workplan!!!!

Teammmmmm!!!!!!

Here is a preliminary outline for the 10-page workplan that we have to have done by next Tuesday.

Recall from syllabus what the workplan is supposed to include…

-       Statement of, and brief introduction to, the research question

-       Review of literature outlining critical findings and current gaps in knowledge

-       Proposed work including a description of how the research questions will be answered

-       Presentation of research methods and work plan outlining individuals responsibilities

-       Proposed timeline of research progress

Please have your final sections to the two of us by the end of Sunday at the latest so that we have time to make edits re coherence. (For some of you, this just means editing sections you already sent us to make them more concise.)

Please use the following format: 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, single-spaced, 2.5 margins, MLA citation style.  

INTRODUCTION – Urban Metabolism?

-       1 page

-       by Andrew and Rachelle

STUDY – What and Why?

-       2 pages

-       by Andrew and Rachelle

METHODS

-       Instrument / set-up

o   1 page

o    by Nadine and Gregor

-       Determining background CO2 / differentiating between sources

o   1 page

o   by Ariella and Adam

o   (summary of lit. review concerning methods for determining background, specific challenges with doing so for this project, and future research that will be done (e.g. Keeling Curve) -- perhaps include Appendix with more technical details)

-       Weather data and traffic data (including wind-rose and eddy mixing with height)

o   ¾ of a page

o   by Angela and Jan-Erik

o   (I am guessing you’ll have to do some research about what traffic data we can obtain.)

-       Data-Analysis (using matlab)

o   ¼ page

o   by Nadine/Gregor + Jan-Erik

o   (really brief few sentences about how we are going to convert data into MATLAB format so as to apply statistics)

HYPOTHESES –

-       2 pages

-       As with data interpretation, it would likely make sense if we all contributed to developing our research hypotheses… We’ve created a shared word document with the paragraphs that Adam and Arielle already wrote concerning temporal variation… Everyone should try put in their ideas by the end and Sunday, and then the two of us will finalize the section…

-       https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1p8ds2hxc_Q9zLJC0xeAMi_9vSAz1wQiIaPdbi1ZfKEk&hl=en&authkey=CI_Mk9sB

WORKPLAN

-       2 pages

-       by Andrew and Rachelle

-       outline of workload with timetable of progress

+ Appendices (!)

-       calendar with time-table

-       spreadsheet that divides up responsibilities among all of us

-       ….

We have also created a spreadsheet with all the tasks and responsibilities that we have to divide up. Please fill your name into things you’d be interested in doing, and also add things that you think we missed.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkXrxolOozuddEMtVU5tbUI2S2Z5YVNWbW1TVmhBNVE&hl=en&authkey=CImI7dwE

Thanks all…

Andrew and Rachelle