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Interpreting and Presenting Data
Baseline and Hotspot Monitoring
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Define questions
Collect water quality data
Manage data
Interpret data
Present data
TAKE ACTION!
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Steps for Data Interpretation1. Go back to your original question2. Describe the data3. Play with data graphically4. Plug in additional information5. Summarize conclusions and further
questions
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Sample baseline questions:• What are summer dissolved oxygen levels on
Gallagher Slough? Are oxygen concentrations high enough to support salmon?
• How do bacteria concentrations on Beaver Creek compare with the state standard for water contact recreation?
• Do pH concentrations on Birch Creek exceed the state standard? If so, when?
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Descriptive Statistics• What is the “central tendency”? (mean,
median, mode)• How does one reading compare to the rest?
(50th, 75th, 25th percentiles)• What’s the variation? (range, variance,
standard deviation)
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Compare using box and whisker plot
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If you have a lot of data, collected regularly, it may be useful to see how the data are distributed. When is this NOT useful?
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Arrange Data Graphically• Identify patterns and trends• Quickly confirm or disprove hypotheses• Discover new phenomena• Identify potential problems with data
collection• Communicate initial results to partners,
funders, etc. “Gasp”I can’t believe my eyes!
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Examples of Useful Graphs
• Box-and-whisker plot• Scatter plot• Time plot
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Example:• What are summer dissolved oxygen
concentrations on Gallagher Slough? Are concentrations high enough to support salmon?
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Plot data against time
What are summer dissolved oxygen levels on Gallagher Slough? Are oxygen concentrations high enough to support salmon?
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What baseline / standard are you using?• A biological baseline• A water quality standard• Other• Go back to your original question
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What else do you know about DO that can help you answer your question?
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What else do you know?
• Warmer water can hold less DO• Algae give off oxygen when they respire
during the day• Algae use oxygen when they decompose• DO concentrations can be lowest late at
night
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What other information might be helpful?
• Temperature data• Flow information• Site characteristics• Observations about the stream reach
(Visible algae? Obvious nutrient sources?)
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Challenges for Interpreting Data• Available resources (can’t monitor
continuously everywhere)• Hard to pinpoint location and timing of
extremes• May have to do some hypothesizing
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Identifying Hot Spots
• Identifying reaches with high / low readings• Identifying sites with very high / low
readings• Comparing results from different sites
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Comparing Sites
• Graphically• Using tables• Using maps• This is a judgment call
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Box and whisker plot plus standard by each site
Total Phosphorus, Ninilchik River, Alaska
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Data SummarySite Days > 64 F Days >70 F
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Strengths / drawbacks associated with this method?
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Sites that violate the bacteria quality standard in August
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Summary for Data Interpretation1. Go back to your original question2. Describe the data3. Play with the data graphically4. Plug in additional information5. Write down your conclusions and further
questions
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Presenting Water Quality Information
Getting Your Message Across
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Planning Your Data Presentation• Focus on your message• Decide on target audience• Decide how the message will be delivered• Pick your time and place
Take home message:
Inform!
Educate!
Persuade!
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Focus on Your Message• Go back to your study
design and results• Review your questions
and conclusions• Stick to them!• Make sure presenter
understands the message
Help! Bacteria levels violate Oregon’s standard!
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Sample messages:
• Stream meets standard for bacteria; BMPscan keep it that way
• Bacteria levels show a risk for swimming• Japanese knotweed is in our area; action is
needed now
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Issue: Mill Creek, which drains a rural-residential area, violates Oregon’s bacteria standard every August. Potential sources include failing septic systems, pets, and wildlife.
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Potential Audience
• Chamber of Commerce• General public• Neighborhood residents• County sanitary program
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Knowledge needed for action:
1. Watershed processes2. Condition of water body3. Causes of current conditions4. Sources of pollution or
related problems5. Consequences6. Solutions
Mill Creek, which drains a rural-residential area, violates Oregon’s bacteria standard every August. Potential sources included failing septic systems, pets, and wildlife.
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Data
Factual information used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation
Information
Communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence
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What motivates people?• Crisis• Enthusiasm• Guilt• Public Image• Self Interest• Help• Fear?
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Choose format to match audience• Slide show?• One-on-one meeting?• Report?• Flyer?• Presentation?• News article?
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Graphics
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Point of no return
CA Dept. of Fish and GameTime
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Maps and Aerial PhotosSource
Transport
Deposition
Stream Reach Types, Cascade Creek
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Bacteria levels violate Oregon’s standard for water recreation in AugustBacteria levels are below Oregon’s standard for water recreation in August
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0-20 NTUs
21-50 NTUs
>50 NTUs
Turbidity during first fall storm, in NTUs
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wetland
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Dissolved Oxygen Concentration
Blind Slough Near Highway 101
Salmon and trout stressed
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A Word On Tables
• Make as simple as possible• Better for an audience already familiar with
what you’re doing• Explain clearly in text or presentation
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Effects of Urbanization on Peak Stream Flows
Year# of Houses
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# of Times Flow>220cfs
# of Times Flow >350cfs
1950 140 None No Data No Data
1955 420 None No Data No Data
1965 780 1958-1967 21 10
1984 2060 1978-1987 73 32
Watts Branch, MD. (Leopold, 1994)220cfs is considered an 1.5 year event
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Photos
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For More InformationReady, Set, Present!
Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership
http://www.umass.edu/tei/mwwp/
(check under manuals and publications)
$5!
Discusses brochures, displays, newsletters…etc.
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In Summary• Plan your strategy• Inform, educate, persuade• Use graphics to strengthen your case
During winter storms, animal waste is washed into the river.