Author: Benjamin Blonder
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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…
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Botanical Entanglements: An Ecological Art Exhibit
Botanical Entanglements: An Ecological Art Exhibit UC Botanical Garden March 12-18| 10 am – 4 pm daily | Free with Admission Botanical Entanglements is a site-specific ecological art exhibition that explores embedded histories in plant form. With this work, artist and ecologist Dr. Juniper Harrower is interested in the ethnobotanical histories and localized ecologies of…
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Visualizing genetic predictors of forest mortality
Co-author Ian Breckheimer recently put together a beautiful visualization of our recent paper on cytotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen – check it out!
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Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the College Classroom: A rubric and resource guide for instructors
A course redesign tool developed by the UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in partnership with the UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning Practices in our classrooms change the course of students’ academic trajectories, self-confidence, and ultimately, their perceptions of how they are respected or included in our broader society. Our…