Rogat+-+Memo+-+Study+Components

Michelle Rogat

Study Components


 * need to focus on the structure of the research, and the thesis question and problem that's being focused on, then what sections of literature are needed to build towards this, what do I still need to look into, what components are missing?


 * map out all of people involved - reach out to them and make sure I can interview them
 * "green" restaurants - Pig Pit, find out more from asking the compost collection table at the Troy's Riverfront Farmers' Market
 * schuyler meadows, possibly other GC's and CC's
 * Paul Murphy and his network
 * NYSERDA professionals
 * Interviews
 * Develop tailored interview questions for the different groups of people
 * Reach out to these different groups of people asking for an interview
 * Carry out these interviews - record them
 * Write follow up thank you cards/emails to the interviewees
 * Break down the interview transcripts for different types of information and catalog them
 * need to write annotations and educate self on:
 * resistance to change - FINISH READING "Getting Green Done" by Schendler, "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?", go back over "Truth About Green Business"
 * look into their references to lead to any more information
 * studies of golf courses
 * map out literature map
 * and then go over notes that were taken from the articles to see if I missed any ideas I might have jotted down when reading
 * map out stakeholders map of who is involved in the research overall, then within the country club itself as well
 * Research on more funding opportunities
 * At the Country Club
 * send out permission email to president and house committee members
 * set up an interview with them
 * talk with the separate department heads to just get an understanding of practice first
 * take a tour of the place with each of them and have them point things out to me - maybe do this at the end of the interviews with each of them?
 * reflect on past instances at the club that had an environmental impact for the describing events info
 * like the ordering and changing colors of the uniforms
 * redoing the roof last year, how did they go about that process?
 * any bad flooding situations in the past? and how was it dealt with? what were the issues it involved and where did they stem from?
 * why does the club pump water from the pond to water around the house at some points? I know issues with that involved the water had stained the house a grimy yellow and it had to be repainted
 * aerification of the greens
 * members fixing the ball marks they make, are they cooperative?
 * get as much file information from the club as possible from everything to inventories to the buildings' infrastructure and more
 * study this information and select out things that could possibly be future projects
 * study this information and select out things that could possibly be future projects