The objectives for GEO 480 are to improve the student's research and writing skills, to provide information of value to the community, and to demonstrate the application of classroom knowledge to a real world problem.
Classmates help with the gathering of data to answer the posed research questions.
Watershed basics, problems in the Dog River Watershed, watershed delineation. Resumes and fieldnotes, generating hypotheses. Team reconnaissance of assigned watershed sub-basin. Walk in the watershed, visit selected sites. Draft resumes and hypotheses due.