Conservation Ecology Group @ Durham University
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Lab Meeting Schedule: 

Date, Time, Topic, Meeting Leader

TBD

Lab Meeting Ideas:
  • Paper Discussion – classic paper, new paper, especially challenging paper, highly debated paper, etc. 
  • Stats workshop – bring your stats questions or problems and we will work through them as a group. 
  • Ecology theme – discussion, read papers on a topic, debated theory (i.e. IDH)
  • Workshop style lab meeting – R, ggplot, stats topic, field techniques, identification, grant writing, Mendeley, Access, Visual Basic, etc. 
  • Discuss Phil’s 2005 paper “Information Theory and Hypothesis testing...”
  • Discuss Nakagawa et al. paper 2007 “Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: a practical guide for biologists”
  • R discussion – everyone brings an R problem or R tip
  • Building a literature database in Mendeley or writing a review paper
  • How to do a meta-analysis or reading Nakagawa et al. paper “Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis”
  • Specific Stats Topic – how to do a particular of analysis
  • Non-academic careers
  • Publishing, reviewing, etc.
  • Networking and collaboration
  • Practice Talk
  • Update/Results – multiple people present recent interesting results 
  • Managing large databases - Access, R, etc.
  • Discuss the Scientific Process
  • Grant Writing 
  • Debating
  • Yellowstone Trophic Cascade Debate

Please feel free to add to this list or to send us your ideas! 
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