A lecturer explains what is involved in environmental field work; aims, objectives and the assessment of a field study.
Carrying out a field study in a predominantly limestone-rich environment, identifying the depositional and erosional environments associated with a particular area and annotating to sketches.
Habitat Study Phase One: indentifying the underlying geology using the vegetation cover, and describing the relationship between grass species and the underlying soils.
Steps taken in calculating the amount of evapotranspiration between two points, and the instruments involved.
Measuring the water-flow rate between a set of given points, assessing the water quality and estimating the water budget.
Assessing the soil types from the vegetation cover and the nutrients gradient across a slope.
Understanding and identifying different grass species from different soil backgrounds