This past fall I had the opportunity to join the Rutgers University Department of Anthropology Lab for MicroArchaeology (ALMA) as visiting scientist. I worked directly with ALMA PI, Dr. Dan Cabanes, one of the leading world experts in phytolith analysis and FTIR, to learn both of these key methods as well as a range of other (micro)archaeological science methods.
[more]Hi EEES Crew! I just got back from an amazing two-week summer course on animal acoustic communication hosted by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). This course is offered every other year to PhD students from across the globe. For 10 years now, bioacoustics experts from SDU and elsewhere have come together to provide students with training in both marine and terrestrial animal acoustics research. Before attending, I had heard that the course was known for being good, and I was not disappointed.
[more]Did you know New Hampshire has no native earthworms? After glaciers receded from this part of the country at the beginning of the Holocene, the land was scoured and effectively soil-free. This habitat was unwelcoming to soil-dwelling earthworms, which cannot migrate far without human intervention.
[more]The University of Washington hosts short courses on a range of subjects each year through its Summer Institutes program. The course I attended, "Mixed Models for Quantitative Genetics," is part of the Summer Institute for Statistics and Genetics. The course was two and a half days long and covered a staggering amount of material in that time. The course was taught by Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona), one of the authors of a classic textbook on quantitative genetics, and Guilherme Rosa (University of Wisconsin), who specializes in the biostatistics behind plant and animal breeding.
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