Special notes from Prof. Spangler will appear here frequently and should, therefore, be checked daily by enrolled students. Notices are posted in descending order, most recent at the top of the list.
December
4, 2007 --
The link to the "R Compendium" document worked irregularly due to server behaviour,
so I changed it to another format. The Compendium is available from the link
for Week 2 of the Lab, or from the Sept. 6 date on the Syllabus page. Please
let me know soon if you intend to do an extra-credit R function for the compendium.
November
27, 2007
-- Welcome
back from Thanksgiving break. I promised a couple of weeks ago to give you a
reference to a recent revision of Andres von Brandt's "Fish Catching Methods
of the World". This is an edited revision of the original 1964 book that
FAO sponsored. It is a wonderful survey of the art and craft of fishing methods.
Almost any fisheries biologist would want to add this to her/his Christmas list: Gabriel,
O., K. Lange, E. Dahn and T. Wendt [eds.]. 2005. Fish Catching Methods of the
World. Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., Oxford, UK. 523 pages.
Here's Amazon's listing:
Fish Catching Methods of the World (Hardcover)
by Otto Gabriel (Author), Klaus Lange (Author), Erdmann Dahm (Author), Thomas
Wendt (Author)
Key Phrases: Fish Catching Methods of the World, Black Sea, New Zealand (more...)
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List Price: $209.99 If you are suffering from sticker
shock, as I am, there are some used copies available (for not much less?):18
used & new available from $158.87
Our library (EFW) has a copy, but I have it checked out. See me if you want to peruse it before adding it to your Christmas list.
October
18, 2007 Because
of jury duty next week, we will not meet in lecture Oct. 23. Your take-home
exams will be distributed to you (MSWord or PDF files) by email on Monday,
Oct. 22. Please print them out and hand-write your answers to the questions.
They are due at the beginning of the lecture hour
on October 30, 2007. The lab schedule has also been revised, please check this
page frequently for any developing news related to my term of jury duty.
September
24, 2007 --
Note that the syllabus no longer announces a "Quiz" on September 25. That
purpose was served by having the take-home quiz that you turned in last week. Note
also that John Verzani's "Simple R" pdf file is accessible to you as a resource
for further understanding the R programming environment. That file ( RSRCS/PDF
Notes/Verzani-SimpleR .pdf ) is available for download on the internet,
so using the local copy will not violate copyright, and, you are welcome
to visit John Verzani's website (Google it) to download a personal copy.
September
6, 2007 -- As
promised in class today, the details of the NOAA winter workshop in Florida
are as follows:
All-Expenses-Paid NOAA Winter Workshop in Florida for Undergraduate Students
Announcing the Fifth Annual
MARINE RESOURCES POPULATION DYNAMICS WORKSHOP
January 5-11, 2008
Summerland Key, Florida
All expenses paid for the 15 undergraduate students selected to participate.
Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service and Virginia Tech.
Do you like math and receive A's in your math courses? Do you have a basic understanding of ecology? Do you want to play an important role in the conservation and management of our environment and natural resources? If so, the field of population dynamics may be right for you.
In the past four years, 61 students representing 38 colleges and universities in 20 states have participated in this workshop. All 61 replied that they would recommend this workshop to others and 80% of the participants agreed that they had developed a betters sense of what they would like to do for a career because of the workshop.
For more information and to find application materials, visit our website at: http://www.nmfs.vt.edu/workshops.htm
Applications are due on October 1st, 2007. (Please note that this year's deadline is one month earlier than previous years.)
____________________________________
Jim Berkson, Ph.D.
Unit Leader and Associate Professor
NOAA Fisheries Service RTR Unit at Virginia Tech
114 Cheatham Hall (0321)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
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