Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
For me, and I imagine a lot of people, the hardest parts of doing science are (1) coming up with good (or any) ideas, and (2) writing. Because these tasks are so challenging--and because I have an unhealthy obsession with how-to guides and formulaic advice--I have been gathering materials for ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Funding agencies occasionally ask for short abstracts of proposed or completed research to help describe the research to policy makers and the public since, after all, our tax dollars are supporting the research. I wrote one of these descriptions this morning and thought I would post it here too. The ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I'm gearing up to do a snow survey at my field site, the Soddie Watershed (shown above). The Soddie Watershed is a 0.89 km2 alpine-subalpine catchment on the south side of Niwot Ridge. Niwot Ridge is a large swath of alpine tundra adjacent to the continental divide in the Front ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
While perhaps not a profound question, "How big should I make my soil cores?" is an important question that I think needs some attention.
From a conceptual standpoint, we know that any study of the environment is scale-dependent, meaning that the scale you choose for your investigation can affect the results ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
It sounds crazy, but that's pretty much what happened. I woke up too early (about 6) and as I lay in bed, my mind drifted to a Bayesian statistics example that I had read on Friday afternoon. I had read all of the parts of it and understood the sentences ...
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