Our group project doesn' t going as well as we cxpected. The real condition is much more complicated than we think. We need to reconsider our experiment and even change our topic.
We decided to do research on "wind resistant plants" at the beginning. We planned to use some plants from the research forest to do indoor experiment by exposing these plans to artificial wind (use a fan) for a whole day and to see how these plants doing under wind. By comparing this group of plants to a another control group, which was treated normally, we can know which species are more resistant to wind and which are not. So the result of this experiment can be appllied into the management of shelter forest to miminze the danmage of Typhoon.
However, our experiments are too ideal that we didn't consider the real situation. We we took a walk along the trails in forests, we found that our experiment is not able to accomplish by the following reasons:
- Due to the limitation of our experimental condition, we could only do indoor experiments on small plants, which means our experiment is not that meaningful because small plants are not that importan for wind preventing. Because during a big Typhoon, the most damage part is all the big trees other than small plants.
- It is impossible for us to find plants have same size, sutiable height and with mutiple individules for each species, and are also in good conditions.
- We can not totally mimic the natural condition of wind. That means our experiment are not that scientific and can not be applied in real life.
When we realized that our origional thoughs can not be put into experiment, everone is disappointed especially me. Because I proposed this idea and I think I have to take the most responsility to help overcome difficulties to make our project going well. I don't want to disppoint my groupmates and myself. I like this topic, all my group members and teachers are also like this topic!! We really want to do it!!!
But the reality is cruel, we have to change the topic. We discussed again for a long time and still can not get a good result.
Luckily, today we talked to Judy, who is my schoolmate and just graduated from UBC this year. She gave us a new idea and suggested us to do our research based on observation rather than experiment.
Finally!!! All the things are going on the right track and start to coming out. Our new topic is still tough but all my groupmates are hardworking and quite contributed!!! I love to work together with them!!!!
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