Fieldwork - Science topic

Think in terms of breadth -- how widespread is it? and depth -- what is this like? I want to know how frequently cancers occur in different locations (very important social epidemiology information). I count. I want to know about the experience of dealing with cancer personally, for family,for health professionals, etc. I ask. The cancer patient does not care much about cancer clusters in Houston.

Not enough. Best course is the wonderful biography, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa", by Brian Peterson. But I am still hoping to find something based on fieldwork in villages.

You may be interested in the article I ended up writing, which has a big section on the CDRs. In my list of articles on this site.

Extracting information about mountain glaciers without extensive fieldwork can be achieved through remote sensing techniques and the utilization of satellite imagery. Here are some recent methodologies and datasets that can be helpful:

By combining these methodologies and leveraging available datasets, researchers can efficiently extract information about mountain glaciers without the need for extensive fieldwork, enabling comprehensive glacier monitoring and analysis on a global scale.

Hello. Below are links to several indexed and Scopus-covered journals that may be relevant to your research topic(s).

Hope this helps.

Good luck.

There are many soil moisture sensor are available in the market but the accuracy does not exceed 0.3%. The most notable are: IoT, ECOWITT, XLUX, IPPINKA Sustee Aquameter and Netro Whisperer.

Revered Universidad Nacional Autono,

Your lady Professor has suggested good idea to you that is absolutely true in the sense that some of the people in the community will not allow the outsiders like Village officials, development practitioners and NGOs to enter into their villages.

The main objective is to lead life without external sources of knowledge and inputs to grow for the future. They want to be independent but not to be country by others.

In Anthropological survey needs the confidence building exercises with the community people before collecting the qualitative data.

It is true that these people are very primitive, follow their own language, food habits, dressing style, attitude, cultural and traditional indigenous behavior have made them to be strong enough to sustain their life without any harmful challenges.

They are thinking that these outsiders may change their minds, practice, life styles and break the indigenous system in the hills, villages, remote settings etc.

Unless proper good rapport with these indigenous people that you cannot collect the data easily.

Regards

Senapathy

Ethiopia

To be an aim and the relative material.

Hi, I am sure you must have done this already but still I suggest to do extensive literature review and come up with a conceptual framework and then through your field data you can further beef it up.

May be you had better adopt new research instruments that youcould administer online. Waiting for the pandemic to be over will procrastinate your research study.

Best luck with your research,

I am in agreement with Sajjad. The clue for infected plants by nematodes comes from the weakness of plants. Then we can go through root sampling and check if we can find nematodes in the root glands, of course if it exists.

Dear Anna,

The link below leads you to a project emerging a promising solution in mitigating the accumulation of plastics in the environment. You may also follow the works of the project coordinator.

I hope this helps you to persuade your scientific goal.

Best, Elaheh

Hi dear Drasti.

Good question.

Ethnography is based on the premise that the Internet, in addition to being a research tool, can itself be a place for interviews. In such cases, the Internet can be studied as an environment or culture in which human beings create certain forms of communication, or sometimes specific identities. In both cases, ethnographic methods can be introduced to Internet research and the methods of communication and presentation on the Internet can be studied. To gain an understanding of participants' perceptions of themselves and the meaning they give to their online partnerships, they need to spend time with them watching what they do online and listening to what they have to say about what they do online.

Virtual ethnography is a technical environment instead of a natural one. Technology should not be taken for granted because its impact and use is strongly influenced by its representations and the beliefs that both users and non-users have about it.

Hi, What are your findings?

It sounds like Grounded Theory, in which the researcher goes back and forth between analysis and people who were the source data to check and refine interpretations.

But it is also beneficial for the researcher to have an understanding of the target culture.

Describe clearly how you obtained and selected the papers, that you are reviewing. Especially the selection part requires attention, try to formulate objective inclusion or exclusion criteria.

In my opinion, a good review is not a simple bringing together of all the information considered worthwhile, but also a critical appraisal where considered necessary by the reviewer.

Good luck!

Dear @Bula Wayessa, I think there is a typing error... firework?

Or I have misunderstood?

"What is the best Fieldwork for Ideation process?" The iterative ideation process is related to what idea(s) or problems you’re focused on. It has wide application usage depending on which direction you want to go, for example, design fields of varying descriptions, etc. However, the specific fieldwork you need to embark on depends on what you are focusing on. At this initial stage, it seems to me to be a difficulty in prescribing the fieldwork without the specific focus or definition of the research problem. It could also create a stultification of great ideas you may have without defining your particular research problem. So in looking at the relationship between qualitative research (ethnography) and the ideation activity, what are you aiming at? Again, once you define that, you’re good to go. That is why @Abdullah Al-Beraidi attempts to help define specific problems you could look at. Thanks

I recently know a software for perception study, used by a researcher from Hong Kong of China?

