| Week starting | Time at the weekend (weeks) from start. | Activity | What's due? To Prof Tyson by e-mail. | Brief description of reports | |||||||
| Jan 30th | 0.5 | Recruit | |||||||||
| Feb 6th | 1.5 | Recruit and form groups | |||||||||
| Feb 13th | 2.5 | Group get together: work on background paper: discuss project. | |||||||||
| Feb 20th | 3.5 | 2/21 All-group meeting: work on background paper: discuss project | |||||||||
| Background Paper | |||||||||||
| Feb 27th | 4.5 | Work on background paper: plan experiments | Background paper midnight 3/5 | The report on the background material should be about 500 words long and contain 7-10 links to websites of relevance. | |||||||
| Mar 6th | 5.5 | Work on measurement report: plan inititial experiments | |||||||||
| Measurement of arsenic | Participation report | ||||||||||
| Mar 13th | 6.5 | 3/14 All-group meeting. Work on measurement report: initial experiments | Measurement paper and participation report midnight 3/16 | The report on the measurement technique or procedure should be about 500 words long and contain at least one diagram and 2 links to relevant websites. | Brief report from each member of the group on the extent of participation by each of the other members. | ||||||
| Mar 20th | Spring break | ||||||||||
| Mar 27th | 7.5 | work on proposal: initial experiments | |||||||||
| Wednesday March 29th | 8 | Drop with W deadline | |||||||||
| Proposal | |||||||||||
| Apr 3rd | 8.5 | Work on proposal: initial experiments | Proposal midnight 4/9 | The proposal should be about 750 words long. | |||||||
| Apr 10th | 9.5 | 4/11 All-group meeting. Research | |||||||||
| Apr 17th | 10.5 | Research | |||||||||
| Apr 24th | 11.5 | Research | |||||||||
| May 1st | 12.5 | Research | |||||||||
| May 8th | 13.5 | Research: work on final report | |||||||||
| May 15th | 14.0 on 5/17 | 5/16 All-group meeting. Work on final report | |||||||||
| Final report | |||||||||||
| May 22nd | 15.5 | Work on final report, individual report and questionnaire | Group Report, individual report, questionnaire midnight 5/26 | Final report should be in the form of a journal article. Guidelines are provided on website. Look at previous reports. |