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    Exploring EnvironmenATL Justice with Data Analytics and Visualization
    Basic data handling and data analysis skills are introduced to visualize and analyze ‘big data.’ Environmental justice is introduced to give students an understanding of tools and strategies to...

    Keywords: social justiceenvironmental justiceatlantaHBCUsCulturally responsive science teachingenvironmental racismenvironmental injustice

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    BIO 181G: The information age
    Course materials for BIO181G: The information age

    Keywords: Rbig datainterdisciplarycourse

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    50 Years of Data Science
    This paper reviews some ingredients of the current “Data Science moment”, including recent commentary about data science in the popular media, and about how/whether Data Science is really...

    Keywords: statisticsbig datadata sciencemachine learning

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    NEON data in undergraduate ecology courses: Data skills and learning opportunities
    Presentation made by Wendy Gram 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 AmericaNEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    HITS: A network to promote high-throughput (HT) approaches through inquiry-based case studies
    Poster on the HITS project presented at the 2018 Annual Fall Conference for the National Center for Case Study Teaching In Science.

    Keywords: case studiesbig dataHITSHigh-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s StudentsAnnual Fall Conference for the National Center for Case Study Teaching In ScienceBuffalo case studyHigh-throughput (HT) approaches

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    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecology: Introducing the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN)
    The Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN) was launched in the spring of 2019 following an NSF INCLUDES conference. This poster, summarizing the event, was presented at the 2019...

    Keywords: data scienceEquitydiversityinclusionNational Ecological Observatory NetworkEDSIN#edsin2019

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    Calling Bull in an Age of Big Data with R
    Use the calling bull course to introduce students to data, ethics, visualization, and R.

    Keywords: data scienceinformation literacydata literacyethicscallin bullcalling bull

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    Data is the New Science
    In this module, students will be introduced to some emerging biodiversity data resources. They will be asked to think critically about the strengths and utility of these data resources and apply...

    Keywords: data in the classroombiodiversity informaticsnatural history collection

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    Using Synthetic Biology to Teach Data Science
    Poster and supplemental materials on using synthetic biology to introduce students to meaningful data mining, analysis, and application to engineering novel biological constructs.
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    Climate Change, Phenology, and Community Interactions: Helping students explore the complexity of changing ecosystems
    Students explore findings from long-term studies of migrating and hibernating animals at high elevation. Students then use this understanding to explore the phenology of species and possible...

    Keywords: species interactionsclimate changefmnphenologyDIGenvironmental variationtrophic mismatch

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    HITS: A network to create inquiry-based case studies that make high-throughput approaches and discovery accessible
    HITS brings together interdisciplinary groups of HT researchers and instructors to produce authentic HT case studies that can be implemented in a variety of courses, allowing students to analyze...

    Keywords: case studieshigh-throughputHITS

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    Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record
    In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.

    Keywords: digital resourcesnatural history museumspaleobiology

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    Responses to Climate Change in California Chipmunks: Move, Adapt, or Die
    A series of three modules using data from natural history museum collections to examine responses to climate change in multiple chipmunk species. Elevation and morphological data, beginner skills...

    Keywords: statisticsmodelingmodulemorphologysummary statisticsmodulesclimate datamuseumsclimate changeundergraduate educationR programming languageprogrammingelevationnatural history museumsmammalssmall mammals community dynamicsmuseum collectionsVertebrate Morphologyopen educational resourceR programming environment

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    Data Nugget- City Parks and Texas A&M University-Kingsville Camera Trap Assignment
    The Data Nugget- City Parks module was used in a sophomore-junior level undergraduate wildlife management techniques course (with lab) in Fall 2017. Modifications were made to the original Data...

    Keywords: species richnessspecies diversityResource Typecamera trap

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    1-057-FiguringFluidFlow-ModelingScenario
    We propose three differential equations models for the height of a column of falling water as the water exits a small bore hole at the bottom of the cylinder and ask students to determine which...

    Keywords: dischargetankTorricelli's LawConservation of Energyfluid flowheightliquid

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    Literature Review: Inclusive Calculus for Life Sciences
    We believe that a biology-relevant calculus experience (biocalculus) can help overcome many of these issues in calculus. While challenging to build the capacity for teaching courses, students in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusidentityInclusive teachingcalculus epistemology

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    Integration of Bioinformatics into Life Science Curricula: Community Development, Dissemination, and Assessment of a NIBLSE Learning Resource
    Big data and computational tools have transformed the way we address biological questions. To prepare undergraduates for tomorrow’s challenges, life science curricula should integrate the...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSELife Science

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    Using CREATE in the Undergraduate Ecology Classroom
    Poster on using the CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the Hypothesis, Analyze and Interpret the Data, and Think of the Next Experiment) approach pioneered in molecular and cellular biology classes...

    Keywords: primary literatureCREATEjournal articlesSummer Workshop 2018

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    HITS: A network to create inquiry-based case studies that make high-throughput approaches and discovery accessible
    Poster on the work of the NSF-funded High-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s Students (HITS) Research Coordination Network. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: case studieshigh-throughputHITSHigh-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s Students2021 BIOME

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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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