Thursday, March 22, 2012
Final Project Discussion
Hey folks, it's finally time to start working on your final projects! I have posted the guidelines for your projects on the wiki. The gist is, you need to do an original analysis of freely available data or do a meta-analysis related to climate. I'm posting this entry so you can kick around ideas and ask questions in the comments. I hope you'll all keep an eye on this entry and help each other out.
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Mike J
ReplyDeleteI am planning on doing a meta analysis of somewhat current journal articles related to the mass extinction we are? or are not? currently in. I will build a list of mass extinction related terms and search many data bases for articles with those terms included. Once I have a list of articles I will search those articles for results/discussion/conclusion for a second set of terms such as current extinction rate, fossil extinction rate, and conclusions and discussion stating whether or not the authors believe we are in or on our way to a mass extinction.
It should be fun I have never done a meta analysis type of paper.
Sounds like a good topic, but remember you need to relate your paper to climate in some way.
DeleteEvery mass extinction is climate related, but thanks
Deletehttp://www.stat-help.com/Meta%20analysis%202009-06-01.pdf
ReplyDeleteFollow the link above to get to a great paper on how to do a meta-analysis. BUT, be careful meta-analysis are very difficult.
Here are a few new papers out that might be of interest to folks after listening to potential project ideas:
ReplyDeleteResponse of arboreal pollen abundance to late-Holocene drought events in the Upper Midwest, USA
Thomas A Minckley, Robert K Booth, and Stephen T Jackson
The Holocene 2012;22 531-539
http://hol.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/531
New correlation of stable carbon isotopes with changing late-Holocene fluvial environments in the Trinity River basin of Texas, USA
Stephen A Hall, Thomas W Boutton, Christopher R Lintz, and Timothy G Baugh
The Holocene 2012;22 541-549
http://hol.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/541
Enjoy!
My preliminary research on atmospheric and landscape nitrogen levels affect(s) on invasive floral species has not yielded any specific results to date. Any assistance on research that just happens to be at your finger tips, or ideas on how to modify my approach would be welcome!Becka - your e-mail and many others - dissapeared when my quota for the mailbox was exceeded. Could you please re-send it? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy project will be on climate change impact on European human feeding ecology in the Holocene.
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