Dawlish Warren Explain how coastal management strategies used in your chosen area have taken conflicting views into account.

Method of data collection How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? Method of data collection This involves a description of the fieldwork techniques that were carried out to collect primary data for the investigation: measuring and recording the beach sediment each side of the groynes (beach height and width), photographing of coastal defences, questionnaires. an explanation of why these methods are used what problems were encountered in the collection of data & how might these be solved? http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Fieldwork+and+local+learning/Fieldwork+techniques/Coasts.htm This web site will help to remind you of some of the techniques we used.

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? Complete a table for the methodology like the one in your fieldwork booklet. It will help you to include annotated photographs of you all working. Don’t forget to include some reference to sampling methods. http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Fieldwork+and+local+learning/Fieldwork+techniques/Sampling+techniques.htm Eg random sampling for questionnaires? This web site will help to remind you of some of the sampling methods that we used. You may use approximately 100 words to introduce the methodology.

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? Methodology Table for Data Collection Name of technique Method How exactly did you collect the data? (What did you do? In detail – groyne number, pylon number, number of people etc) Detailed points. Purpose Why is the data being collected? How will it be useful? (Why did you collect that data – what for? Eg to prove / disprove LSD, peoples opinions etc) Limitations & Improvements What are the problems & weaknesses of collecting the data in this way? How could this be improved? Photographs Sea Defence evaluation Groyne & beach measurements Questionnaires What questions? How many people? Remember – this was the main way you were finding out about opinions of people – think about the title of this piece of work! Talk by ranger Other eg. Landuse etc This must be very detailed and include maps and photographs

How many groynes were sampled? How did we select the groynes? Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? Why did we measure the beach sediment on each side of the groynes? Remember – updrift & downdrift & pylons! How many groynes were sampled? How did we select the groynes? Why couldn’t we measure groynes 1,2? What about groynes 8+?

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? Use maps to show where data was collected Measurements taken of sediment each side of the groyne & beach width.

How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? .....Photographs to explain what you were doing Really good photographs show YOU taking some of the measurements and those of the defences that you saw. Remember to annotate them! Photos to show some of the limitations – for example, why we couldn’t measure groynes 1,2 and 3? Annotate them! Photos could be labelled to show groyne, pylon, updrift, downdrift.

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? Include …. Photographs of coastal defences at Dawlish Warren. Of members of your group taking the measurements

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? “They have suggested an appropriate variety of techniques and technologies to undertake their enquiry.” “They have collected and recorded accurately a range of appropriate evidence from a wide range of sources, including fieldwork.”

Coastal management and conflicting views at Dawlish Warren? How successful are the coastal defences at Dawlish Warren? You may draft some of this section at home. You will have a short test, similar to the one about ‘setting the scene’, to check that you have read and understood the powerpoint. Remember, you can email any queries you have to: geography@paigntonacademy.org