This weekend, my mom and boyfriend were visiting for my birthday (and for the latter, it’s  our 2-year dating anniversary tomorrow). We arrived at the bog around 3:30 PM to a few black-capped chickadees and a northern shrike, and made our way to McDavitt Rd. around 4 PM . We cruised the road slowly, talked […]

As mentioned in my prior post, the hurdles are steeper than I thought, but maybe I’ll at least keep chipping away at this one. One of my concerns is:  I have to do a line-by-line calculation for each line in a giant file, and I’m wondering if R will be too slow for this. Also, […]

I’m currently learning my way around Stella, to work with the WETLANDSCAPE models. I am working on comparing 10-day time step outputs to daily outputs, to see if the results are comparable. As you know, though, I hate closed source software, so working with something like this is…challenging. I was excited (and still sort of […]

I’m in the 1st half of the 1st day of my 30’s, so now it’s time to look forward. The last decade was about school, and earning my way to a Ph.D. This decade will be about career (though certainly not solely). I’m happy for where I am right now, and grateful for the foundation […]

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I thought I’d commemorate the end of my 20’s today. I started this decade as an undergraduate in physics, but I would soon switch to biology. The next year, when I was 21, I went onto my first field season in South Carolina for the project that would become my […]

There are old, curious records of willow ptarmigan in northern WI and MN, and I’ve always wondered what the story was there. I found a paper (reference at the bottom of the post) describing the biome changes that accompanied the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. “From the west to the east, a new […]

I look forward to looking for American three-toed woodpeckers this season!

A bag of birdseed spilled on my deck and birds found it! Unfortunately this warranted a complaint to my landlord about my attracting birds to my porch from the old lady below me. She worries about them soiling her deck, though I think the impact was probably negligible.

These days, the Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework is more-or-less standard for analyzing BBS data. I wrote a collection of posts about gathering BBS and remote sensing data, summarizing and importing into R, and thereby getting the data frame in shape for an analysis. From there, I would clean up the work space such that only […]

This one may not be as step-by-step, because the GIS layer of BBS routes I have may not have been published yet. Nonetheless, here’s what I did. Cleaning up the spatial data and splitting routes Assigning segment order once the routes are split Summarizing spatial covariates by segment Determining which segments can be considered the same […]