I am struggling with the same constraints, although Macao doesn't have new COVID cases for months, and we only had up now 45; no deaths, all cured. Nonetheless, all fieldwork that my students were doing related to heritage research has stopped. I have asked for the cooperation of my colleagues from drama and video-cinema. They have created a kind of live theater that combined with videos tried to mobilize students to simulate their fieldwork. It helps training some observation metholodogies, taking notes, selecting ideas for discussion, but cannot naturally substitite the fieldwork "surprises".

Field work has been made difficult by coronavirus-induced lockdowns. However, this does not mean that anthropological research has to come to a standstill. During the pandemic anthropologists can use social media facilities such as Skype and WhatsApp as virtual replacements of face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions. Participants can still be asked open-ended questions and their responses can be coded and analysed qualitatively. Thick descriptions and detailed quotes which are the hallmark of ethnographic research are still possible, even though under less than ideal conditions. If documents are available in hard copy or soft copy on the internet, they can be analysed qualitatively while the researcher observes social distancing at home.

Paulo Galvão Thank you

Dear Alistair,

Good for you!

I am pioneering author of courses about natural disaster and DRR since 2006 the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw.

It is program approval for students; there is the protocol for work.

Students have an opportunity to do the thesis in the subject. But last years my institution not help me to developing this work because lecture is in the end of study, on last semester of Master Study).

I have cooperated also international students (in 2017) and scholar of The Lane Kirkland Scholarship Program, in this year.

I have been Bachelor and Master Thesis's supervisor about disaster since 2008.

I am an author of publication in Polish language about ethics aspects connected with natural disaster, too. I have also cooperated with RCB in Poland, and expertise’s for them in 2019 but not about ethics kind.

Kind regards,

Dorota

Jeffrey Paul Schaffer I strongly disagree. Geomorphology is not a belief system like Christianity. It is science.

Let me quote Tim Minchin here:

"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved."

What are the beliefs in Geomorphology that could not be overturned by observation?

Many differnt reasons.

Perhaps generalization, perhaps cross-validation, perhaps measure-equivalence.

Also, there is the prospect of empirically trialing new content (extending measures).

Hope this helps,

Matt

depends on your data - could be ideology, identity, power relations, style... socio-political...

Freshwater Mussels - College of the Environment and Life ...

cels.uri.edu › docslink › water-quality-factsheets › Mussels_Updated

by M Hunt

Most ethics guidelines stress that you should not pay them too much, and paying a lot may affect them tax-wise (so a lot of longitudinal studies particularly in medicine face this), but reimbursement for their time is usually acceptable. Sometimes using Amazon or Starbucks cards is used, but this depends on your sample. So, in short, check your local ethics guidelines.

Best method for preserving root samples for AMF colonization studies is to use 50 % ethanol solution , many use 70% ethanol solution..

Skip cloud brightening and aerosol injections--it will never work. Instead, revegetate the hot barren one billion acres of the planet with native perennial grasses, so that they insulate the soil, and keep the bare ground from absorbing and then radiating that heat back into the air? And also, revegetation of the deserts will keep the soil and dust from getting airborne, which eliminates the cloud clover. Plus add back the Pseudomonas native host plants, to also help increase the cloud cover. See http://discovermagazine.com/2012/apr/07-does-rain-come-from-life-in-the-clouds

Thank you Estela!. I'll check the links!...

I would not ask you a question so ambiguous that it gives bad interpretations, but with the contacts you have in Poitiers I would use them. Anyway, a French group that is doing paleontological excavations in France finds it at the University of Bordeaux. That is what you are interested in, get in touch with them and you can also get a co-direction or a collaboration for your research. It can be, you never know!

I believe that if you have clear ideas, if you get in direct contact with these groups, you have much to gain. Good luck and the best for your projects

Remei

A pleasure!

¿Cómo se hace un acercamiento desde la antropología?... entiendo que hacia allá va la inquietud, y veo que va más allá de lo metodológico. Mi quehacer ha estado mucho más cercano a un trabajo de campo con pueblos y nacionalidades originarias en un marco de derechos, y en ese mismo marco han estado apegadas mis actividades de investigación, a partir de un consentimiento previo que me ha permitido acceder a la información planteada en mis modelos conceptuales y metodológicos.

