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    Case Study — World records as measures of senescence or randomness
    This is a project meant to accompany the Case Study that Carl Bergstrom, which uses R to explore whether declining track and field world record performance could be an artifact of sample size (less...

    Keywords: RRStudioprogrammingsampling distributionProbability & Statisticsrandomnesscontinuous probability distribution

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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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    World Population Density
    World population density 1950-2050

    Keywords: dataResources @ BioQUEST - Numbers Count

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    Module 4: What Kind of Data Goes in a Field Notebook?
    The goal of this activity is to introduce students to biological field notebooks and how they are used by scientists during field work. Specifically, students will learn what a botanist collecting...

    Keywords: Herbarium digitizationField notebookTimothy Plowman

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    Population Ecology of the Northern Spotted Owl
    The mathematical modeling of populations utilizing field-collected demographic data is an important component of lab curricula in a variety of undergraduate biology lab courses. During the global...

    Keywords: demographyCommunity Ecologypopulation ecologyconservation biologylife tables

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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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    Applying phylogenetic tree building in MEGA X to forensic applications for identifying unknown specimens
    This exercise is designed to guide a learner through the construction of phylogenetic trees as a means of addressing research questions in forensic science such as the identification of previously...

    Keywords: taxonomyBioinformatics and GenomicsDNA Barcodinginvertebrate phylogeneticsforensic entomology

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    A Remote Introductory Biology Lab Using Backyard Birdwatching to Teach Data Analysis and Communication
    Asking questions, designing experiments, collecting data and interpreting those data, and communicating the results are some of the most important concepts an undergraduate biology lab can teach...

    Keywords: ecologydata analysisdata collection

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    Walkabout: An Easy to Use, Experiential Learning Activity for Applying Abstract Concepts to the Real-World
    Students can have difficulty recognizing examples of course concepts in the real-world. They particularly struggle with phenomena that are ambiguously defined, have mimics, or are hard to...

    Keywords: data gatheringgreen technologyobservations

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.

    Keywords: climate dataclimate changevolcanoes and climateclimate trends

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE. This module was adapted for students using R and RStudio.
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    When did I lose my legs? A limbless lizard tale
    Using oVERT project models students examine examples of extant traditional lizards, snakes and limbless lizards and create phylogenies based on trait and genetic data.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsevolutionary biologyHerpetologynatural history collections3D models#NGSSdigitized natural history collectionsoVertConvergent Evolution

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Electrical Activity of Neurons
    This tutorial describes how neurons generate action potentials, and how scientists measure neuronal activity and record the firing of individual neurons.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveAnatomy & PhysiologyNervous systemCell communication

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    1-124-WorldPopulation-ModelingScenario
    We build models of world population using data to estimate growth rate.

    Keywords: population dynamicshumangrowth ratevarying growth rate

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    Linking Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis to Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation
    Traditional Ecological Knowledge is based on deep understanding of systems from observations made over hundreds to thousands of years. This resource connects Traditional Ecological Knowledge to...

    Keywords: climate changeenvironmental justiceintermediate disturbance hypothesisTraditional ecological knowledge

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    Data Science as a Superpower
    Presentation on data science education given at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Webinar: Getting Started with QUBES Educational Library Resources - YouTube
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "Getting Started with QUBES Educational Library Resources". This webinar is intended to help individuals find and use STEM education resources available on the...

    Keywords: webinar

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