The facts are the accumulated knowledge of many generations of scientific work, and the language or terminology allows him to communicate with other specialists around the world. However the scientific method is basically very simple, being more a way of thinking about problems and their solution. While the knowledge and language of science are useful, they are not always necessary for scientific solutions to local environmental problems. They can be replaced by long experience in a place and good powers of observation. It should thus be possible for someone like you with reasonable intelligence, good powers of observation, and an understanding of the scientific method, to become a kind of local expert or scientist able to do research and find solutions to local problems.
Research means to study something carefully in order to learn something new about it.
The scientific method is a way of doing research. It is often necessary to go through this process several times, as the results one set of experiments or observations may raise new questions or suggest other explanations. Also, one of the proofs of successful science is that others should be able to repeat the same experiments and to get the same results. Definition of the problem Defining what the problem is in a way that it can be studied scientifically is perhaps the hardest step in the process. Sometimes people know that something is wrong, but they cannot think about it very clearly.