I spent today learning more about my project and meeting quite a few people in my faculty and school. Over here, you belong to a faculty (I'm in the Faculty of Computing, Health and Science), and then a school (I'm in the School of Natural Sciences). I've started my literature review, which it seems will be quite extensive (because this hasn't been studied here before, my supervisors basically said I need to get all the information I need to understand the newest information about this type of stuff, because my project will probably go further than what has already been reported). I met a bunch of the administrative staff of the school, including the Student Support Officer who Mark (my principle supervisor and also the Head of the School) said would become my best friend haha. It's kind of interesting over here, because professors and staff at the schools only introduce themselves by first name - it's Australian custom at universities, etc. to not use "Mr.", "Dr.", etc.
Here's a little bit of an update with regards to my project itself for those of you who want lots of information! These are the Spoonbill Lakes (above), located about 15 minutes or so south of Joondalup. Side note: the suffix "up" basically means "lake" in the native language that predominated this area - that's why so many places (like Joondalup) have that suffix. Okay, the Spoonbill Lakes are pretty much a view into below-ground water. The water flows westerly and continues under new housing divisions, etc. It's as you pass the highway that they originally decided to build a "constructed" wetland to help with treating surface run-off.
This wetland is in Gwelup. I call it "constructed", because all that implies in this case is that they dug and whole and stuck some wetland vegetation in the whole and decided it was fixing the problem. To the west of the road is a channel that the water takes to flow into the wetland. It's the Gwelup wetland I will be studying, because it's somewhat set-up for this type of use already. Because of the low rainfall that comes here in the summer, it's perfect for taking measurements with low and high waterflow entering through the channel. It also only has the one main channel so it's easier to measure concentrations that enter and leave the wetland. As you might be able to see from the Google Earth images, the wetland doesn't look to great (but neither do a lot of the lakes around here!), and you can see some of the iron contamination, etc. in the red colouring of the water. So I'll be spending lots of time in Gwelup probably!
In other news, the program End Note has become my new best friend. I'm very excited that I no longer have to format my own references, and that I can just click to add references to my work and have the computer automatically format a reference list however I want it to be done.
It was about 25 Celsius today at lunch, which was somewhat of a welcome change. I know I shouldn't be complaining about warm weather, but I prefer this temperature over 40+ degrees. There's something about 40+ temperatures that makes you want to just stay inside...today was a good day for going outside!
Dinner time! Talk to you all later!
Joondalup Central Park on the way back to campus from the mall.
Here's a little bit of an update with regards to my project itself for those of you who want lots of information! These are the Spoonbill Lakes (above), located about 15 minutes or so south of Joondalup. Side note: the suffix "up" basically means "lake" in the native language that predominated this area - that's why so many places (like Joondalup) have that suffix. Okay, the Spoonbill Lakes are pretty much a view into below-ground water. The water flows westerly and continues under new housing divisions, etc. It's as you pass the highway that they originally decided to build a "constructed" wetland to help with treating surface run-off.
This wetland is in Gwelup. I call it "constructed", because all that implies in this case is that they dug and whole and stuck some wetland vegetation in the whole and decided it was fixing the problem. To the west of the road is a channel that the water takes to flow into the wetland. It's the Gwelup wetland I will be studying, because it's somewhat set-up for this type of use already. Because of the low rainfall that comes here in the summer, it's perfect for taking measurements with low and high waterflow entering through the channel. It also only has the one main channel so it's easier to measure concentrations that enter and leave the wetland. As you might be able to see from the Google Earth images, the wetland doesn't look to great (but neither do a lot of the lakes around here!), and you can see some of the iron contamination, etc. in the red colouring of the water. So I'll be spending lots of time in Gwelup probably!
In other news, the program End Note has become my new best friend. I'm very excited that I no longer have to format my own references, and that I can just click to add references to my work and have the computer automatically format a reference list however I want it to be done.
It was about 25 Celsius today at lunch, which was somewhat of a welcome change. I know I shouldn't be complaining about warm weather, but I prefer this temperature over 40+ degrees. There's something about 40+ temperatures that makes you want to just stay inside...today was a good day for going outside!
Dinner time! Talk to you all later!
Joondalup Central Park on the way back to campus from the mall.
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