Fiddler Crabs

What I've Done I added my works cited to my final paper and made sure all in-text citations were correct. I made sure all of the figure numbers throughout my final paper coincide with the actual figures I'm talking about. Plans for Today I will print out my paper, fully revised to the best of my ability, and hand it into Ms. McDonald to see if there's anything I should change. I will also email it to Mrs. Zrada, so that she can look over the statistical portions of the paper. Plans for the Future I will make more final revisions, contingent upon what Mrs. Zrada and Ms. McDonald say to fix.

What I've Done I have added a screenshot of Sandy Hook from Google Earth to show the general location of Spermaceti Cove. I added GPS coordinates into my paper. I added in more graphs and tables. Plans for Today I will add my works cited to my final paper. Since I added more figures into the paper, I will go through and make sure all figure numbers align with the figure they are referencing. Plans for the Future I will make more final revisions to my paper and ask Ms. McDonald to revise it.

What I've Done I have updated my calendar with my new due dates and assignments. Plans for Today I will add my works cited to my final paper. I will also add a screenshot of Sandy Hook from Google Earth to show the general location of where the experiment took place. I will add the GPS coordinates into my paper. Lastly, I plan to add in more graphs and tables. Plans for the Future I will begin working on my marking period four work and making my poster.

What I've Done I received the packet for the marking period four work. I have not yet gotten the due dates. Plans for Today I will devise a plan for how to complete all of my assignments for this marking period. I will also begin to bullet point what needs to go on my final poster for senior project night. Plans for the Future I will begin working on my marking period four work and making my poster.

What goes on it: Design Briefs Abstract Hypotheses Ecological information All statistics used Include bar graphs & tables used Include results here Introduction Background Information Pictures of fiddler crabs Pictures of Spermaceti Cove Materials & Methods Discussion Acknowledgements Works Cited Power point dimensions: 24x36 16 or 18 point font paragraphs 24 or 36 point font for titles

Plans for Today I plan to assemble my paper. Due to the fact that I had my AP Literature final yesterday during this period, no progress has been made. Plans for the Future I will begin working on my marking period four work once I receive the syllabus for the quarter.

Contact with Mrs. Zrada Date of contact:  April 9, 2018 Contact:  Mrs. Zrada Reference:  Results and Discussion Discussion:  I emailed Mrs. Zrada my results and discussion portions of my paper and asked her to look it over for any revisions and errors. Conclusion:  Mrs. Zrada gave me replacements for the verbs I used to sound more professional. She also told me to include a graph in my discussion when talking about the slightly positive correlation between the temperature of the counting session in Celsius and the amount of fiddler crabs counted. She mentioned I should explicitly state what was calculated with a t-test and my null and regular hypothesis. Lastly, she told me I should continue my paragraph about limitations and add more to it.

Abstract This project is a longitudinal study of the Uca minax fiddler crab species at Spermaceti Cove on Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The purpose of this study is to determine the status of the population, whether or not it is increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable. This has been done by repeating the same method over the past years, and will continue to be repeated in future years. Fiddler crabs are counted at Spermaceti Cove during full and new moon phases at low tides during late spring to early fall, the species' breeding season. After conducting statistical analysis of the quantitative data collected over the years, it shows that the population is remaining stable. As this is a longitudinal study, as more years of data are procured, different conclusions may be drawn by comparing all of the sets of data to each other.   Results A correlation between the temperature of the counting day in Celsius and the amount of Uca minax fiddler crabs counted on both sides of Sper

What I've Done I presented my formal progress update for the third marking period. I also began my discussion yesterday and emailed both my discussion and results portion of my scientific research paper to my mentor, Mrs. Zrada, to be revised. Plans for Today I plan to use Mrs. Zrada's corrections to tweak my results and discussion sections to be more accurate and professional-sounding. After I make the necessary corrections, I will hand in my abstract, results, and discussion, as they are all due today, 10 April. Plans for the Future I will begin working on my marking period four work once I receive the syllabus for the quarter.

Discussion A correlation between the temperature of the counting days in Celsius and the amount of fiddler crabs counted on both sides of Spermaceti Cove exposed a direct relationship between these two variables; as temperature increases, there should be an increased amount of fiddler crabs spotted (see Figure 1).  Figure 1: Above is a table of the date the crabs were counted, with the amount of crabs counted and the temperature in Celsius. It is shown that a higher temperature also yields a higher amount of fiddler crabs counted the majority of the time. The results of this longitudinal study were not as predicted. The t-test provided evidence that the null hypothesis of this experiment cannot be disproven. This voids the hypothesis stating that the fiddler crab population at Spermaceti Cove would increase as the years go on. The population of Uca minax  fiddler crabs at Spermaceti Cove on Sandy Hook, New Jersey shows no significant change over the years. The data collected