This page will eventually become a collection of my reviews of Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in the Bahamas. The links lead to a Science and Perspective copy of the EIA as published, then a link to my comments on the EIA as submitted to the developer and the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection. I will also include a brief summary of the EIA. Enjoy.

  • Where did this start? Part 1…

    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 Primary school days (Yes I still call her “Mommy”, but bahamians pronounce it more like…

  • Books versus serial literature

    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 when it comes time to seek tenure (if that is what you are after?) To…

  • People can be more than one thing…

    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.

  • Network maps from Google Earth Engine, R and GEPHI

    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 maps. Maybe you are interested in species that use the Detroit River Valley and also…

  • R Code for using functions by columns in a data set

    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 is measured as the number of minutes they spend or the number of surveys they…