I am reading through my teaching evaluations from last year. I have to say, I am truly touched and appreciative of the students I have had. Needless to say, there are some negatives that I need to work on, but... Continue Reading →
I think all other shapes with radial symmetry are lower resolution circles. Sent from my iPad
While working with the BREEF http://www.breef.org ConZoovation Summer camp at Ardastra Gardens http://www.ardastra.com in 2012 the keepers told me they had a hummingbird that had gotten caught in a spider web. For me, saving Webber (the name I gave him while... Continue Reading →
I often end up speaking to students about where I got my start in environmental science and there are definitely several turning points. Surely the first step was the Royal Botanical Gardens in Nassau Bahamas. Mommy worked there most of my... Continue Reading →
So, you are a scientist. For many of us that means the drive to publish scientific papers in serial literature such as journals. However, as a naturalist or scientist that blends science with other disciplines, how will you stack up... Continue Reading →
I need a way to compartmentalize or rationalize the different people I am seeing around me. Especially when two of those people share the same body.
We can't just go protecting habitat and sites willy-Nilly. this thing goes with sense, so I am using GEE to create habitat maps. Then I look at which species are using the habitat using R and GEPHI to create network... Continue Reading →
I have information for the observers that have surveyed locations in a given habitat, and of course the species they saw and the locations they conducted the surveys at. I am interpreting the observer as a species and their abundance... Continue Reading →
So, really, I just wrote a function in R to apply the jaccard similarity function to all possible pairs in a series of columns from a data frame and spit out the result in a matrix. I am pretty happy... Continue Reading →
