Archive for month: April, 2016
Posters!
The last couple of weeks, I have been working on my poster for my capstone class. This poster will be presented at SAGE research conference at CSU Channel on Saturday, May 14th. Here is a sneak peak of what I will be presenting on.
Everything good comes to an end
April 29, 2016
Hi everyone!
Well this is it, the final count down before spring semester is over! Congratulations to all the students who are graduating this semester, I wish you guys the best! For the students who have a little bit more to go, hang in there we can get through this and all the sleepless nights will be worth it in the end (Cheesy I know).
My poster is finished!
This week I put the final touches on my poster for the Sage conference, now its time to finish my paper. I have been working on my paper in sections throughout the year and have my introduction and methods finished. Now it’s time for the meat of the paper, the results and discussion. It is going to be a long hard struggle the next two weeks as I finish up my paper and make sure it is at a professional level. The end is in sight and it will be nice to take a well deserved break after all this work I have put in.
I also had some encouragement from my research adviser, who said that he would like me to publish my paper. He suggested that I combine my paper with Evangeline Forster’s paper who did the same common garden experiment but with Torrey pines. If we decide to go this route it will mean another long year of research and writing but it will be worth it if we get a publication in the end.
Progress Update
The past few weeks, I have been crunching numbers and analyzing my data. The past couple days, I have finally proven my hypothesis to be correct of the two watersheds not to be significantly different. The comparison of the two watersheds had to eliminate some of the sites in Water Canyon to keep a high validity. Meaning, Water Canyon was surveyed from the upper most reaches to the ocean, while Quemada was only surveyed in the lower reaches. Water Canyon has a fault that runs through it, making the substrate in the portions near the fault to be drastically different from the rest of the watershed and Quemada. Those sites were eliminated from the comparison, as well as the sites in Water Canyon that were in the upper reaches with significantly higher slopes than Quemada. In the final analysis, Water Canyon had 11 sites and Quemada had 10. Both of which had similar substrate and slope. After running statistical tests, there was a high p-value of 0.8 between the two watersheds, meaning they are not significantly different. This was the case in multiple tests including: a unique species to total individuals ratio, evenness, and heterogeneity.
The blue and purple regions on the graph indicate the site locations that were grouped together to run statistical analysis.
7 Strategies for a Successful Online Summer Session
Co-Authored by Michelle Dean, Assistant Professor, Special Education and Jaime Hannans, Assistant Professor, Nursing Summer is almost here … Who’s teaching summer school? Summer session in 5 weeks – no problem. From the student perspective what better choice is there than to get some required courses out of the way over in 4-6 weeks instead […]
First Draft Map
This week, I’m working on my poster for capstone which will showcase all my work this past year. Here is my main map for the poster. These are the randomly generated plot points which I sampled.
POSTER TIME!!!!
For the past couple weeks I have been working on my poster for the Sage Conference. This is the culmination of all my research over the year and has been a lot of work as I analyze my data. At the conference I will be presenting along side many of my colleagues who are also presenting on many interesting topics. I you are reading this you are probably interested in research and you are welcome to come to the Sage Conference on May 14 at 9 am in the library on Cal State Channel Islands campus.
Finalizing my Poster
Last week we looked at the first draft of our posters. Since then we revised them and are going to work again today to peer review them. This is what mine looks like so far. This week I will work to make my graphs in plotly instead of excel.
Poster Complete
I finally finished formatting my poster. It’s starting to look good. I have to make some final touch ups and finalize my text.
Other than that, my project is coming along well. All I have to do is slap together my paper, revise it 72 times as well as my figures, and turn it in (to Dr. O’Hirok), then edit it another four or five times, then turn it in!
