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    REMNet Tutorial, Excel Part 3: Organizing Your Microbiome Data 5.3.19
    Video on organizing microbiome using Excel from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: ExcelVideoMicrobiology Educationmicrobiomesresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 5: Normalizing Microbiome Data in R 5.2.19
    Video on normalizing microbiome data from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: geneticsstatisticsdata analysisgraphingRStudioVideoexperimental designR programming languagemicrobiomesstudent researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsresearch in the classroomtidyverseWorking with datasetsREMNet

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 1: Getting Started in R with Microbiome Data 5.3.19
    Video on the basics of R software from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: VideoMicrobiology EducationR programming languagemicrobiomesresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    REMNet Tutorial, Excel Part 6: Making Microbiome Column Charts 5.3.19
    Video on creating column charts in Excel from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: ExcelVideoMicrobiology Educationmicrobiomesresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    REMNet Tutorial, Excel Part 4: Focusing on Taxonomy 4.26.19
    Video on analyzing microbiome data in Excel from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: The Analysis of Biological DataExcelVideoMicrobiology Educationteaching with technologymicrobiomesSwirlresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    REMNet: Online Resources 5.3.19
    Video on online resources for studying microbiomes from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: VideoMicrobiology EducationmicrobiomesMicrobiome researchresearch in the classroomREMNet

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 3: Creating Alpha Diversity Plots in R 5.2.19
    Video on creating alpha diversity plots in R from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: VideoMicrobiology EducationR programming languagemicrobiomesCoastal wetlandsmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marshresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    Team microBIOME Fall 2020 - DIY microbiome analysis
    This is our final team report for this year's BIOME Institute 2020. Learn about what we got up to and what we're planning for Spring 2021. If you want more information on REMNet go...

    Keywords: microbiomeDNA SubwayDIYREMNet microbiomesNephele

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    Communicating with Data: Infographic with Digital Data
    Working collaboratively in teams of 2-4 researchers, students engage in targeted projects to address critical information and research needs using digital biodiversity data.

    Keywords: databasesdata in the classroomundergraduate researchdigital collectionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)biodiversity collections

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    Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
    Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut microbiomes...

    Keywords: Vision and Changeecologyintroductory biologyImmunologymicrobiologydietanimal behaviormicrobiomecore conceptscoyotesBraingut-brain axisImmunoReachcytokinedysbiosis

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    Case Study: Pollination of the Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) by the Solitary Bee (Andrena nigroaenea)
    The research uses natural history collection data to explore a potential phenological shift between an orchid that employs sexual deception and a solitary bee.

    Keywords: pollination biologyClimate change and phenologydigitized natural history collectionsPseudocopulation

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    Introductory Data Science Pipeline Activity – Yellow Fever and Global Precipitation
    Students follow the steps of a tiny data science project from start to finish. They are given a research question "Are the number of cases of yellow fever associated with global average...

    Keywords: graphinghypothesis testingdata scienceData-based inquiry in the classroomglobal healthdata science educationyellow fever

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    Basic Statistics
    The students will practice identifying the appropriate basic statistical tests when given a scenario and learn how to run and interpret those statistical tests in R.
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    Communicating with Data: Digital Data Resources
    Students access, clean, configure, and standardize a dataset and create a relevant and scientifically valid data visualization to communicate science.

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata visualizationdigital resourcesbiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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    Biobyte 3 - Lab reports as reproducible research
    This short activity introduces a discussion of reproducibility in scientific research and ways that we might address these ideas with undergraduates. There is an opportunity to use a prototype...

    Keywords: data sciencedsube

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    Number Sense
    In this activity, students demonstrate their own innate number sense by playing an online game that asks them to estimate quantities that are flashed on screen for only milliseconds. Research...

    Keywords: number sensemath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Turning ecological research into engaging online modules for undergraduates through Gala/OCELOTS
    Learn how to create and implement online modules in tropical ecology for undergraduates. In an NSF-funded network, researchers and specialists in 4DEE, pedagogy, interactive data tools, and media...

    Keywords: tropical biologyOCELOTSLDC2023

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    Developing a community resource to find and share summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunities
    Instructors can use this module to introduce students to searching for and identifying summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) online, with a focus on National Science Foundation (NSF)...

    Keywords: Resources @ NSF - NCCSTSecology labField researchREUresearch experience for undergraduatesfield ecology

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    Genome Sequence Data in R using Biostrings (Swirl Lesson)
    By the end of this lesson, students should be able to load FASTA files into R as DNAStringSets and use width() and alphabetFrequency(), combined with other functions like sum() and mean(), to...

    Keywords: R programming languagecourse-based undergraduate research experienceBioinformatics and GenomicsCURECUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)STEM CUREsComparative genomicsBioconductor

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    Rescuing Data: Preserving Data for the Future
    Meet Diane Srivastava, director of the Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution, and learn how they sythesize and save biodiversity data.

    Keywords: metadatadigital datadata skillsBiodiversity Science

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