Author: Benjamin Blonder
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Celebrating lab students
The end of the academic year is here, and there are many lab members and alumni to celebrate. We’ve been getting together to recognize all sorts of successes and support each other through obstacles – a few photos below. PhD student Courtenay with past lab student Deidra and past postdoc Luiza ‘Easter’ egg hunt with…
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May 19: Renowned composer Marcus Norris x the Richmond High School orchestra x artist Juniper Harrower – an art-science collaboration w/UC Berkeley
The Richmond High School Music Department proudly presents the world orchestral premiere of the Resilience Concertino for violoncello and orchestra composed by Marcus Norris Performed by Adeline Vargas, violoncello, and the Richmond High School Orchestra Also featuring artwork by Juniper Harrower An art-science collaboration with the University of California Berkeley – supported by the National…
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Hiring a postdoc to lead NSF funded project to identify water use strategies to cope with thermal stress
We are seeking to hire a lead Postdoctoral Research Associate to lead a National Science Foundation funded project to identify adaptive water use strategies to cope with extreme thermal stress across a wide range of plant functional types. The project will be based at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ, where the postdoc will…
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Free computational labs for an undergraduate/graduate community ecology class
Do you teach community ecology or are you hoping to learn more about it? I’ve just released a set of 9 computational labs (plus solutions) that I have historically used to teach population and community ecology. They involve learning modern tidyverse R plus various data manipulation techniques, and also enable students to engage with numerous…