By the @EEB_POC team From Dynamic Ecology Note from Meghan Duffy: This guest post is a revised version of one that briefly appeared last month. Over the past few months society has once again had to face the stark inequities that disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and other racial minorities. The senseless murders of Ahmaud Arbery,…
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Vandermeer and Perfecto Labs hold annual educational day with local schoolchildren in Mexico
SEAS Professor Ivette Perfecto (with arms raised) and EEB Professor John Vandermeer play an ecological game with the children during Ecodia. Image credit this page: Jonno Morris EcoDía is an educational outreach event developed each year since 2017 for the primary school students at the Finca Irlanda school (the coffee farm where the labs of…
8th Annual BioBlitz
by Naim Edwards, director, Michigan State University-Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning and Innovation and University of Michigan EEB alumnus (MS 2014) On May 11, University of Michigan students and faculty partnered, with Michigan State University Extension, the Great Lakes Regional Center of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and members of the Detroit Black Community Food…
Field botany videos (Lecythidaceae)
From the CW Dick Lab blog 2018 Lecythidaceae crew (left to right) Chris, Tamara, Drew, Nicolli, Priscila, Paulo, Cunha. by Christopher William Dick, University of Michigan professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Summary: This post links to videos of Lecythidaceae tree species identifications from the Brazilian Amazon. The videos should be useful for students of…
Introductions
Amy-Charlotte Devitz and her sweet service pup, Fish From The Bendy Biologist by Amy-Charlotte Devitz, a University of Michigan Frontiers Master’s Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology It took me a long time to decide if I wanted to start blogging again. I had a blog several years ago but it was heavily centered on…
When learning R (or any other new task), it’s okay to start small: aim for improvement, not perfection
Julian Paren / Fair Isle knitwear in the Shetland Museum / CC BY-SA 2.0 via wikimedia.org From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology When I first thought about switching to R and doing reproducible data analysis, the idea was daunting. As…
Logistics behind field experiment (Part II)
by Sara Colom, graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan Aside from a good experimental design (see Part I blog for tips), a crucial component for a successful field experiment is management of materials, time and help (i.e., volunteers, hired help). Some ideas, when first verbalized seem…
Four easy tips for preparing a field experiment (Part I)
by Sara Colom, graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan Preparing a successful field project can be boiled down into two major themes, a good experimental design and organization of time and materials. To keep things short and sweet I will go over the experimental design here…
UMich SEEDS partners with D-Town Farm for 2018 BioBlitz
BioBlitz attendees circle up to share lessons from the event. Photo Credit: Naim Edwards by Naim Edwards (UM EEB M.S. 2014) Director, Michigan State University Detroit Partnership in Food, Learning and Innovation and Tiffany Carey, previously science outreach coordinator, U-M EEB Nyeema Harris AWE Lab and currently, Habitat and Education Coordinator, National Wildlife Foundation, Great…
Why you should be trained in mental health first aid
From My OCD Voice, a blog about mental health by Morgan Rondinelli, a U-M EEB undergraduate student Are you trained in first aid? Now I don’t just mean CPR and the Heimlich maneuver. I also mean the lesser known Mental Health First Aid. I had wanted to take a Mental Health First Aid class for…
Introduction to the Teach-In: Reclaiming Our Campus
Aaron King We appreciate Aaron sharing the text of his introduction to the Teach-In: Reclaiming Our Campus, March 15, 2018 by Aaron King, University of Michigan professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; mathematics, Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics We come together at a time in our shared…
Who is ecology’s equivalent of Erdős?
From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Paul Erdős was a prolific Hungarian mathematician who spent much of the later part of his career traveling to visit collaborators around the world. According to his Wikipedia biography, Erdős published around 1,500…
Poll: What’s your preferred teaching arrangement?
From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Recently, there was a twitter discussionabout whether to compress all teaching into one semester. I suspect this discussion is most relevant to folks at research-oriented institutions, since high teaching loads at teaching-oriented institutions…
First EcoDía engages Finca Irlanda students in rich ecology of their home
Pollination games. by Gordon Fitch, a University of Michigan graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology The John Vandermeer lab, along with the lab of Ivette Perfecto at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), has been conducting research in Finca Irlanda, an organic coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for nearly 20…