IA Geography IA PLEASE HELPP

[Madison Andrews]

Hello, so I am struggling on Formulating  my geography IA research question. My Internal assessment is related to the Freshwater: Issues and Conflicts Objective 3: Management issues and Strategies. My aim is Examine the hydrological changes resulting from the construction of dams and reservoirs. Thus, I did some research and found interest in the Colorado River Basin. I came with research question: What is the connection between the development of Glen Canyon Dam and hydrology changes or (hydrologic activity) not sure which sounds better?... in the Colorado River Basin? Anyways, Is my question good? Is it good for an investigation? Will I be able to find useful information such a graphs to include in my IA.

 Thanks!   

[theboro76]

Hey. Sorry, this might be a bit late for it to be any use.

I recently finished my IA in rivers. I think your question definetly has potential and is fine. I probabaly wouldn't use the word 'development', to me it suggests the actual process of building it, not the actual dam itself (which I assume is what you would be looking at). I might go with: What effect does  the Glen canyon dam have on changes in the hydrology of the (Collorado?) river? But your question seems perfectly fine.

Beyond that it is best to become more specific; what aspect of the hydrology do you want to investigate? I would choose between 1-3 and look at them, depending on what your looking at.

In terms of graphs, it depends on how your are investigating it. Upon reading your question, my initial feeling was that you would want to measure a few spots above and below and see if the dame obviously breaks the trend. Assuming your going for quantitative varuables this would give you plenty to graph, otherwise it is still difficult, but you might have to go for a non-scatter plot. If you give me more info about how/what your going to investigate, I might be able to come up with more specific suggestions.