You might try Fulcrum: http://fulcrumapp.com. Alternatively, you could set up a database in FileMaker Pro and enter data in the field using FileMaker Go (http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-go/). I haven't used Fulcrum much yet, but FileMaker Go has served me well.
Jeff Davis Fresno, CA On Apr 29, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Richard Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow Ecologers, > > The other day, I managed to leave my printed data sheets behind when I went > out to a site to collect plant community data. Fortunately, I had my iPod, > and I was able to use Notes to collect the data. My sites have a modified > Whittaker plot design that consists of one large 20x50 m site, with one 5x20 > m, two 2x5, and 10 0.5x2 m plots nested within. For the small 0.5x2 plots, I > estimate coverage using a sampling frame; in all the other sizes, I note > presence/absence. I've also been recording flower/fruiting. > > So Notes worked OK, but I had to type in names for every plot, which was > tedious and slowed me down. The printed data sheets I usually use have > species names for each plot size that occurred in the last sampling season, > because species turn over slowly, and I simply update presence (and percent > coverage in the smallest plots). What I would love is a form-type app that > allowed me to preload species names for the plots, then enter and update > percent cover/presence as appropriate. And if I had to add a new species, I'd > like the flexibility to do that in the field. And I would need something that > can work in the field without a connection but would update when I had a new > connection. > > I've looked in Apple's App store at form apps, but none of them seem to have > what I need. If you know of such an app--or even better, have used such an > app--please let me and the list know. > > Thanks, Rick > > ================================ > Richard L. Boyce, Ph.D. > Director, Environmental Science Program > Professor > Department of Biological Sciences, SC 150 > Northern Kentucky University > Nunn Drive > Highland Heights, KY 41099 USA > > 859-572-1407 (tel.) > 859-572-5639 (fax) > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.nku.edu/~boycer/ > ================================= > > "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making > exciting discoveries." - A.A. Milne
