/cm3 1.0225
B g/cm3 1.0260 C g/cm3 1.0285
Temperature-DensitySalinity Conversion Chart
FIND SALINITY IF: d=1.0245 and t=15OC
FIND SALINITY IF: d=1.0245 and t=15OC
SALINITY = 33.1 o/oo
on/off
temp.
depth
digital BATHYTHERMOGRAPH
WIND VANE
A
WIND DIRECTION HAND HELD COMPASS and WIND VANE
B Multiply number by 10 !
BEAUFORT SEA STATE CHART
Whale spouts – sea state ________
Sooty shearwater – sea state______
The Forel scale
The Ule scale
face of an outside set wave
What is the water color? ______ U or F
______ #
crest
trough Sam McGee - MHS
MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT – estimated in meters.
RECORD THE WAVE HEIGHT IN METERS
PERCENT CLOUD COVER (use the whole sky)
RAIN GAUGE
The shape of the beach changes with the seasons
this is called a berm.
BEACH PROFILE
TIDE LEVEL DISTANCE
STOP WHEN YOU GET YOUR FEET WET
50
55
60
65
70
75
START AT EDGE OF SIDEWALK (BASELINE POINT)
80
85
90
95
100
105
110
115
120
125
130
TH TH EM AT ET M ER TH A RE E BE RKS NUM CO AC TH B RD H P E E ER LE E N R D DO O VE A F L D S T I LE F IST HE IS AN TID CE E
R O D L E F G IN S U M A F T N IE C S
BIOLOGICAL DATA ORGANISMS OBSERVED: 1- ABUNDANCE Population size - total number. 2- DIVERSITY Number of different kinds (species).
Guide to Marine Birds Binoculars
Stefan Harris
1
RECORD SPECIES OF MARINE BIRDS AND NUMBER OF EACH SPECIES OBSERVED
Brian Auger
2
http://www.highcountryconservation.org/
types of NON-OCEAN DEBRIS MATERIAL (ANTHROPOGENIC DEBRIS)
GUIDE TO THE MARINE MAMMALS
Gabor Szabo 3
MICROPLANKTON NET
SURFBOARD
PLANKTON Organisms that cannot swim against the ocean currents. (Drifters)
COMPOUND LABORATORY MICROSCOPE (AND SMART PHONE)
Illustrated Guide to the Marine Plankton
Computer, MS Excel and regular File Checks
PROJECT TIMELINE: 1st
Sept 12 – Clipboards due
2nd
Sept 19 – First data sheet at Zuma
3rd
Sept 20 – 6wk report due - cheap 3-hole report cover - printed Intro and Methods First data sheet
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LET’S GO TO THE BEACH !