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Numbers, Spreadsheets and Graphs:  8 Tips to Effectively Record and Present the Things You Do Every Day

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Numbers, Spreadsheets and Graphs:  8 Tips to Effectively Record and Present the Things You Do Every Day

Kailen Gilde, Georgia Aquarium


Information is critical to maintaining healthy aquatic environments, and most of the tasks that people in zoological roles perform can be tracked, analyzed, reported and stored. Effectively managing data streamlines workflow, reduces analysis time, reveals trends and optimizes processes. Clear presentation makes information easier to understand, and tailoring presentations to different audiences increases the information’s persuasive ability. This presentation will cover 8 tips on working with and presenting data, with each step illustrated using an example data set from Georgia Aquarium. Topics covered will include properly setting up a spreadsheet for different applications, the practical use of basic statistics and programming, and advanced graphing techniques. Microsoft Excel will be used due to its universality, but the principals covered apply to any platform. No prior knowledge of statistics, programming or data management is required, however a basic understanding of Excel will be assumed. ​

Emerging Techniques for Quantifying Environmental Quality

Emerging Techniques for Quantifying Environmental Quality

Mark Smith, New England Aquarium


As an industry we are accustomed to measuring ‘standard’ environmental parameters for the animals in our care, such as nutrients, temperature, pH, etc. However, there are a number of other more esoteric, yet cheap and easy to measure, parameters that can give great insight into the quality of the environment. Examples include: atmospheric CO2, pH differential, and sand grain angularity. In addition, the development of mechanisms to quantify otherwise descriptive data can provide a valuable means to reveal trends and target trouble-shooting activities within living systems. Two examples include the development of a disease condition scale and the examination of relative biological loads within a dynamic system. Critical to the successful implementation of these techniques is a robust mechanism to feed collected information back into the operation of the living systems.

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