P3 FIELDWORK

• Why Sheringham?


  • Local - can get there and back in under a day
  • Has multiple survey points - can collect a range of data
  • Safe - minimised risk
• Risks


  • Slipped - grippy shoes
  • Drowned - stay away from water
  • Sun burn - wear sun cream
  • Run over due to narrow pavements - be sensible, single file line
• Human Primary Data collection - Counting cars

  1. More electric cars - more environmentally sustainable

  2. Both model boat park park and trainstation car park

  3. Disables spaces - tally chart

  4. More disabled spaces - more socially sustainable
• Human secondary data - Bus timetable

  1. More public transport - more sustainable

  2. School bus, weekday to Norwich
• Pie charts


  • Easy to read
  • Easy to compare
• Physical data collection - Primary

  1. Measured depth of sediment on west and east side of each groyne

  2. Couldn't get all the way to bottom of groyne - tide

  3. Control LSD

  4. Drew cliff - No groynes there - Shows effect of groynes as without them erosion occurs, Boulder clay, glacial till
• Physical - Secondary data

  Tide times
• Data representation


  1. Groynes - bar chart avg

  2. Annotated field sketch
• Human


  Is the transport in Sheringham sustainable?
• Physical


  Are the groynes at sheringham controlling long shore drift?