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Monthly Archives: November 2014
First Attempts with the parallel Package
The last time I worked with parallel processing in R I used the package Rmpi. This ws very flexible, but took a lot of setup to handle passing jobs, code, and data between the master and the slave. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged R, Rbloggers
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The Charleston Gazette: Mountaintop removal: The scientific evidence of environmental and health damage continues
Brenee Muncy’s work also got mention in an article by Keith Ward Jr. published on the Charleston Gazette’s blog on October 23.
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Takepart: Sacrificing Wildlife for Big Coal in Appalachia
On October 31 Richard Conniff covered Brenee Muncy’s salamander work in an article published on Takepart — “a digital news & lifestyle magazine and social action platform for the conscious consumer”.
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Mountaintop Removal Mining Reduces Stream Salamander Occupancy and Richness in Southeastern Kentucky (USA) Biological Conservation
Back at the end of September Brenee Muncy’s paper on the effects of mountain top mining on salamander occupancy was accepted for publication in Biological Conservation. The full text is now available online. This paper uses Bayesian occupancy models to … Continue reading
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Tagged MCMC, occupancy, research, salamanders
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Ben Augustine Presents at TWS
On October 27, Ben Augustine presented his work on mark-recapture models with behavioral effects and subsampling at the 2014 Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society in Pittsburgh, PA. This work has also been accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology … Continue reading
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Accounting for Behavioral Response to Capture when Estimating Population Size from Hair Snare Studies with Missing Data
Ben Augustine’s paper on behavioral effects and subsampling has been accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution and is now available online. The work is particularly applicable to studies which use hair snares to capture animals. Snares are … Continue reading
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