Shoreham

Name: Shoreham Fieldwork Follow up Before your lesson on Tuesday 28th June you must: 1) Complete the questions on this sheet 2) Enter your group’s data into the right day’s spreadsheet: http://intranet.stpaulsschool.org.uk/geography/igcse/a-coastal-environments/coasts-fieldtrip/links-to-spreedsheets 3) Drop a balloon in Google Earth on the exact point of your beach transect. Add any pictures, videos etc.. to your balloon. Submit here: http://intranet.stpaulsschool.org.uk/geography/igcse/a-coastal-environments/coasts-fieldtrip/drop-box-for-beach-transects 1. Gathering people’s views |How did you decide which|It was essential to use fairly brief questionnaires to collect the data on account of the the time limitations. We | |was the best way to |kept the questions short and easy to answer (e.g. answering between a scale of 1-10) so that the questionnaire was | |collect information |as accessible as possible to a large variety of people. The answers would be direct, also meaning that we would a | |about people’s views on |large amount of quantative data which could be very helpful for statistics. | |the management of |The use of extended interviews would have been extremely inefficient or simply not possible when considering the | |Shoreham’s coastline' |circumstances. The time constraint meant that we would have only collected data from a handful of people, and the | |(talk about pros/cons of|data we would have received would have been subjective to the person’s opinion. There was a very low probability | |possible alternatives) |that we would have found someone who was willing to give up that much of their time on the spot, in particular | | |under the short space of time before hand. Similar reasons apply to why a focus group could not be used. | |Once you had decided |We ended up asking as many people as we could find in the area beach, as there was a very small number of people | |your method, how did you|out and about at the time. We also saw a handful of people sitting along the beach. | |decide who you were | | |going to ask' | | |What changes did you |After Piloting the questionnaire, I decided to reduce that number of questions on the questionnaire to increase the| |make to your data |ease for the public to answer it. | |gathering method once | | |you were in the field' | | |How effective was your |All in all, it seemed to be effective alongside the circumstances. Fewer people meant that we and they were able to| |data gathering |take their | |technique' E.g. right | | |mix of questions and | | |question types | | |How would you present |After collecting the information, we gave a paragraph for each question stating what different people said, gave a | |the information that you|mean/median/mode rfor the responses regaring numbers between 1 and 10 as well as those regarding age, and presented| |collected' |the data on a slideshow. | |Explain the limitations |We were not able to ask a large variety of people, due to people that were present at midday during a working week | |of your data collection |in a suburban area. It would have been more beneficial to use the questionnaires in an urban area more densely | |and suggest how this |populated than a suburban coast region as we would have yielded a larger quantity of information. | |study could be extended | | 2. Measuring the beach Profile |Describe the method you |Concerning the drawing of a sketch of the beach profile, we attempted to find a spot higher up along the norwegian | |undertook to measure the|rock which would enable us to have an entire view of the beach profile. From there, it was easy to draw the features | |beach profile and |of the beach as well as the areas where the beach was raised/ levelled off. | |sediment data. (inc. |For collecting rock data, we took our data from within five metre lengths, starting off near the sea and progressively| |equipment, etc..) |moving up the beach by five metres. We also measured the incline of the beach with a clinometer, where one would hold | | |the device up to his eye while aiming the sights at another person of similar height who stood at the other end of the| | |five metre length. Within each length we randomly selected five rocks and measured the length, width and thickness of | | |each one using pebbleometer. After, we attempted to use Power’s scale to measure how rounded/angular each rock was. | |How did you assess the |For dictating a risk assessment, I took a value between 1 and 10 to measure both the severity and potential frequency | |risks involved in your |of a hazard, and finished by writing a mitigation strategy to avoid the stated risk. | |data collection' | | 3. Extension task – Use the data on the spreadsheet to draw two beach profiles in the space below that will enable you to evaluate the impact of Shoreham’s coastal defences.