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    Salamander Mark-Recapture using SPARCnet plots with the Schnabel Method
    A salamander mark-recapture module where students field collect a third survey occasion to estimate population size

    Keywords: Field researchsalamanderCapture mark-recaptureAudience level - Advanced UG

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    Graphing Techniques for Introductory Microbiology
    This module will introduce the introductory microbiology students to graphing skills to visualize and interpret the data to investigate the effect of environmental factor (temperature) on bacterial...

    Keywords: data analysisgraphinggraph interpretationdata interpretationmicrobiologySTEM educationtemperaturegroup workBEDENet FMNbacterial growth

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    Module M.1 R basics for data exploration and management
    Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology students on data management and statistical analysis...

    Keywords: R programming languageprimatespopulation ecology

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    Exploring USGS streamflow data with dataRetrieval and Swirl
    This Swirl lesson walks through how to retrieve, view, and visually analyze streamflow and water quality data from the National Water Information System (US Geological Survey).

    Keywords: tool:swirl

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    2013-Alicia_Caldwell-Students Rise to the Challenge of Modeling Yeast Growth Despite Sour Hiccups from Imperfect Data
    This paper describes a lab in which students in an Applied Mathematics in Biology course observe the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a yeast strain, in differing sugar concentrations for use in...

    Keywords: Saccharomyces cerevisiaelogisticyeastdeathgrowthsugaralcohol

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    1-102-CancerTumor-ModelingScenario
    This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and optimize treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are studied, including ...

    Keywords: optimizationlogisticpredictiondata fittingpower lawGompertzcancer growtheponentialBertalanaffy

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    1-170-CensusModeling-ModelingScenario
    Students who have studied models for population are likely to be familiar with the exponential and the logistic population models. The goal here is to explore the role of modeling assumptions in...

    Keywords: logistic growthexponentialpopulationU.S. Census DataassumptionGoogle SheetsUnites StatesGuatemala

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    3-015-StyrofoamBallFall-ModelingScenario
    We are given data on a falling Styrofoam ball and we seek to model this motion.

    Keywords: footballresistancegravityfalling bodysum of square errorsNewton's Second Law of Motionsum of forcesstyrofoam

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    5-012-LipoproteinModeling-ModelingScenario
    Data from a study on the amounts of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), form of cholesterol, in blood plasma is presented. Students build, validate, and use a compartment model of the kinetic...

    Keywords: wildlifelow-density-lipoproteintracercompartment modelcholesterolblood plasmabody tissue

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    1-002-Tossing-ModelingScenario
    We offer students simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches, to include exponential decay fit, difference equation, and...

    Keywords: Modeling and simulationexponentialdecaydice

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    1-003-CollegeSavings-ModelingScenario
    We present a modeling opportunity for students in which they have to plan and model for saving for a child's complete college education.

    Keywords: collegesavingsinterest ratecollege costsensitiviyty

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    1-070-FisheryHarvest-ModelingScenario
    Students model with logistic growth, harvesting, and diffusion in analyzing ocean fisheries of the Atlantic cod. We help students build models, ever more complex, to capture physical realities. At...

    Keywords: logisticDiffusionmanagementharvestfishery

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    6-018-ExploringSIRModel-ModelingScenario
    Students will transform, solve, and interpret Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) models using systems of differential equation models. The project is progressively divided into three parts to...

    Keywords: population dynamicssensitivitydiseaseSIR modelsepidemicrumors

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    4-039-FallingDarts-ModelingScenario
    we develop, solve, and analyze a second order differential equation model for free fall incorporating air resistance. Students solve the model using two methods -- reduction of order and...

    Keywords: optimizationresistanceterminal velocitymuzzle velocitydrag coefficientfree fallair drag

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    10-100-InsectOutbreaks-ModelingScenario
    We use a system of difference equations that incorporates a temperature-dependent MPB population growth rate to model the outbreak and recovery cycle in mountain pine beetle-infested forests.

    Keywords: ecologyclimate changeinsectinsect outbreaksinsect outbreaksolitary wave

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    Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation
    In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthlinear modelsqbccinterpolationConcepts in Statistics and Precalculus Understanding exponential rates and linear slopesExtrapolation

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    BEDE Network Data Science Skills Curriculum Map
    The Biological and Environmental Data Education (BEDE) Network has produced this data science skills curriculum map as a flexible tool to help instructors highlight data science skills that they...

    Keywords: quantitative skillsscientific literacyCurriculum developmentdata science skills trainingdata literacy skills

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    Analysis of Microbiomes Using Free Web-Based Tools in Online and In-Person Undergraduate Science Courses
    Our understanding of microbiomes, or the collection of microorganisms and their genes in a given environment, has been revolutionized by technological and computational advances. However, many...

    Keywords: microbiomeDNA SubwayCyVerseCourse based undergraduate researchQIIME2ranacapa

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    1-092-DashItAll-ModelingSenario
    This project uses very basic physics, Newton's Second Law of Motion, to model the motion of a sprinter running down a track. We derive the classic Hill-Keller model for a sprinter exerting...

    Keywords: datarunningsprintHill-Kellerworld recordOlympics

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    2017-Justin_Krueger-Parameter Estimation Methods for Ordinary Differential Equation Models with Applications to Microbiology
    We demonstrate the feasibility of principal differential analysis using simulation studies and then apply the method to intestinal and vaginal microbiota data.

    Keywords: microbiologyLotka Volterrramicrobiota

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