2007 COASTAL FIELDWORK FOLLOW UP HELP

The write up is going to be similar to the example sheets which you were issued with before the event. You have been given a booklet based on the pages on the website. I have produced some PHOTO JAMS (and ANIMOTO) of the images. You will see other images in the lessons taken from previous years. I recommend that you ensure all images are ANNOTATED.

Hopefully you will make use of the images I have produced, or your own images...

Don't forget !

Remember the 2 locations: HOLKHAM SAND DUNES (a National Nature Reserve) and STIFFKEY SALT MARSH. Some useful management information on the Holkham site.

If you go down the road in Stiffkey a little (past the elephant hedge at Nellie's cottage) to 'The Red Lion' there is glacial drift on view in the car park above the pub. You will need to be able to draw a sketch map to show the location of the 2 sites. There are obviously many online sites which will allow you to find a location map (and also overlay the aerial photography if required...) or you can base it on another existing map. Can I remind you that this is a skill which you need for the exam.

HOLT HALL  provided tutors for the day, and have also been responsible for the risk assessments and other issues relating to the trip. Thanks to Dr. Simon Woodhouse for his expert tuition over the last few years, and the information to update the URL...

TECHNIQUES and EQUIPMENT

• Compass - to follow bearing on transect, and to set out 20m x 20m square accurately for POINT QUADRATS on the salt marsh.
• Random Number tables.
• Tape (20m)
• Ranging Poles.
• Quadrats - folding
• Identification keys (laminated for easy cleaning - these are muddy places)
• 10x magnification eye lens
• Point quadrats (for the salt marsh)
• Digital camera for taking pictures of transects (BRING YOUR OWN IF YOU HAVE ONE !!)
• Gun Clinometers
• Soil Sampling materials: test tubes, plastic freezer bags, spatula
• Data Recorder (model unknown...), Wind measurement and soil temperature probes and light meters

POINT QUADRAT: This involves a piece of equipment which can be either 'shop bought' or hand made. The tutors from Holt Hall had some bought ones, along with homemade ones which were large lumps of wood with 6 inch nails driven into them. Need to have 10 points to allow you to generate points which can then be put into CHI SQUARED tests...

• Holkham / Stiffkey - MAPS - these are now available on MULTIMAP which now also offers the feature of overlaid AERIAL photography of the 2 areas in question. Do a search to find your own examples, or other online mapping sources.
• Can also use DUMPR to turn photos into FIELD SKETCHES.
• I recommend you visit the SEA SHORE website. This has a range of resources on coastal environments, but the illustrated description of how salt marshes. The SEASHORE site also offers some great advice on the use of STATISTICS.
• We used KITE DIAGRAMS to illustrate the species which were present: use the ACFOR scale (details elsewhere on the site) and plot against a centre line on graph paper (use EXCEL too if you can work through the various stages involved. The time spent is probably not worth it.) - make sure that you add annotations and refer to the specific sections of the kites for specific vegetation types

Good luck !

Remember that the project will act as your major revision resource for the 2nd section of the COASTS TOPIC. This means that you need to cover the main aspects of SUCCESSION and ZONATION featured in the specification. You should also be considering the SAMPLING methods used, and also the LIMITATIONS of the methods used.

For the MARK SCHEME for the project, follow the link.

Plenty of images are now available on my FLICKR page - search for user GeoBlogs... Over 120 images...

http://flickr.com/photos/geographypages/sets/72157602477273915/

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