Cornwell Falster lab meetings


1	Date	Topic	Details	Location
2	28/01/22	Welcome 2022
3	17/12/21	Xmas event	End of year outing
4	10/12/21	Talk	Ashleigh Ford presenting her Honours Project on Regrowth after fire
5	3/12/21
6	26/11/21	No meeting	ESA conference
7	19/11/21	Talks	Practice talks in preparation for upcoming Postgraduate/Honours Review Forum (Tess, Becca, Fiona, Lily)
8	12/11/21
9	5/11/21
10	29/10/21
11	22/10/21	No meeting	Recharge week
12	15/10/21	Talk	Fonti Kar will be giving a practice talk on her upcoming Seminar for Macquarie University	zoom
13	8/10/21	Discussion	How does everyone feel about Uni's plans to open up after COVID?	zoom
14	1/10/21	Show & tell	Bring a figure/graphic display item (sensu latu) that you've found (not made by you) that sparks joy!
15	24/09/21	Show & tell	Bring one R function that brings you joy (and that you can explain in 3 minutes).
16	17/09/21	Journal club	Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: a review of tools, databases, and best practices, https://ecoevorxiv.org/e3qnz/	zoom
17	10/09/21	Hikes & changing veg in the Sierra Nevada	Lizzy Wenk will tell us about her recent trip tothe Sierra Nevada,including the hikes and her growing compilation of photos showing long term vegetation change.	zoom
18	3/08/21	Well being day	Take the day off, rejuvenate	zoom
19	27/08/21	Cleaning gbif for Australian Veg	Will Cornwell will share his recent efforts to clean distribution data from GBIF for Australia.	zoom
20	20/08/21	austraits	Community feedback on the new austraits package	zoom
21	13/08/21	Analysis	Predictability of rainfall and temperature	zoom
22	6/08/21	Analysis	Predictability of rainfall and temperature	zoom
23	30/07/21	Practice talks	Practice talks in preparation for upcoming Postgraduate Review Forum	zoom
24	23/07/21	Show & tell	Take up to 3mins to tell us about something cool or quirky you’ve encountered/discovered this week. Can be a paper you read, problem you solved, observation. Anything!!!	zoom
25	16/07/21	Journal club	Jiang et al. 2017 Biome-specific climatic space defined by temperature and precipitation predictability. doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12635	zoom
26	9/07/21	Analysis	Do traits of Australian drylands follow global patterns?	zoom
27	2/07/21	Analysis	Do traits of Australian drylands follow global patterns?	zoom
28	25/06/21	Journal club	Maestre et al. (2021) Biogeography of global drylands. New Phytologist 231: 540–558. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17395	zoom
29	18/06/21	Journal club	Epicormic Resprouting in Fire-Prone Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.08.010	Samuels, Rm113
30	11/06/21	No meeting
31	4/06/21	No meeting
32	28/05/21	Journal club	The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01464-6	Samuels, Rm113
33	21/05/2021	Dony Indiarto	How the shape of the fitness landscape modifies species persistence under change	Samuels, Rm113
34	14/05/2021	No meeting
35	07/05/2021	Journal club	A Second Chance to Get Causal Inference Right: A Classification of Data Science Tasks https://doi.org/10.1080/09332480.2019.1579578	Samuels, Rm113
36	30/04/2021	Dony Indiarto	Using Notion for Note taking & lab notebook	Samuels, Rm113
37	23/04/2021	Environmental computing	Brainstorm potential topics for future environmental computing sessions	Samuels, Rm113
38	16/04/2021	Isaac Towers	Spatial heterogeneity as a driver of species coexistence in the annual plant understorey of an Australian semi-arid woodland	Samuels, Rm113
39	09/04/2021	Journal club	Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01411-5	Samuels, Rm113
40	26/03/2021	Phil Zylstra	Modelling the flammability of vegetation
41	19/03/2021	No meeting
42	12/03/2021	Journal club	Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West, 10.1126/science.abe5585
43	05/03/2021	Saskia Grootemaat	What’s behind the maps? Q and A with a bushfire analyst
44	19/02/2021	Intro to 2021	Welcoming new team members and delicious gluten-free cakes from Will
45	08/01/2021	Will Cornwell	Will present a practice talk for a department's seminar.
46	18/12/2020	Lab christmas lunch	Merry Christmas!
47	04/12/2020	No meeting	Attending the Ecological Society of Australia conference
48	27/11/2020	Power and Academic Discourse	Tess O'Brien will present thoughts on the use of language in academic writing.
49	20/11/2020	PRF practice talks	Neil Ross & Dony Indiarto will present practice talks for the upcoming Postgrad Review Forum
50	13/11/2020	Journal club	George Orwell (1946) Politics and the english language
51	06/11/2020	Manon Sabot	Manon will present work from her PhD comparing different stomatal models
52	30/10/2020	Journal club	On the Three Major Recycling Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.04.004; Alternative Biome States in Terrestrial Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.11.003
53	23/10/2020	Brainstorming: Fowlers gap	Brainstorm some research ideas for research projects at Fowlers gap.
54	16/10/2020	Thomas Mesaglio	Thomas will tells us about his recent efforts surverying an endangered community in Western Sydney
55	09/10/2020		(Daniel away)
56	02/10/2020		(Daniel away)
57	25/09/2020	Best ecological TED talks	This week we're going to bliss out watching some of the best TED talks on ecological themes. EG. Valentin Hammoudi on How tall can a tree grow, https://www.ted.com/talks/valentin_hammoudi_how_tall_can_a_tree_grow
58	18/09/2020	Journal club	McGee et al 2020, The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation, Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2652-7
59	11/09/2020	Discussion: The new future of work	The pandemic is changing how we work. Take a listen to episode #194-The new future of work (https://samharris.org/podcasts/194-new-future-work/), of Sam Harris's "Making Sense" podcast, where "Sam speaks with Matt Mullenweg (founder of Wordpress) about the evolution of distributed work." Come with at least one suggestion for something we could do as a lab, centre or school to embrace and enhance the current time in university academic life.
