Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Statistical Consulting at UGA
The UGA Statistics Department has a Statistical Consulting Center to help students, faculty, and other clients develop, analyze, and interpret results for research projects. There is at least one free hour of consultation available to all students, and I've heard most students get two free hours. If you are stuck and need some help working through analyses, this may be a good option. Additional services are available for a fee, which may also be worthwhile from time to time as well. The link for the center is below.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
WGSA Workshop - Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore will be leading a workshop on Access relational databases for our Feb 3rd meeting. Please join us in room 4-132 from 10-11 to learn about why you might need a database, how to create one, and how to use it efficiently. Please see a more detailed description below, and we hope to see you there. As usual, coffee and donuts will be provided.Do you have a project that involves large quantities of data for a variety of parameters? Do you struggle with organizing, updating, or analyzing this data? Then this is the workshop for you! Using Microsoft Access, we will learn the basics of what a database is and the advantages of storing your data in one. We will go through the process of setting up database tables and establishing relationships between them. Finally, we will cover the basics of querying a database.
Please downloads the following files if you want to follow along in the workshop:
BoatRampExample.accdb
Invasive_Mussel_Ex.docx
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
State-space modeling - WGSA workshop
Our first workshop of the spring semester will be led by John Yeiser, PhD student in James Martins' lab. He will be discussing state-space modeling, see the detailed description below with three files to download (linked below) in preparation for the workshop. Please join us Wednesday, January 27th from 10-11 in room 4-132.
State-space models are quickly gaining steam in wildlife science, but what are they? What makes them different from other models? How do we use them? If you’re wanting to learn more about state-space models, models in general, or you’re already a wily modeling veteran who just wants a donut, please consider attending this week’s procaffeination hour workshop. I’ll be focusing mainly on the concepts and reasoning behind state-space models, but I will have an example for people to work through if they’re interested. Hope to see you there.
Data files:
CM.txt
SSM.txt
SSM.R
State-space models are quickly gaining steam in wildlife science, but what are they? What makes them different from other models? How do we use them? If you’re wanting to learn more about state-space models, models in general, or you’re already a wily modeling veteran who just wants a donut, please consider attending this week’s procaffeination hour workshop. I’ll be focusing mainly on the concepts and reasoning behind state-space models, but I will have an example for people to work through if they’re interested. Hope to see you there.
Data files:
CM.txt
SSM.txt
SSM.R
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Warnell 2016 Graduate Student Symposium
January 20-22, 2016
Full Program Information
Program Overview:
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Final Procaffeination Hour of Semester
Friday, Decemeber 4th we will have our final Procaffeination Hour of the semester. This will be a low-key time to chat with fellow grad students, hear more about the symposium, and sign up to help on any committees you might be interested it. We will have donuts and snacks, and coffee, and would love to see as many grad students as possible. If you have a few minutes, stop by! We will be in the 4-132 from 9:30- 1030am.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Friday, November 6: Procaffeination Hour Discussion
Please join us for this week's WGSA Workshop, as Brian Crawford leads a discussion on How to change people’s behavior as it relates to conservation behavior change. This workshop is part of the Procaffeination Hour and will be held in the Dean's Conference Room 2-201A on Friday, November 6, 9:30 am- 10:30 am. Details of the workshop are described below. Hope to see you there!
Do people ever change their behavior? If so, how does this happen in society? If we understand how it happens, should we incorporate efforts to facilitate behavior change into broader conservation strategies? Usually when we think about human behavior in Warnell, it’s associated with development of habitat, overharvesting of resources, spread of invasives, or other actions that put species at risk. Yes, human behaviors are problems that contribute to most of the human-natural resource conflicts we study – but changing these behaviors has been recently emphasized as a crucial component for conservation solutions.
workshop will be an open discussion about how behavior change happens and how we might use this for conservation outcomes. We can all draw from our own projects and interests to discuss how education and outreach, social media, and public involvement can potentially lead to behavior change. If you have time, look over the short (~3pp.) article below to help generate some ideas about behavior change in the context of conservation. Looking forward to it!
