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Investigating human impacts on local Hawaiian stream ecology

Students learn about stream ecology on the island of Hawaii using data available through USGS and University of Hawaii websites and develop an understanding for potential stream changes due to...

Keywords: climateStream ecologyHawaii CountyTopographyMap ReadingRainfall

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Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

Keywords: data in the classroomdata interpretationprecipitationstream dischargePalmer Drought Severity IndexlidarEcological Disturbancedisturbance ecologyHigh School

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NEON Data in the Classroom: Implementing and Adapting an Open Education NEON Resource “Quantifying the Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events-The 2013 Colorado Floods” for the Southern California Classroom.

Natural disasters and subsequent ecological disturbance events illustrate the complexity of problems in ecology and environmental science, and can be used as effective teaching tools. Unpacking the...

Keywords: data in the classroomdata interpretationTemperature ChangeprecipitationPalmer Drought Severity IndexEcological Disturbancedisturbance ecology

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Flow regime and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) wadeable stream sites

This resource uses discharge data from three of NEON's wadeable stream sites to illustrate how streams can differ in their flow regimes using graphical analysis of annual hydrographs.

Keywords: NEONstreamsstreamflow

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Introduction to Plant Phenology with Museum Specimens of Desert Prickly Pear (Opuntia phaeacantha)

Students engage in hands-on exploration of phenology by working with digitized herbarium specimens, particularly focusing on prickly pear specimens from the UTEP herbarium. They learn to identify...

Keywords: botanyclimate changephenologyherbariumcactus

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Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

Keywords: ecologyundergraduate education

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Working with Datasets in R swirl

The goal of this lesson is to learn how to import datasets into R, understand variable types, make adjustments to variables, perform basic calculations, and begin data visualization. The exercise...

Keywords: graphingRStudioclimate change datatidyverseWorking with datasets

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Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation (Abstract) | TIEE

An introduction to linear models using plant and animal richness-environment relationships in ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEintroductory biologyspecies richnessaquatic ecologyfmnDIGenvironmental variationhabitat permanencyupper level wetland ecology

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Data Management Adaptation: Correlating Forest Community Dynamics to Climate

Students use vegetation structure data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by correlating...

Keywords: forest ecologydata managementspreadsheetsCommunity DynamicsNEONDIGNational Ecological Observatory Networkbiomass

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Investigating human impacts on local Hawaiian stream ecology

Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

NEON Data in the Classroom: Implementing and Adapting an Open Education NEON Resource “Quantifying the Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events-The 2013 Colorado Floods” for the Southern California Classroom.

Flow regime and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) wadeable stream sites

Introduction to Plant Phenology with Museum Specimens of Desert Prickly Pear (Opuntia phaeacantha)

Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

Working with Datasets in R swirl

Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation (Abstract) | TIEE

Data Management Adaptation: Correlating Forest Community Dynamics to Climate

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