ESH Oceanography 1 Lab Write-Up
1. Download and save the ESH Oceanography 1 Lab Data Tables and Analysis Questions Document from Schoepp
Web.
2. You are going to insert all of your data and answers in this document to upload into Turnitin.
Pie chart for percentage of total mass of dissolved salts:
1. Select “Microsoft office excel” program
2. In column A, you are going to list the salts you added to make your saltwater (obtained from Date Table 1:
Conductivity of Seawater)
3. In column A, row 1, cell 1 type “sodium chloride”
4. In column A, row 2, cell 1type “magnesium chloride”
5. Continue to list all of the salts you used in the lab.
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Put your cursor over the “A” in column A and left click. This will highlight the entire column.
7. Right click and a drop down menu will appear. Select column width. Put in “20”for the width. Select OK.
8. In column B, type in the masses of each salt.
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9. Left click and select both columns of cells (the salts and their masses) that contain the data you want to use to
make your chart.
10. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon
11. Click Pie to add a pie chart and select the first 2D chart.
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12. Click the Layout tab, click the Chart Title button. Select “above chart”. Type in a title for your chart.
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13. You can now copy this pie chart and insert it in your document (lab report) for question 1.
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Line Graphing
1. You can use Excel to easily generate line graphs.
2. For question 18, you need to generate two separate line graphs.
3. For your Salinity vs. Dissolved Oxygen graph, open another sheet in Excel by selecting “Sheet 2”.
4. Enter your salinity data in column A.
5. Enter you amount of dissolved oxygen in column B.
6. Right click and select both columns of cells (salinity and dissolved oxygen) that contain the data you want to use
to make your graph.
7. Right click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
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8. Right click Scatter with straight lines and markers.
9. Under Chart Layouts, select Layout 1.
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Click on your chart title to edit the title.
Click on each axis title to add axis titles (with units).
Click on the key (“series 1”) and delete the key.
You can now copy this line graph and insert it in your document (lab report) for question 18.
Follow the same procedure to generate a line graph for pH vs. Dissolved oxygen.
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