Your video was super helpful! I am admittedly terribly at taking notes and my sketches wildly vary but you really laid out what i should be focusing in on
I'm glad it was useful. My first field notes were terrible, it's just lots of practice to get them good. I always forgot that the notes don't have to be perfect, but they do have to be useful.
Have fun! Remember that good quality observations will get you lots of marks and a good grade even if your final interpretation is wrong (they are always wrong, my first one was terrible). :)
You don't need to refine the notebook as it is a record of the field work. It just needs to be in a format you can easily extract information from. If you do add notes later, put a date and note with them to show they have been added at a later date.
I've never used them tbh. I like to do things by hand because I enjoy it and the connection of pencil and paper helps with my thinking. I know colleagues that use those apps and really like them though. It comes down to what works best for you in each situation.
However.... Darwin's tutor Adam Sedgwick didn't think the young Charles have much talent as he was a bit rubbish at geological maps...but perhaps the exception
Geology needs [desperately] good science communicators.. keep up the good work, and I say that as an enthusiastic film maker of the joy of geology. AND as an example I am on Arran, following in your footsteps and I cannot find the detail you point out..I can do the general, and the awe but will have to point out how the pros do geology..best Jules
Your video was super helpful! I am admittedly terribly at taking notes and my sketches wildly vary but you really laid out what i should be focusing in on
I'm glad it was useful. My first field notes were terrible, it's just lots of practice to get them good. I always forgot that the notes don't have to be perfect, but they do have to be useful.
Tomorrow I'm going to have my first assessed field rip and your video is really helpful! Thank you, keep up the humor :D
Have fun! Remember that good quality observations will get you lots of marks and a good grade even if your final interpretation is wrong (they are always wrong, my first one was terrible). :)
i came back from a field trip from the isle of arran, how should i refine my field notebook
You don't need to refine the notebook as it is a record of the field work. It just needs to be in a format you can easily extract information from. If you do add notes later, put a date and note with them to show they have been added at a later date.
What do you think of apps like field geologist etc?
I've never used them tbh. I like to do things by hand because I enjoy it and the connection of pencil and paper helps with my thinking. I know colleagues that use those apps and really like them though. It comes down to what works best for you in each situation.
However.... Darwin's tutor Adam Sedgwick didn't think the young Charles have much talent as he was a bit rubbish at geological maps...but perhaps the exception
Geology needs [desperately] good science communicators.. keep up the good work, and I say that as an enthusiastic film maker of the joy of geology.
AND as an example I am on Arran, following in your footsteps and I cannot find the detail you point out..I can do the general, and the awe but will have to point out how the pros do geology..best Jules
Thanks! Keep looking, the longer you look the more the little details pop out!