Materials: “Conservation Means Behavior” (Schultz 2011)
Do people ever change their behavior? If so, how does this happen in society? If we understand how it happens, should we incorporate efforts to facilitate behavior change into broader conservation strategies? Usually when we think about human behavior in Warnell, it’s associated with development of habitat, overharvesting of resources, spread of invasives, or other actions that put species at risk. Yes, human behaviors are problems that contribute to most of the human-natural resource conflicts we study – but changing these behaviors has been recently emphasized as a crucial component for conservation solutions.
workshop will be an open discussion about how behavior change happens and how we might use this for conservation outcomes. We can all draw from our own projects and interests to discuss how education and outreach, social media, and public involvement can potentially lead to behavior change. If you have time, look over the short (~3pp.) article below to help generate some ideas about behavior change in the context of conservation. Looking forward to it!
Materials: “Conservation Means Behavior” (Schultz 2011)
Monday, October 19, 2015
LaTeX for document preparation
Tiffany Vidal will be discussing how to use LaTeX for this week's WGSA Workshop Series during Friday's (10/23) Procaffeination Hour (9:30-10:30 in the Dean's Conference Room). You can read more about what will be covered and things to do in preparation for the workshop, below.
LaTeX is a document preparation program, and a tool that I have found immensely helpful for writing documents and creating presentations. What I like about LaTeX is that you can control every aspect of the document, but you also don't have to spend a lot of time doing it. Similar to R, there are commands to control format, which can save time and create professional looking documents with ease. The interface is more like programming, but it's not as intimidating as it may seem at first. One of the biggest advantages for me is the ease with which to create equations, insert figures, and keep track of them. For example, the program can number your equations automatically. So, if you move them around they will renumber for you; the same for figures and tables.
This workshop will be an overview of how to get started with LaTeX. We will create a document, add figures and tables, create equations, and add a bibliography. I will come with a list of tasks that I have found useful, and commonly use, but please bring questions and ideas to work on as a group. If you have specific things you know you want to work on, please email me ahead of time so I can make time for it during the workshop.
Before coming to the workshop, please do the following:
LaTeX is a document preparation program, and a tool that I have found immensely helpful for writing documents and creating presentations. What I like about LaTeX is that you can control every aspect of the document, but you also don't have to spend a lot of time doing it. Similar to R, there are commands to control format, which can save time and create professional looking documents with ease. The interface is more like programming, but it's not as intimidating as it may seem at first. One of the biggest advantages for me is the ease with which to create equations, insert figures, and keep track of them. For example, the program can number your equations automatically. So, if you move them around they will renumber for you; the same for figures and tables.
This workshop will be an overview of how to get started with LaTeX. We will create a document, add figures and tables, create equations, and add a bibliography. I will come with a list of tasks that I have found useful, and commonly use, but please bring questions and ideas to work on as a group. If you have specific things you know you want to work on, please email me ahead of time so I can make time for it during the workshop.
Before coming to the workshop, please do the following:
- Bring a charged laptop with you; computers will not be provided
- Install the LaTex program - I recommend TexStudio as a nice interface
- Try to create a simple document to ensure the installation was successful
- Have a figure or two to insert into your document (these can be anything!)
Files from the workshop:
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Intro to Map Making
Heather Abernathy will be leading our next WGSA Workshop on an introduction to map making using ArcGIS. The workshop will be held on Friday (10/16) from 9:30-10:30 as part of the WGSA Procaffeination Hour. We will plan to meet in the GIS lab in building 4 instead of the Dean's Conference Room. A brief description of the workshop is below as well as a link to the files you will need (you can download them to a computer in the GIS lab if you are not using your own PC).
Do you find yourself wishing you had a better image of your study site that Google Earth can create? Or struggling to learn basic map-making in GIS? If so, this workshop is for you!
Broadly, my objective in this workshop is to expose novice GIS user to the wonderful world of map-making; namely we will be working with ArcGIS interfaces, Adding data, symbolizing data, making a simple map.
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| Photo obtained from USDA |
Specific Workshop Objectives:
- Become familiar with the ArcMap user interface
- Access and organize multiple sources of spatial data in a Data View
- Apply basic cartographic concepts to display spatial data effectively
- Create a map using an ArcMap Layout View
- Provide advice on pulling data from online sources and dealing with this data
Instructions to attendees:
- Please download the zip file attached as it has all the data we will be working with.
- Please read over the attached terms (Terms Associated with ArcGIS geospatial data) to become familiar with ArcGIS geospatial data terminology we will use during the workshop. I have also provided details regarding the complete ArcGIS Software Package as well as the four major applications of desktop ArcGIS.
- I have provided a list of useful sources for acquiring your own data to help inform on objective 5.
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