60	04/09/2020	Kangaroos, toilet rolls & termites	Baptiste Wijas will present data from a chapter of his PhD. Come along to hear about food web structure in NSW's wild west.
61	28/08/2020	Reinventing the academic conference	Daniel will lead a brainstorming session about ideas for making remote/distributed/online academic conferences fun and engaging. Our ideas will be submitted to the organisers for this year's conference of the Ecological Society of Australia, which will be held online. We're in particular looking for ideas for social events, running a good poster session, networking. As preparation, read some articles (e.g http://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02057-2, http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.02.022079), search for blog posts, think, and bring at least one idea for a suggested event.
62	21/08/2020	Journal club	Schleuning, Matthias, et al. "Trait-based assessments of climate-change impacts on interacting species." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35.4 (2020): 319-328.
63	14/08/2020	No meeting	The BEES postgrad review forum (PRF) is happening this week
64	07/08/2020	Practice talks	Lab members practicing for the upcoming post grad review
65	31/07/2020	Journal club	Culina et al 2020 "Low availability of code in ecology: A call for urgent action", http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000763
66	24/07/2020	Guest talk: Conservation of ecosystem carbon stocks to mitigate climate change	Presentation from Nadia Santini, streaming live from Mexico. She talked about Conservation of ecosystem carbon stocks to mitigate climate change.
67	17/07/2020	No meeting
68	10/07/2020	No meeting
69	03/07/2020	No meeting
70	26/06/2020	Review of vISEC	Daniel & Dony recently attended the vISEC 2020 conference. We'll discuss what worked, and more generally discuss science social media (pros and cons).
71	19/06/2020	Five mins of cool	Each person brings a paper published in 2020 that they think is super cool. Then they have 5 minutes to explain why the paper is so cool and answer questions about it. Can be on any topic from literature to termites eating literature. The timer is just so we don't spend too long on the first ones and we make sure everyone gets a turn.
72	12/06/2020	No meeting
73	05/06/2020	Scientific publishing	We continued the discussion about scientific review process.
74	29/05/2020	Scientific publishing	Baptiste led a discussion on scientific review process and he shared his experience about it.
75	22/05/2020	Coding club	Will introduced the tools from the brand new easystats project, which seems to be mostly social sciences people, but a lot of the stats and tools are also applicable to our problems. Will showed how the package is useful for generating plots and tables from models, which is something that's always been difficult.
76	15/05/2020	Guest talk: The application of ecological theory to antibiotic ressistance	Andrew Letten from UQ presented his work on the application ecological theory to antibiotic resistance.
77	08/05/2020	Guest talk: The role of termites to Australian ecosystems	Habacuc Flores-Moreno presented the work he's doing up in Cairns on the importance of termites to Australian ecosystems.
78	01/05/2020	Journal club	Jacquet, Claire, Isabelle Gounand, and Florian Altermatt. "How pulse disturbances shape size‐abundance pyramids." Ecology Letters 23.6 (2020): 1014-1023
79	24/04/2020	Research update: Trait capture project	Hervé gave a talk about his brand new trait capture project from herbarium records at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
80	17/04/2020	Research update: Australian forest history	Simon presented his study on the history of land use on national parks along the north east coast of NSW. He shared his experience collating pieces of information from numerous government archives and environmental reports from that region.
81	10/04/2020	Casual catch-up	We were trying to get accustomed to video conferencing-based lab meeting.
82	03/04/2020	Practice talk	Daniel gave a practice talk for a lecture about quantitative ecology. He also shared his work on plant model.
83	27/03/2020	Research update: Dendrochronology in Australian trees	Ashleigh shared her honours project about dendrochronology of two australian tree species.
84	20/03/2020	Research update: population dynamics of larval fish	Charlie presented his project on building an age-sized structured fish population model. He emphasised how an equation, which has been exclusively used in studying plant population dynamics, can be useful for his fish model.
85	13/03/2020	Research update: Trait response to environmental gradients within species and across communities	Dony presented his meta-analysis about trait response to environmental gradient. This was our last face-to-face meeting as it was the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in NSW. We held the meeting on the lawn in front of the biological sciences building.
86	06/03/2020	Research update: the biogeography of termite traits across Australia	Baptiste sharing his exploration on termite traits and their responses to climate gradients across Australia.
87	28/02/2020	No meeting
88	21/02/2020	Will	General catchup
89	14/02/2020	No meeting	The AFB field trip is happening this week
90	07/02/2020	Research update: Bushfire recovery project	Will showed the data from Casey's citizen science initiative. We had a play with the data and brainstormed some ideas that could emerge from the data.
91	31/01/2020	Practice Talk	Corrine Edwards had a practice talk for her honours final presentation: common tree dtella geckoes that feed on the sap of prickly wattle at UNSW's Fowlers Gap field station.
92	24/01/2020	Research update: Summer of fires in Aus	Will Cornwell leading a discussion about research possibilities arising from Australia's summer of fire
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1	Future Plans
2	Who	What	Details	Notes
3	Dony	Journal Discussion	Ch 1 from The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks -- "Darwin and the meaning of flowers"	He delivers the readers, without being pretentious, to sense how deep and profound Darwin's theory is
4	Dony	Journal Discussion	Last Ch from The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks -- "Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science"	It explains how science often a discovery in science is a re-discovery because we don't have a complete picture of what has been studied. He shares his views on what we can learn from this.