Exercise 1

Planning

You are the local ISC Manager and, because of the success of the lesson plans and community surveys, 10 more schools on your island would like to set up their own projects the following year. You would like to accommodate them, but your ISC funding will expire at the end of this year. HISC has indicated that they will look favourably on a small grant application to expand your programs in the following year and BIISC has offered support.

Exercise 1a

Analyse the financial implications of expanding the number of schools

  1. Evaluate the following options to expand the number of participating schools. You can only select TWO of these options, so you need to choose wisely.

  2. Use the exercise sheet to provide your answers.

Options

  1. Pay extra summer interns to work at the local ISC to coordinate surveys .

  2. Offer financial support to BIISC to set up websites for each new school.

  3. Offer financial compensation to the graduate students. You will not be able to pay all four of them the equivalent of a regular salary, but could cover the costs of part time positions for two of them.

  4. Contract a software company to build a database that can automatically ingest data directly from the online form. The system will include an admin interface to allow data manipulation and csv exports.

  5. Fund four public outreach activities (e.g., a BioBlitz) to promote awareness in the communities and increase volunteer participation.

  6. Prepare and carry out a reusable training a course for the teachers at the schools to teach them how to prepare data for submission to BIISC.

Exercise 1b

Assign roles

The new project has the following people available for data processing and mobilization.

  1. Assign roles to maximize the efficiency of the data processing and transformation to produce data of the highest quality as efficiently as possible?

  2. Use the exercise sheet to provide your answers.

Roles

  • BIISC GIS Analyst: Advanced computer use, GIS and data analysis tools.

  • ISC Manager: Good computer skills.

  • ISC Outreach Associate: Good field identification skills; Basic computer use. Social media expert.

  • Student Mentor 1: Basic taxonomic knowledge. Basic computer use.

  • Student Mentor 2: Basic taxonomic knowledge. Basic computer use.

  • Botany Student 1: Advanced taxonomic knowledge. Programming skills.

  • Botany Student 2: Advanced taxonomic knowledge.

  • Botany Student 3: Advanced taxonomic knowledge.

  • Botany student 4: Advanced taxonomic knowledge.

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