40 CWMP 2013-2014 Winter Field Season Report
Observer Reliability
Following the standard photo-documentation procedures for the project, photograph the
first set of tracks you record on each side of your transect. Photographs should include
one individual track or two together (such as a front and hind from an indirect register).
Select tracks that will be clearest in photograph. Take multiple photos ensure you get a
good exposure if needed. Also photograph any additional evidence used to positively
identify the tracks.
When out of the field label each photograph with:
"OR" (observer reliability), transect name, side of highway, date
example: OR.PriceNobleWest.N.23DEC2011.jpg
If you take multiple photographs in the field, select the best photographs of the collection
to send to David Moskowitz. It must be of the first data point you collect on each side of
the highway. Email images from each transect leg to Moskowitz_david@hotmail.com.
Include any other information you used to come up with your identification as pertinent.
After your visit
1) Handing in you data: Team-leaders are responsible for recording data
sheets and entering handwritten data onto the Google data form. This can
be done from any computer with internet access, including the project
computer available at the SnoValley Coffee shop in the town of
Snoqualmie. Data sheets should be left in the binder/tray after data has
been entered. It is requested that team-leaders enter their day's data
within 24 hours or by the end of the weekend, to ensure no data is lost.
See Appendix 3.
2) Email brief report of visit to all team leaders. Since it is likely that other
groups will visit your sites following your visit, please pass on information about
the site. The next team will greatly benefit from a brief report, including site
conditions, what you learned about animals in the area, topography, dangers, and
any outstanding questions. Please email all team-leaders a description of your
visit with any heads-up about the site when you've entered the data at SnoValley
Coffee.
3) Email David your Observer Reliability photographs.
