Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities

Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities — page 7
Processing A process is a series of related actions or steps that scientists take to get to an outcome In urban ecology processing refers to the steps we take to collect data when we are sampling individual animals plants or people in a population Many types of information can be collected during processing An ecologist might want to know how old an animal is how heavy it is and its sex male or female They might collect several different samples from an individual including fur blood or urine They might also want to tag the animal or plant so they can identify it later Processing the Fredericton sixth graders might involve taking their names so we know who we’ve measured measuring their heights and recording what school they were from Results Results are the end or outcome of an experiment or sampling In the plant experiment the result would be seeing which plant the one with light or the one without grew taller In the example with our sixth graders the result would be the average height calculated from the data we collected 6