Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field data, to better understand how lichens respond to changes

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Amphibian Diversity: Species Richness and Precipitation

This activity will explore how natural history specimen data can be used to investigate the relationship between precipitation levels in a region and species diversity of amphibians.

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Species Range Over Space and Time

used this Spring 2020

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Ferns are Everywhere

Using spatial fern population data in hypothesis testing

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Testing hypotheses about the role of wildfire in structuring avian communities

This module assesses the role of wildfire in the eastern US and its impact on bird communities using NEON bird survey data from pre- and post- a major wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) in November 2016.

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Cleaning Biodiversity Data: Excel

Access and clean an open source polar bear dataset using Excel.

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Remote sensing data processing – NEON airborne data

Concepts of remote sensing and data logistics, and NEON remote sensing data are introduced. Students learn how to apply spatial data processing and visualization skills using R coding program to process NEON airborne data to address scientific questions.

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Why does Blood Flow Change? Investigating the Math of Blood Flow Dynamics

This collection of activities explores the relationship between blood flow, pressure, and the factors of resistance through graphs and modeling direct and inverse variation.

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A New Phenology-focused CURE using Herbarium Specimen Data

phenology on-line

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Cleaning Biodiversity Data: A Botanical Example Using Excel or RStudio

Access and clean an open source herbarium dataset using Excel or RStudio.

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Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies

Jess Coyle using CODAP from 4DEE Extravaganza

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