Cornwell Falster lab meetings


1	Date	Topic	Details	Location
2	23/12/22	No meeting	Xmas break
3	16/12/22	Social event	End of year Xmas outing
4	9/12/22	Coding skills	Isaac on Debugging code	hybrid
5	2/12/22	No meeting	(ESA conference)
6	25/11/22	Talk	Practice talks for ESA conference	hybrid
7	18/11/22	Talk	Practice talks for ESA conference	hybrid
8	11/11/22	Talk	Hons students presenting their work (Mira, Gillian, others?)	hybrid
9	4/11/22	Coding skills	Lizzy on making maps for her books in R	hybrid	(Daniel, Isaac, Will away)
10	28/10/22	Coding skills		hybrid	(Daniel, Isaac, Lizzy away)
11	21/10/22	Coding skills	Lab sustainability (part 2)	hybrid
12	14/10/22	Lab discussion	Interview skills	hybrid
13	7/10/22	Lab discussion	Julia Chabros: Could our labs be more sustainable?	hybrid
14	30/09/22	Talk	amazing pictures from Thomas and Sophie trip to WA	hybrid
15	23/09/22		EERC coffee with uDASH at 3pm	hybrid
16	16/09/22	Research update	BEES3041 students: Endemism in Australian flora	hybrid
17	9/09/22	Research update	BEES 3041 students: Climate predictability	hybrid
18	2/09/22	Lab discussion	Non-binary discussion	hybrid
19	26/08/22	Coding skills	intermediate coding skills discussion	hybrid
20	19/08/22	Journal club	Discuss paper: Lynch, Kate E., and Daniel T. Blumstein. "Effective conservation." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35.10 (2020): 857-860.	hybrid
21	12/08/22	Lab discussion	Figure workshopping part 2	hybrid	(Daniel away)
22	5/08/22	Lab discussion	Figure workshopping part 1	hybrid	(Daniel away)
23	29/07/22	Coding skills	Favorite mapping tips in R--bring your favorite geographic function	hybrid
24	22/07/22	Journal club	Discuss paper: Large loss and rapid recovery of vegetation cover and aboveground biomass over forest areas in Australia during 2019–2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113087	hybrid
25	15/07/22	Research update	David discusses API for AusTraits
26	8/07/22	Research update	Karina Guo -- machine learning a leaf dataset for Eucalyptus		(Daniel away)
27	1/07/22	Journal club	tropical forest recovery https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh3629	hybrid
28	24/06/22	Research update	Julia Chabros - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
29	17/06/22	No meeting	(Will & Daniel away)	zoom	(Daniel away)
30	10/06/22	Research update	Isaac: impromptu ecology	hybrid	(Daniel away)
31	3/06/22	Research update	Will Magney - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
32	27/05/22	Research update	Martin Westgate and Dax Kellie - will present the latest from ALA	hybrid
33	20/05/22	Research update	Tour of Chronos	in person
34	13/05/22	No meeting	(Will & Daniel away)
35	6/05/22	No meeting	(Will & Daniel away)
36	29/04/22	Research update	Fonti Kar - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
37	22/04/22	Research update	Fiona Robinson - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
38	15/04/22	No meeting	(Easter Friday)
39	8/04/22	Research update	Tess O'Brien - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
40	1/04/22	Research update	Isaac Towers - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
41	25/03/22	No meeting	(UNSW flexi week)
42	18/03/22	No meeting	(EERC BBQ)
43	11/03/22	Research update	Mira Jordan & Will Cornwell - will introduce their projects on Fire emphemerals	hybrid
44	4/03/22	Research update	Sophie Yang - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	hybrid
45	25/02/22	Research update	Dony Indiarto - will present the latest from their research / some research ideas	zoom
46	18/02/22	Research update	Lizzy Wenk - will present her suggested revision to AusTraits data formats, hoping for feedback from the group	zoom
47	11/02/22	No meeting	(Will & Daniel teaching)
48	4/02/22	Research update	Rebecca Stolper & Thomas Mesaglio - will introduce their projects	zoom
