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1. Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture

   11 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Hastings

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly each year and agriculture is a large contributor. In order to minimize biodiversity loss, we must study how local and landscape management in agriculture impact...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3058/?v=1

2. Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)

   09 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jonathan Thomas Stetler

   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

   Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE. This module was adapted for students using R and RStudio.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3036/?v=1

3. Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE): Instructor Implementation

   06 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emilie Wiesner

   Ithaca College

   This details an implementation of the climate change module, where students explore how climate is using data. Produced by Project EDDIE.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2987/?v=1

4. Home sweet home for warblers: Graphing and Analysis using R

   14 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristen Kaczynski

   Earth & Environmental Sciences, California State University Chico

   This resource expands on the Data Nugget "Trees and bushes, Home Sweet Home for Warblers". The analyses and graphing is done in R and there are questions that ask about the management implications.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2928/?v=1

5. Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Elizabeth Farrell

   SUNY Nassau Community College

   Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2919/?v=1

6. Prairie Eco Services (Project EDDIE)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kelly Knight

   Houston Community College

   As densely populated urban areas continue to expand, human activity is removing much-needed greenspaces from our communities; in turn, we are also removing critical buffers that are needed to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2918/?v=1

7. Hypoxia in Coastal Marine Ecosystems (Project Eddie)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Annette Brickley¹, Kathy Browne², Gabi Smalley²

   1. NES-LTER Education & Outreach Coordinator 2. Rider University

   Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2917/?v=1

8. Uninhibited Growth of Cells

   10 Mar 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Boyce

   South Puget Sound CC

   In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2895/?v=1

9. Putting specimens on the map: An introduction to georeferencing

   04 Mar 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Elissa Sorojsrisom¹, Matthew Johnson²

   1. Columbia University 2. Texas Tech University

   Use GEOLocate to assign geographic coordinates to natural history collections specimens

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2890/?v=1

10. Applying phylogenetic tree building in MEGA X to forensic applications for identifying unknown specimens

    10 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nicholas Lorusso¹, Maria Shumskaya², Denise Gemmellaro²

    1. University of North Texas at Dallas 2. Kean University

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2567/?v=2

11. Interpreting the Pseudocot Phylogeny

    07 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristy L Daniel

    Texas State University

    Students use physical characteristics, genetics, and a fossil record of hypothetical flowering plants to develop fundamental phylogenetic tree-building skills.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2867/?v=1

12. Introduction to nucleotide sequence analysis and protein modeling in MEGA and PyMol using coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

    03 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Maria Shumskaya¹, Christopher Zambell¹, Nicholas Lorusso²

    1. Kean University 2. University of North Texas at Dallas

    Introduction into computational approaches in phylogeny and protein modeling based on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (caused COVID-19 pandemic). Two self-guided tutorials for standard lab classes of 2.5...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1796/?v=3

13. Tree Biomass and Phenology

    03 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Noam Tomoya Altman-Kurosaki¹, Emily Rose Brown², Sarah Roney¹, Emily Weigel¹

    1. Georgia Institute of Technology 2. Florida Gulf Coast University

    This lesson centers around understanding the connection of tree biomass and phenology with climate change. It uses both swirl and LearnR lessons in the R programming language to help students make...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2859/?v=1

14. Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data

    17 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Adam Rumpf

    Florida Polytechnic University

    In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2831/?v=1

15. BIOME 2021 Scientist Spotlight/Data Nugget Working Group Video Recap

    06 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Karen Klyczek¹, Laurel Lorenz², Pat Marsteller³, Laura Elizabeth Ong⁴, Elizabeth Pollock⁵, Amber Qureshi⁶, Katie Weglarz⁷, Suann Yang⁸

    1. University of Wisconsin-River Falls 2. Princeton 3. Emory University 4. King University 5. Stockton University 6. Unversity of Wisconsin Madison- Wisconsin Institute of Discovery 7. Westfield State University 8. Presbyterian College

    This two-minute overview video describes the work of the 2021 fall working group for Scientist Spotlight/Data Nugget course resources. Group members began developing new projects for a variety of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2815/?v=1

16. Sharing Stories: Developing OER around Podcasts

    03 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By J. Phil Gibson¹, Carlos Christopher Goller², Stefanie Kring³, Darlene Panvini⁴, Justin Pruneski⁵, Ellen Wisner⁶

    1. University of Oklahoma 2. North Carolina State University 3. Clarkson University 4. Belmont University 5. Heidelberg University 6. University of North Carolina Charlotte

    Our team met in the fall of 2021 to discuss and develop resources around podcasts. We created lists of podcast episodes for several courses, learned about listening guides, shared assignment...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2797/?v=1

17. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT - Toxicology MSDT

    29 Nov 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Pia van Benthem

    University of California Davis

    On this website you can find 6 learning modules on various topics in toxicology. These are self-paced student-centered online learning modules. You will receive a certificate of completion at the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2800/?v=1

18. Spatial Analysis with QGIS

    13 Oct 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ryan Kerney¹, Timothy Whitfeld²

    1. Gettysburg College 2. Bell Museum, University of Minnesota

    Map specimen data points using QGIS, connect them to form a polygon using the Concave Hull plugin, and calculate the range of a species to examine how it changes over time.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2761/?v=1

19. Mapping Specimen Occurrence Data in QGIS

    24 Sep 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Cecily Bronson

    Use digitized natural history collection occurrence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to map the distribution of the beaver in the state of Oregon from 1800-2020 using QGIS

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2351/?v=1

20. Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel

    02 Sep 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Marina McLeod¹, Jennifer Olson¹, Wendy Houston¹

    Everett Community College

    In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2747/?v=1