Organized Oral Session: Tuesday, Aug 8th, 8am – 11:30am, Portland Ballroom 255, Convention Center
Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom:
Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
Ecological Society of America meeting, Portland, OR
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8:00 AM – Undergraduate data science: Biological connections and assessing impacts
Louis J. Gross, University of Tennessee; Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee; Robin Taylor, University of Tennessee; Pamela Bishop, University of Tennessee; Kelly Sturner, University of Tennessee
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8:20 AM – NEON data in undergraduate ecology courses: Data skills and learning opportunities
Wendy Gram, Battelle – NEON; Megan A. Jones, Battelle – NEON
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8:40 AM – Exploring global environmental change issues: Using an online spatial data sharing platform in the classroom
Kai Foster, The Conservation Biology Institute
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9:00 AM – Using authentic scientific data to improve quantitative reasoning in ecology and evolutionary biology
Louise Mead, Michigan State University; Elizabeth H. Schultheis, Michigan State University; Melissa K. Kjelvik, Michigan State University; Molly Stuhlsatz, BSCS; Alexa Warwick, Michigan State University
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9:20 AM – Student-led evaluation of air quality issues using the US EPA AirData website
Katherine Barry, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences; Mary A. Williams, University of Minnesota; Deena Wassenberg, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences
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9:40 AM – Break
9:50 AM – Using primary literature to teach data literacy
Bridget Conneely, HHMI BioInteractive
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10:10 AM – Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Florida State University; Anna K. Monfils, Central Michigan University; Debra Linton, Central Michigan University; Molly Phillips, iDigBio
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10:30 AM – Analyzing interesting images motivates mathematics and statistics learning
Jeremy M. Wojdak, Radford University
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10:50 AM – Enabling authentic ecological inquiries using research data and imageries in large classrooms
X. Ben Wu, Texas A&M University; Stephanie Knight, Pennsylvania State University; Xavier Jaime, Texas A&M University; Jane F. Schielack, Texas A&M University
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11:10 AM – Asking and answering questions: Using a flexible querying tool to support data exploration in a variety of courses
Tanya Dewey, Colorado State University
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