49	28/01/22	Guest talk	Dr Laura Williams - will tell us about her research, after a PhD and PostDoc in the US, working at UMN (https://www.spectralbiology.org/team-profiles/laura-williams)	zoom
50	21/01/22	No meeting	(Summer)	zoom
51	17/12/21	Social event	End of year Xmas outing	La Perouse
52	10/12/21	Talk	Ashleigh Ford presenting her Honours Project on Regrowth after fire	zoom
53	3/12/21	No meeting	(BEES post grad reviews)
54	26/11/21	No meeting	(ESA conference)
55	19/11/21	Talk	Practice talks in preparation for upcoming Postgraduate/Honours Review Forum (Tess, Fiona, Lily)	zoom
56	12/11/21	Journal club	An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19, http://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02057-2	zoom
57	5/11/21	Journal club	Chloroplast Distribution in the Stems of 23 Eucalypt Species https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/12/1814/htm	zoom
58	29/10/21	Journal club	the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17822	zoom
59	22/10/21	No meeting	(Recharge week)
60	15/10/21	Research update	Fonti Kar will be giving a practice talk on her upcoming Seminar for Macquarie University	zoom
61	8/10/21	Lab discussion	How does everyone feel about Uni's plans to open up after COVID?	zoom
62	1/10/21	Show & tell	Bring a figure/graphic display item (sensu latu) that you've found (not made by you) that sparks joy!
63	24/09/21	Show & tell	Bring one R function that brings you joy (and that you can explain in 3 minutes).
64	17/09/21	Journal club	Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: a review of tools, databases, and best practices, https://ecoevorxiv.org/e3qnz/	zoom
65	10/09/21	Talk	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
66	3/08/21	No meeting	Take the day off, rejuvenate	zoom
67	27/08/21	Coding skills	Will Cornwell will share his recent efforts to clean distribution data from GBIF for Australia.	zoom
68	20/08/21	Coding skills	Community feedback on the new austraits package	zoom
69	13/08/21	Analysis	Predictability of rainfall and temperature	zoom
70	6/08/21	Analysis	Predictability of rainfall and temperature	zoom
71	30/07/21	Talk	Practice talks in preparation for upcoming Postgraduate Review Forum	zoom
72	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
73	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
74	9/07/21	Analysis	Do traits of Australian drylands follow global patterns?	zoom
75	2/07/21	Analysis	Do traits of Australian drylands follow global patterns?	zoom
76	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
77	18/06/21	Journal club	Epicormic Resprouting in Fire-Prone Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.08.010	Samuels, Rm113
78	11/06/21	No meeting
79	4/06/21	No meeting
80	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
81	21/05/2021	Research update	Dony Indiarto: How the shape of the fitness landscape modifies species persistence under change	Samuels, Rm113
82	14/05/2021	No meeting
83	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
84	30/04/2021	Talk	Dony Indiarto: Using Notion for Note taking & lab notebook	Samuels, Rm113
85	23/04/2021	Lab discussion	Brainstorm potential topics for future environmental computing sessions	Samuels, Rm113
86	16/04/2021	Research update	Isaac Towers on Spatial heterogeneity as a driver of species coexistence in the annual plant understorey of an Australian semi-arid woodland	Samuels, Rm113
87	09/04/2021	Journal club	Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01411-5	Samuels, Rm113
88	26/03/2021	Research update	Phil Zylstra: Modelling the flammability of vegetation
89	19/03/2021	No meeting
90	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
91	05/03/2021	Research update	Saskia Grootemaat: What’s behind the maps? Q and A with a bushfire analyst
92	19/02/2021	Lab discussion	Welcoming new team members and delicious gluten-free cakes from Will
93	08/01/2021	Research update	Will Cornwell present a practice talk for a department's seminar.
