Links
Collaborators and colleagues
Monarda citrodora, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, OK
Statistical Analysis
Jack Weiss’s Statistics Lectures: 145 and 563
Seminar Series
UNC Lunch Bunch seminar series schedule
UNC Ecology Curriculum seminar series schedule
Patch-burning history at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage Co., OK from 1998 to 2007
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences sponsored science talks
Data Links
Ecological Data Portal – an ambitious and exciting effort to share ecological data
Global Population Dynamics Database
Blogs
Oikos Blog – ecology, evolution, progress in science
Deep-Sea News – ecology, marine organisms, environmental issues
Jabberwocky – ecology, science, academia
R bloggers – aggregate feed of about 100 different R blogs
Eat More cookies - natural history with a bias towards birds
Furman cougar – tracking mountain lions in New Mexico
Analysis/Graphics/Presentations
R Color Chart – check out the pdf on this page for the full named R color template, helpful for making those graphs pretty!
Color Schemes Appropriate for Scientific Data Graphics – the R package dichromat provides easy access to these schemes
Color Brewer - helps to choose pleasing color schemes for graphics, see the related R package: RColorBrewer
Color Scheme Designer – same as above, use the output RGB values on this website with the R function ‘rgb()’ to bring the colors into your graphics
Science Photo – decent source for science images for presentations – medium size images are typically free with a watermark
iecology – Some great time-lapse and panoramic images here of natural systems and phenomena
Making Maps
Map Projections by Peter H. Dana
Map Projections in Java – once loaded this interactive java applet visually demonstrates how projections differ from the true spherical earth
Map Projections advice from the USGS – has a lot of good information and a nice table that summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of many projections
