Posted in Project Ideas on Aug 2nd, 2012 Comments Off
This project will look at home range estimation for wildlife, which involves estimating the area that an animal occupies from satellite tracking data. The goal is to look at how home ranges can be estimated using concave hulls in a geographic information system (GIS). More specifically, this project will show how areas of the concave [...]
Posted in Project Ideas on Jul 20th, 2012 Comments Off
Growth rate It is known that plants are reliant on abiotic environmental factors, such as light, nutrients, temperature, etc., for their growth. Choose a species of plant you would like to focus on and one abiotic factor that influences its growth, and create an equation/function that predicts how the growth of your chosen species will [...]
Posted in Project Ideas on Jul 10th, 2012 Comments Off
Food chains/webs describe feeding relationships and energy flow within ecosystems. As one organism is consumed by another there is substantial losses in production as energy passes from one trophic level to the next. Choose a simple food chain that you wish to investigate and create a model that describes energy flow from one trophic level [...]
Posted in Project Ideas on Jun 20th, 2012 Comments Off
For fisheries it is imperative for managers to understand the population dynamics of the fishery they are trying to manage. Create a model to describe the recruitment of fish into a population as a function of the size of the parent stock. What happens to recruitment as you increase or decrease the parent stock? What [...]
Posted in Project Ideas on Jun 2nd, 2012 Comments Off
It is known that the test used to identify a very rare disease or the presence of a performance enhancing drug results gives a positive result 98% of the time when the disease or drug is actually present and a false positive 0.5% of the time. What is the probability of a positive test result [...]