94	18/12/2020	Social event	Lab christmas lunch
95	04/12/2020	No meeting	Attending the Ecological Society of Australia conference
96	27/11/2020	Lab discussion	Tess O'Brien will present thoughts on the use of language in academic writing.
97	20/11/2020	Talk	Neil Ross & Dony Indiarto will present practice talks for the upcoming Postgrad Review Forum
98	13/11/2020	Journal club	George Orwell (1946) Politics and the english language
99	06/11/2020	Research update	Manon Sabot will present work from her PhD comparing different stomatal models
100	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
101	23/10/2020	Lab discussion	Brainstorm some research ideas for research projects at Fowlers gap.
102	16/10/2020	Research update	Thomas Mesaglio will tells us about his recent efforts surverying an endangered community in Western Sydney
103	09/10/2020	No meeting	(Daniel away)
104	02/10/2020	No meeting	(Daniel away)
105	25/09/2020	Lab discussion	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
106	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
107	11/09/2020	Lab discussion	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.
108	04/09/2020	Research update	Baptiste Wijas will present data from a chapter of his PhD. Come along to hear about food web structure in NSW's wild west.
109	28/08/2020	Lab discussion	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.
110	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.
111	14/08/2020	No meeting	The BEES postgrad review forum (PRF) is happening this week
112	07/08/2020	Talk	Lab members practicing for the upcoming post grad review
113	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
114	24/07/2020	Guest talk	Presentation from Nadia Santini, streaming live from Mexico. She talked about Conservation of ecosystem carbon stocks to mitigate climate change.
115	17/07/2020	No meeting
116	10/07/2020	No meeting
117	03/07/2020	No meeting
118	26/06/2020	Lab discussion	Daniel & Dony recently attended the vISEC 2020 conference. We'll discuss what worked, and more generally discuss science social media (pros and cons).
119	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.
120	12/06/2020	No meeting
121	05/06/2020	Lab discussion	We continued the discussion about scientific review process.
122	29/05/2020	Lab discussion	Baptiste led a discussion on scientific review process and he shared his experience about it.
123	22/05/2020	Coding skills	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.
124	15/05/2020	Guest talk	Andrew Letten from UQ presented his work on the application ecological theory to antibiotic resistance.
125	08/05/2020	Guest talk	Habacuc Flores-Moreno presented the work he's doing up in Cairns on the importance of termites to Australian ecosystems.
126	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
127	24/04/2020	Research update	Hervé gave a talk about his brand new trait capture project from herbarium records at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
128	17/04/2020	Research update	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.
129	10/04/2020	Lab discussion	We were trying to get accustomed to video conferencing-based lab meeting.
130	03/04/2020	Talk	Daniel gave a practice talk for a lecture about quantitative ecology. He also shared his work on plant model.
131	27/03/2020	Research update	Ashleigh shared her honours project about dendrochronology of two australian tree species.
132	20/03/2020	Research update	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.
133	13/03/2020	Research update	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.
134	06/03/2020	Research update	Baptiste sharing his exploration on termite traits and their responses to climate gradients across Australia.
135	28/02/2020	No meeting
136	21/02/2020	Lab discussion	General catchup
137	14/02/2020	No meeting	The AFB field trip is happening this week
138	07/02/2020	Research update	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.
139	31/01/2020	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.
140	24/01/2020	Research update	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 club	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 club	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.
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9	Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534721002846?dgcid
10	Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems	https://storage.googleapis.com/pirk.io/projects/synthetic_silviculture/index.html
11	Fire trends in Aus	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27225-4
12	Recovery rates of tropical forests	https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh3629
13	description of species from photographs	https://jor.pensoft.net/article/65885/?fbclid=IwAR3cg9t-VNo-OSmFHhQKjOJfYlPh7F3ZxN4RcOaToSByKaYdfmO1boZJrOY
14	unprecedented Australian fossil site	https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm1406
15	The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12816
16	Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01616-8.pdf
17	Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits	http://doi.org/10.1086/718642
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