Measuring Up

ReadAs ONRRI delves into measurement, it will be necessary to develop some real applications that create numbers that people will intuitively understand. The units of measure are extremely important. Putting information into data table and making a display that accurately presents the information helps to pursuade an audience to accept your point of view. There is nothing like good data to prove a point.
ThisTo this end, Dr. Lenny has been collecting spreadsheet data in nearly a dozen different areas. i have two fantasy baseball teams that each have daily statistical updates. The 162 games season is awesome - science league will have a similar diligence. There is gas mileage statistics on the car 150,000 miles and breeding statistics on the satin rabbits. Daily tracking commodity prices for precious metals and internet mail spam counts provide two more data sets. And finally - there are 28 homegrown compost piles over the past six years. We also have data sets for carbon accumulation in trees and the entire ONRRI Zone performance scoring system. Not to mention the Starweb extra long death battle.
PostDr Lenny crunches as many numbers on a daily basis as anyone, beyond the beancounters. i keep abreast of every field that involves chemistry, as a general specialist of first order. Yesterday in Reedsport, at the Umpqua Discovery Center, ONRRI coordinated two fall zones in oceanography and marine biology for the Coos Bay BLM and Reedsport High School. We also discussed a conductivity study to measure the extent upriver of saline effects and dicussed an aquatic botany lake study to assess invasive plant dynamics with the Siuslaw National Forest.