Christopher Harmon - Senior Project

Final Blog Week

This week I have been working on the taking the data that I received from the Suffolk County Health Department and putting them into graphs that I can use with my poster. I am also working on my essays for the poster about water, water chemistry, my local case studies and the future of ocean health.

Since I am going away during the holiday break, it makes working on my project a little bit easy in one way and harder in another. It's easier because I really don't have to do anything while i'm away so I have plenty of time to work on my project. On the other hand, i'm going to be at the beach so it might be somewhat hard to work. However, I'll get my product all finished a few days before I come back.

Week of 12/7

Today I met with Patty to discuss what I need to work on with my senior project. This is what I will be doing the next few weeks: Looking at historical data of growth in Peconic and SHinnecock bay areas,indexing the graphs starting at 0 and try and color code by years. Topics of the different essays I will be writing: 1st. Water chemistry in general. What it is? why is it important? Important factors when looking at ocean health. 2nd: factors that cause water chemistry changes and impact of changing water chemistry. 3rd: Local case study: interpretation of my data: historical and current. 4th: What does this suggest for future activities, why we need to pay attention to whats happening with our water chemistry.

I also found what program I will be using to display my graphs of the historical data: it's a program called Grapher. At the moment I just have to make a few edits to the graphs I already have(indexing the years and adding more data) and then add in the salinity for each of the areas.