MWF 11:30 – 12:20 Dr. Tim Bartholomaus, tbartholomaus@uidaho.edu Learn: How glaciers flow, why snow is melting off earlier in the spring, how ice preserves a record of past global temperatures, how permafrost alters the landscape, and much more…
NIFA Funding Opportunity Page: https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/organic-agriculture-research-and-extension-initiative. Grants.gov Page: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=289645. This page includes a synopsis of the funding opportunity, a link to the full announcement (RFPA) and the application package.
Today Tsengel demonstrated how she made interitive processes in her research to examine the distriubuton of various datasets. She used for loops as well as some specific packages to do this. In addition, we worked as a group to examine ways to recreate a figure Tsengel created in excel in ggplot. For Tsengel’s presentation today […]
Alaska Airlines’ has committed one million airline miles per year to WSU faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students working in the competition’s chosen focus areas. The focus areas are: 1) The Itron food, energy and water nexus challenge 2) The Boeing aerospace challenge 3) The biofuels challenge 4) The McKinstry built environment challenge. The application […]
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) is launching the Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellowship, a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of early-career aquatic scientists in scientific publishing, including open-access publishing, peer review, and scientific writing. Please submit to Dr. Patricia A. Soranno, Editor-in-Chief, Limnology & Oceanography Letters, at soranno@anr.msu.edu by […]
Woodinville, Wash. – An interactive summit focusing on the future of the food system in the greater Seattle metropolitan area will be held on Friday, November 18, at the Brightwater Convention Center. Hosted by Washington State University (WSU) Metro Food Energy Water Seed Grant Research Team, the Urban Food-Energy-Water Summit provides an opportunity for the […]
Opportunity for undergraduate students, WSU deadline December 1, 2016. Students must be U.S. citizens and fall into one of these categories: You have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, economics, and other related fields. You are a Native American or Alaska […]
RAINWORKS CHALLENGE, M 2:10‐4:00 (1‐4 credits) Instructor: Hope Hui Rising, PhD, PLA Climate change has resulted in more sustained droughts and more intense storms. The impacts of climate change will affect young generations the most. Come find out how you can help climate‐proof our campus! If you attend the weekly brainstorming/coordination sessions from 2:10 to […]
The State of Washington Water Research Center (SWWRC) is soliciting research proposals for submission under Section 104(b) of the Water Resources Research Act. The objectives of this program are to sponsor research that fosters (a) exploration of new ideas to address water problems or expand understanding of water-related phenomena, (b) entry, education, and training of […]
Today Michael showed us some quick and simple ways to look at and measure spatial data using the spat-stat packaged. Included in the discussion was information on various statistics one can use to measure aspects such as nearest neighbor or clustering. spatialstats