Final Poster

I'm very happy with how my poster came out! This was definitely an interesting experience and such a great semester. :)

Blog Post 8

The feedback I got from class about my draft was very helpful. I'm currently working on changing some small things that were suggested during class that will make the poster neater. Can't wait to see how it finally comes out!

Blog Post 7

Rough draft of the map!

Blog Post 6

So far mapping is going well. I have the coordinate points for each well site of the water district. I was able to get them by comparing the map I have from the water district and where the points are on that map with the addresses on the water district website. The website didn't have specific addresses, just the street names, so I had to "guestimate" where exactly to put the points using Google Maps. But comparing what I have now to the map from the water district, I'd say they're pretty close!

I finished going over chapter 12 and am pretty familiar with editing now so my next task is to use the editing tools to draw a polygon for the approximate area of the chemical plume. My map will not be a replication of the map that I received from the water district because that map was created in 2010 and the plume has migrated since then. Since there is no updated map of what the plume looks like, my map will be an estimate of what the plume looks like currently. 

Blog Post 5

The meeting I had with the superintendent of the Bethpage Water District went pretty well. He was able to give me a lot of information about the work they're doing to monitor and clean up the chemical plumes present and even showed me maps that had been made a few years ago. He even gave me some ideas of mapping the plume as a solid polygon or using contour lines (but not actually contour lines) to show the different depths of the plume throughout Bethpage. However he was not able to give me an actual data set of the location of the plume. He had given me maps from 2010 and had suggested to draw up one of them, but expanding on it because the plume has expanded and migrated a significant amount since 2010. I am a little unsure of how I will be able to simply just draw an outline for a polygon to create this map. Also, this week is extremely busy and packed with tests and assignments so I am really unsure of how much of this project I will get done this week. Hopefully next week won't be as hectic and I will be able to spend a lot of time working on this map.