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est-study-design
Use when designing experiments, sampling campaigns, or modeling studies for Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) so the design survives expert review — environmental relevance, controls, replication, mass/energy balances, and a QA/QC plan built in from the start. It guides design decisions; it does not run the study.
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# Study Design (est-study-design)
ES&T reviewers are demanding about whether a design can actually support its environmental claim.
The failure modes are predictable: unrealistic conditions, missing controls, no replication, an
unclosed mass balance, or QA/QC bolted on after the fact. Design to pre-empt them. Execution and
reporting of results live in `est-data-analysis`.
## When to trigger
- Planning a lab/mesocosm/field study, sampling campaign, or modeling experiment
- Choosing concentrations, matrices, controls, replicates, and endpoints
- Setting up the QA/QC and mass/energy-balance plan before generating data
- A reviewer questioned environmental relevance, controls, or replication
