Below is the course flyer to this year’s Island Species-Led Action (ISLA) course to be held in Iligan City, Philippines in September. The course is organized by the International Training Center of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Kindly pass on to whoever might be interested. Thanks!
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Go to the original post at carla's blogFriday, April 30th, 2010
Essay – due Aug 1
Go to the original post at chuck's blogThursday, July 30th, 2009
Your next assignment is to write a short essay (800-1500 words) about one of the assigned readings. Please do a bit of research as well and find a couple of related papers as references. Properly cite your references, using the bibliographic style of the paper you are writing about.
Just post these on your own blog [...]
Announcement board
Go to the original post at chuck's blogWednesday, July 29th, 2009
We’re having a bit of trouble communicating with everyone over the past few days, so I am putting a white board next to the entrance of the office/lab building that you pass through on the way to the third floor lecture room. I realize that not everyone has easy access to the internet and this [...]
100% Organic Schedule
Go to the original post at chuck's blogTuesday, July 28th, 2009
I always believe things should be natural and fluid and adaptable. This means that I have never seen a schedule that I could not modify at the last minute, because things always change. So, here’s the latest concept for the schedule for that last week or so of our time together.
Jul 28
Revision of project proposals [...]
July 27 – announcements
Go to the original post at chuck's blogMonday, July 27th, 2009
No lecture tonight. We will postpone Matt’s talk about using phylogenies in ecology for a few days because of a conflict with one group’s night time activities (no, it is not just a BBQ). So, you are ‘free’ tonight.
HA! But, I do have an assignment. You shall revise your proposals, given the comments that you [...]
Optional Lecture: “R” (Statistics for Adults)
Go to the original post at Laoban's blogFriday, July 24th, 2009
When: Sunday, July 26, 10:00 am
Where: (TBA)
What: An introduction to R – a powerful open-source statistics package.
Who: Matt Helmus PhD
I will give an OPTIONAL R tutorial that should last 30min to 1 hour. You should bring your laptop computer or work with someone who has one.
I will show how to import/export data, plot and calculate [...]
Proposal instructions
Go to the original post at chuck's blogWednesday, July 22nd, 2009
We’re actually having a bit of problem with the posting page. Please finish your proposals and we will work out how to post them.
Proposal format
Each proposal should have the following items in this order.
Title
Names of team members
Introduction, including a brief discussion of relevant literature
Questions to be answered or Hypotheses to be tested
Methods (should include all [...]
Topics in Ecological Evolution
Go to the original post at chuck's blogTuesday, July 14th, 2009
Hi everyone, I really enjoyed the discussions we had tonight. Glad to see some of you so interested in these topics. As you can see from the Live! website, we’ve got a new way to continue these discussions. I am sorry that Surya had to drag me away tonight but please continue to post your [...]
Download Readings and Updated Schedule
Go to the original post at Laoban's blogMonday, July 13th, 2009
You can download the required readings and latest schedule here: http://afec-x.ecologicalevolution.org/live/readings
Also, the Powerpoint lectures that professors have chosen to share can be found here: http://afec-x.ecologicalevolution.org/live/lectures/ in PDF format.
Welcome to AFEC-X 2009 Live!
Go to the original post at chuck's blogSunday, July 5th, 2009
I am sure that everyone is excited about the course and many of you will soon be on your way to Xishuangbanna. We’ve been very busy (okay, mainly Kari) getting all of the details worked out and to have everything ready for your arrival. I am confident that the course will be a rich and [...]