Notes

Status for November 21

21 Nov 2016

What have I worked on?

Today was far less about doing stuff, and more about figuring out what I need to be doing. I definitely did push along some projects (see below), but I also took stock of current project stage, and tried to identify ways forward. Much of my current experimental work is waiting on logistics (can’t have more than a couple experiments running at once or we can’t handle the workload).

experimental projects

  • priorityEffects: introductory and methods text. read up on discrete multivariate distributions.

  • dispersalTrait: need to figure out a way to mark beetles easily. painting each individually seems like a fool’s errand.

  • previousOccupancy: waiting until priorityEffects is done. I think the experiment looks solid, but it’s a work-intensive one (900 patches total). Maybe try to trim down replicates.

side projects

  • parasiteSAR: pushed along workflow and analysis. Produced a couple of plots, but nothing final. Need to read a lot before proceeding. Read 3 papers, and laid down some preliminary ideas about workflow structure. Uncharted territory, so I may take this one slowly.

  • popBuffering: in lab hands

  • extinctionChapter: write the abundance/synchrony section, and discuss the role of dispersal. Move some of the earlier discussion of dispersal down (especially since you start with spatially implicit models)

  • rangeShape and flatEarth: in Alan’s hands

  • rangeLean: model dev in Robin’s hands currently. Will be in mine soon, so need to continue to brush up on my C++ (and by “brush up”, I mean “re-learn”).

RCN

  • nodeProperties: update supplemental tables with recent analyses. Check to see if text all still agrees with the results, and then pass a note to collaborators containing a submission deadline

  • hostRange: incorporated Charlie’s comment, and waiting on other people to read it.

  • macroHelminth: looking solid. Vanessa is working on discussion and coherence between modules. I have some code running that will hopefully be done soon.

What should I be working on now?

  • dispersalTrait: think more about how to mark beetles. Maybe run some preliminary trials tomorrow (when stocks are counted).

  • extinctionChapter: write words good.

  • parasiteSAR: lay down more code that isn’t as ugly as existing packages for fitting species-area relationships.

  • hostRange: shunt a figure or two to text, read through and tweak text (small bits), and draft cover letter.

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