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Team Research Questions & Goals

Research Questions

  • What environmental variables influence the range of the sloths?
  • How do the different species differ in their ranges?
  • How have sloth ranges changed over time and how will they continue to change in the future?

Goals

  • Read and write R scripts to analyze spatial data
  • Understand the basics of machine learning
  • Understand how ecological concepts relate to programming

Calendar

Date Topics Materials
Week 27
April 30
  • Update Maxent modeling script
  • Response curves
  • Past climate data ⏪
  • Projecting backwards in time
List of projections to make
Response curves - Markdown
Turn back time - climate data
Projecting backwards instructions
May 2
  • Finishing touches on code
  • Save plots for presentations
List of figures for presentations
Week 28
May 7
  • Louise is visiting!
  • Work on list of figures
  • Come up with a title
  • Work on poster and/or 15-minute presentation
  • List of figures for presentations
    Text and figures for poster - Google Doc
    SlothSquad poster
    SlothSquad 15 minute presentation
    May 9 Presentation Skills / Improv Workshop
    Week 29
    May 14
  • Work on poster!
  • Talk about posters
  • Sample posters folder
    Poster session video
    SlothSquad 5 minute presentation
    May 16
  • Work on poster
  • Install and test Zoom
  • Text and figures for poster - Google Doc
    SlothSquad poster
    Zoom download
    Week 30
    May 21 [Cecina in D.C. for conference]
  • Work on poster
  • May 23
  • Edit abstract
    SRMP poster ready for printing! [6:30 pm]
  • Week 31
    May 28 Practice presentation!
    May 30
  • Final edits to presentations
  • Week 32
    June 4 No internship session today
    June 6 SRMP Colloquium, Poster, and 5-minute Presentation
    June 9 15-minute presentation
    🎓 Brown Scholar Intern Graduation! 🎉

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