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    Quantitative biology: how educators that "buy-in" demonstrate greater productivity in teaching scholarship
    Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh undergraduate research symposium on the impact of buy-in on productivity in faculty mentoring networks.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networks

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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: A model for professional development in undergraduate quantitative biology education
    Presentation given at ESA 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksEcological Society of Americaquantitative biology education

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    Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Faculty Mentoring Networks: A Model for Promoting Faculty Teaching Scholarship
    Presentation given as part of NABT Symposium discussing faculty mentoring networks and faculty teaching scholarship.

    Keywords: NABTFaculty Mentoring Network

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    QUBES – A virtual synthesis center catalyzing change in undergraduate quantitative biology education
    Presentation about QUBES given at HHMI Constellation Meeting: Advancing science students mastery of quantitative skills.

    Keywords: quantitative biology education

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    Modification to What do Trees Know about the Rain
    Use of the tree ring data vs. precipitation to discuss how trees respond to drought

    Keywords: discussionslecture slidesgraphsgroup-ldcfmn

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    How Many Salamanders are in the forest? Testing capture-recapture
    Collecting data on how populations respond to environmental change requires accurate estimates of population sizes. This activity explores one method for estimating population sizes across three...

    Keywords: salamanderCapture mark-recaptureAudience level - Introductory UG - majorsAudience level - Introductory UG - non-majors

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    Developing Open Source Plugins for the Educational Gateway QUBEShub: Expanding Community Reach and Building a Robust Open Education Resource Ecosystem
    We present work on development of (1) a component to record, track and display the multitude of partners and professional organizations involved in the QUBES mission, and (2) a component to bring...

    Keywords: OERscience gatewaysgateways17

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    Designing undergraduate biology curricula to teach skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research
    Poster presented at Ecological Society of America Annual Conference 2017.

    Keywords: data literacy

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    Undergraduate data science: Biological connections and assessing impacts
    Presentation made by Lou Gross et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
    Presentation made by Elizabeth Ellwood et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Exploring global environmental change issues: Using an online spatial data sharing platform in the classroom
    Presentation made by Kai Foster as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America annual...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Enabling authentic ecological inquiries using research data and imageries in large classrooms
    Presentation made by Ben Wu et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America annual...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Using primary literature to teach data literacy
    Presentation by Bridget Conneely made as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of American...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Analyzing interesting images motivates mathematics and statistics learning
    Presentation by Jeremy Wojdak made as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America annual...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward...

    Keywords: QUBES

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    Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
    Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Exploring HIV Evolution
    In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...

    Keywords: EvolutionbioinformaticssequencingUndergraduateNIBLSEincubatorsHIVAudience LevelC1. Role of bioinformaticsC4. Bioinformatics toolsRecommended by NIBLSE

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    EREN PFPP Species Composition Curriculum Module with Data
    In this lab, students will learn foundational concepts of forest community dynamics and apply quantitative skills to data analysis and interpretation activities. Students will use tree plot data...

    Keywords: forest ecologyecologydata analysisdata in the classroomCommunity Ecologyscience educationcourse-based undergraduate research experiencecurriculum materialsPlant EcologyPlant community assemblyCollaborative researcheren

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    A Direct Experience Study of Density-Dependent Growth
    An experiential approach to density-dependent growth using a checkerboard, 6-sided die, and two types of markers.

    Keywords: logistic growthdensity dependenceexperiential

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