Considero fundamental un manejo ético del investigador, respetuoso y que considere sobre todo una relación de iguales, alejada de visiones paternalistas y también de visiones abusivas.

En cuanto a la producción escrita, esta debe ser considerada en función del público al que se pretende llegar, no por ello quiere decir que un texto para considerarse científico debe estar llego de citas, paráfrasis y un lenguaje complejo, sino que este debe exponer los resultados de un trabajo de investigación que sistematicen lo metodológico, y cuya interpretación llegue a conclusiones claras sobre el tema planteado.

Pongo a su consideración un artículo, publicado recientemente, que recoge tanto aspectos etnográficos como interpretaciones y planteamientos conceptuales, en un juego retórico que aborda, desde la experiencia y visión de investigador, varios elementos culturales que son analizados en contexto:

thank you so much, Agnieszka!

Our lab uses small HD camcorders setup on tripods, with the camera wrapped in a homemade rain-resistant cover (with a hole on the bottom where the tripod connects to the camera). So, its like the camera is wrapped in a tube. The camera is then connected to a powerbank with USB chord, and the powerbank is inside of dry bag. This setup lasts us 12 hours of HD footage no problem. Last year we had 20 cameras out filming almost every day for 4 months in humid rainforest and they all survived. The setup is small and mobile and I would often carry 4 to setup at multiple nests in the morning. Here is a picture of a setup (the white rope is not part of it)...

If you want proof of their ability to film in a downpour, check out this clip...

(the quality doesn't look as good when viewed on dropbox, but you get the idea)

Consider that most pipettes are typically calibrated to measure at standard lab temperature, water density and viscosity of about 25 C, you may need to develop a calibrated adjustment curve for the changes experienced at 0 C. Atmospheric pressure at high elevations also affects water density that may need adjustment. For some tests, it might be acceptable to collect field samples and later follow up with pipette of volumes in lab when at standard temperature, elevation. To develop a calibration, collect Perhaps 1 liter sampled in field, measure temperature, weigh, elevation, atmospheric pressure. Return sample(s) to lab, bring to or correct sample to standard temp and pressure, and this should help identify how you might adjust field samples to recognizable standard. Sterile, disposable plastic pipettes are probably acceptable, recognizing the smaller the volume of pipette, the more potential for adhering of microbial organisms to surfaces. Freezing of sample portions into pipette possible error to consider when sampling at freezing temperatures. For quick sampling in field for coliform tests years back, I used sterile whirl-paks to sample about 250 ml of water and return to lab for volume dispensing, dilutions, etc.

Hi,

Actually, there are opposing views in ethnography on this issue. Broadly speaking, If you prefered extended case method, you would start with a theory and go into the field, then go back to the theory to elaborate it. However, if you would prefer gorunded theory, you would enter the field without a specific theory and you would end up with a theory. For extended case method, I suggest you to look at Buroway and for grounded theory , as the previous answer mentioned, Glaser and Strauss.

I collected in Portuguese Timor, now East Timor, for two years. The material that I collected has some Hemiptera. Presently all specimens are in the collection of the University of Connecticut. I can check.Let me know.

My Email insectcatcher@comcast.net

Thank you so much Yuche, Daniel and Elif. I really appreciate your advises.

Dear Betania,

In your case I would suggest the use of Microsoft Access -- it is very simple and allows to keep all files in (relative) order. I used it for many years in "rush" situation to store files generated by a physically dispersed research group. From there you can export different data into special software like NVivo.

Bests,

Igor Gurkov

Not my expertise.

Thanks a lot Siti Khalid!

It depends on the trade regulations between the two respective countries. If no other rules apply, by WTO regulations you need a permit called ATA Carnet. It allows you to legally import and export specific equipment (listed by serial numbers) for a limited amount of time without paying import fees. You will then need to go the customs office of both countries when you are crossing the border, both when entering and leaving the country, and check every piece with its serial number against what is printed in the Carnet. Depending on how busy the customs office is, this means you probably need to go to the airport a couple of hours earlier than you usually would.

 You'll have to ask your local chamber of commerce about the specifics. They'll also be the one who can hand out the Carnet if necessary.

Hi Simon,

That video is fantastic! Exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for. Would you mind uploading the video here:

Youtube is blocked in many schools, as its very effective at pulling students away from study. So we've built a clean environment on Time for Geography that schools can make use of. You need to sign up to share a video, but its just a simple email signup.

Please include links to the paper/projects, that would be great!

