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Chapter 10

from Part II - Doing Environmental Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Tara Ivanochko
Tara Ivanochko
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

Environmental data is more than a bunch of numbers. Meaningful information about the natural world is embedded in those numbers as patterns, cycles, trends, changes, and events. Arranging your data in different ways can highlight different features of the phenomena captured by your data set. This dual aspect of a data set is its power: data is quantifiable information. You can describe the key features of your data set using words, but you can also quantify, or characterize, critical information using numbers, mathematical equations, or statistical concepts.

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Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science , pp. 133 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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References

Keeling, C. D., Piper, S. C., Bacastow, R. B. et al. (2001). Exchanges of atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 with the terrestrial biosphere and oceans from 1978 to 2000. I. Global aspects, SIO Reference Series, No. 01-06, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, 88pp.Google Scholar
Krivanek, J. and Whitehouse, T. (2017). 2017 In-season Escapement Estimates of Fraser River Salmon at Qualark Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) Site with Test Fishing Results and Species Apportionment. 2017 Project Report to the Southern Boundary Restoration and Enhancement Fund. Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Available at www.psc.org/Google Scholar

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  • Tara Ivanochko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
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