Bird vs. Fish

A Laptop Overhaul

Long story short, my computer was having some serious issues that led me to back up all my files, update my BIOS and get rid of my Ubuntu partition to reinstall Windows. It’s not so bad, though, in that it gives me a really fresh start to re-envision my hard drive partitioning. The only thing […]

Lab Notebook: Trials & Errors

So I think in trying out the R package “inlabru,” and then installing all sorts of experimental updates/upgrades to try to debug it, I broke the dependencies (or something) for my R-INLA install on the HPC system. Now I can’t run R-INLA models without getting some sort of error. I’m waiting to see if we […]

Specs

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Camarillo Device (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03) […]

Lab Notebook: Today’s HPC Adventure

made sure to read in file with as.is=TRUE scaled time = time/max(time) scaled VCF

Jutta Arctic

This is the best week of the year to see one!

June Rare Birds – St. Louis Co., MN

pomarine jaeger Scott’s oriole

Best Computing Practices: Climate

This is Part 1 of “Best Computing Practices for Ecologists,” laid out with ecology themes & analogies! I wanted to start with what “climate zone” you live in, and where you might be happiest as an organism. In this analogy, I’m talking about your operating system. This is where you start interfacing with a computer: no […]

Best Computing Practices: Landscape

This is Part 2 of the “Best Computing Practices for Ecology” series. I’ve just been watching the R revolution sweep ecology (one I’m very much a part of, too) and want to shed light on some other aspects of the “computing ecosystem” in ecological terms…insofar as I can make the wordplay work! So, here is […]

Butterfly Species that Migrate Here

Paul asked me this, and I thought it was a nice excuse to hash out butterfly life history strategies. The answer, though, is not simple, so I’m going to define it in the context of our locality. We actually have a good reference point to split migration vs. hibernation, since it’s easier to sort out […]

Butterflies: Last Week of May

These butterflies peak this week in Wisconsin! A good reason to go looking for butterflies on this holiday weekend. Frigga fritillary Freija fritillary red-disked alpine dusted skipper