Cheers,

Rob

If still relevant - see 

Field Research in Conflict Environments: Methodological Challenges and Snowball Sampling, Jul 2011

Journal of Peace Research

Nissim Cohen

Tamar Arieli

Sorry I am researching Domestic Violence in the home and its impact on the victim.

Please e-mail me at bryce.contor@gmail.com.  I have tried to attach some documents that would help you very much, but it does not seem to work.  I got an e-mail address for you from University of Exeter Internet site but that also does not work.

Dear Amit,

There are several ways to access the affect of climate change on biodiversity. Many of the articles you could access in Sciencedirect/Researchgate. There are two most popular methods for this. One is the temporal assessment of biodiversity using ground based tools and another is assessment of remote sensing images using LISS III/IV bands. But the later method also require ground verification otherwise the predictions would be theoretical rather than practical. Another process is to understand the temporal variations in biodiversity before and after any disaster event to understand how plant community cope with natural disasters. You would find the following work useful.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302386980_Dynamics_of_mangrove_diversity_influenced_by_climate_change_and_consequent_accelerated_sea_level_rise_at_Indian_Sundarbans

There's also Marc Groenen's Pour une histoire de la Préhistoire which provides a non-exhaustive summary of the history of excavation methods.

And some more about Leroi-Gourhan's techniques by Paul Courbin (1987):

Hi,

Maybe this paper could help:

Obesity Bias in College Students Pursuing Careers in Health and Fashion

By:Heiss, V (Heiss, Valerie)[ 1 ] ; Buckworth, J (Buckworth, Janet)[ 1 ] ; Harmon, J (Harmon, Jennifer)[ 1 ] ; Rudd, N (Rudd, Nancy)[ 1 ]

 

MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Volume: 46

Issue: 5

Pages: 218-218

Supplement: 1

Meeting Abstract: 819

Published: MAY 2014

Thanks for these suggestions Stacie and will look out for published proceedings from AACTE this year. We are doing some embedding too - I do think it is helpful in terms of introducing edTPA language and vocabulary in particular (I am not a fan of the language used in the visual arts edTPA.)

One of my concerns is that the students are interpreting the edTPA process as THE way to teach. What do I mean by that? It seems that conceptually, it's difficult for them to separate or parse out an assessment experience -  learning segment (vs unit planning for example) that is video taped, (and capturing multiple criteria from rubrics in 20 minutes of video) from teaching and learning outside of this one assessment.  It's like another layer of technical learning/test taking that takes a lot of time to navigate and negotiate while doing their first student teaching experience. I do like the circular model presented of planning, teaching, assessing - but the format lends itself to a linear interpretation. I'll be interested to hear more from edTPA and AACTE about this.

Hello

I just can advise on the basis of experience/personnal use.

For several of our projects we use  the Li-Cor 6400, which is a quite robust machine  under (harsh) field conditions. In fact, other groups near my own uses also Li-Cor with good results (and some problems, which are inevitable). Still, despite some modifications along the years, this system has now some years and need some deep revision (the weight and the battery autonomy should be take in consideration, as the people that work in the field really knows)

On the other hand, I still use a CIRAS 1 system (with 17 years of heavy use that never crack down on my experiments, either field or lab measurements). Therefore, when I needed to buy a new system I choose the new CIRAS 3, which is much lighter (my back thanks me for this), with an extended autonomy (which can be further extended with an extra battery) depending on the light use or not and with a considerable lower price (for comparable specifications I believe that could be at least 20% cheaper). Yet, although it is a quite recent system, some software improvements should be considered, as, e.g,. the Li-Cor is somewhat user friendly when you have to identify a large set of plants/determinations.

Good luck and best regards

José C. Ramalho

Thank you Adrian for your answer. I agree, it depends on the breeding phenology, but in the community ecology issues, it seems that is really difficult an answer. This is an interest question for the Andean bird community, not enough answered yet.

Building on what Fernando suggested, you will probably want to use Program MARK to analyze nest success. It shouldn't be a problem to have incomplete data for this - I think that's very common for nest success/ hatchability analyses, as these same limitations often apply. An older methodology that you might also look into is Mayfield nest success.

You can use any handheld GPS device, I'm using magellan handheld GPS device they provide vantage point software by using that you can do your work easily.

Getac (www.getac.com) are fully rugged and are fantastic devices. I own a Getac handheld, which has worked perfectly for the past three years despite having been dropped from up to three metres onto rocks and fully submerged in water more than once. I currently work in a wet tropical area so it is often exposed to humidity, rain etc. I've also used Getac tablets, and they are also excellent.