Completing Studies to Support Compliance Obligations

Using examples from resource-based industries, we will review the steps required to produce a study, such as:

• identifying the purpose of study;
• developing objectives/hypotheses;
• determining the methodology (e.g. information review, sampling, observations, experiments, etc.);
• collection and analysis of data;
• comparing results (i.e. standards, baseline/background/reference site data); and
• reporting.