Monthly Archives: October 2011

Gentle R – Kernel Methods

Posted on October 30, 2011 by swotherspoon

Gentle R is a regular workshop run at the Australian Antarctic Division to assist those trying to develop skills in the statistical package R. In the next session Simon Wotherspoon will discuss kernel density estimation and kernel smoothing. It will be … Continue reading →

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Biogenic flux along the southern Chilean margin over the past 30,000 years: Implications for Southern Ocean processes

Posted on October 21, 2011 by swotherspoon

Zanna Chase, IMAS Time and date: 12:00 – 12:50 pm, Wednesday, 26th Oct Venue: Seminar room, IMAS Sandy Bay

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Antarctic Peninsula in the Guardian

Posted on October 20, 2011 by swotherspoon

The featured photograph in today’s Guardian is of Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins swimming near Danko Island on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Ocean Fertilisation: Science and Regulation

Posted on October 19, 2011 by swotherspoon

Julia Mayo-Ramsay – Final PhD Seminar Friday, 21 October, 1:00-2:00 PM IMAS Seminar room, Sandy Bay

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ANNIMS Conference 2011

Posted on October 19, 2011 by swotherspoon

The third annual ANNIMS conference will be held from November 29 to 1 December 2011 (inclusive) at the University of Western Australia, Perth. The conference will draw together early career researchers from Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia. The theme of … Continue reading →

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The West Greenland Current System of the Labrador Sea

Posted on October 18, 2011 by swotherspoon

Tatiana Rykova  Physical Oceanographer Princeton, New Jersey Tuesday 18 October 2011, 11.30am CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

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Maps in R

Posted on October 16, 2011 by swotherspoon

Often you want to display some data in its geographic context.  You can produce a range of simple maps in R with the maps and mapdata packages.

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Yeroon!

Posted on October 15, 2011 by swotherspoon

Don’t ask us – we don’t know what it means either.  But at http://yeroon.net/ggplot2/ you’ll find a wonderful graphical interface to Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 package.  With ggplot you can very easily produce some very sophisticated plots, but there is a lot to learn and … Continue reading →

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Lattice vs ggplot2

Posted on October 15, 2011 by swotherspoon

R has several systems for producing complex plots.  Two of the more sophisticated are lattice and ggplot2.  Lattice is documented in Deepayan Sarkar’s book Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R; ggplot2 is based on the the concepts presented in The Grammar … Continue reading →

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BOTES Drinks

Posted on October 14, 2011 by swotherspoon

The next BOTES drinks & nibbles will be held Friday Oct 14, in the velvet lounge in the IMAS building.  All welcome. The Bottom of the Earth Society (BOTES) is a student-based organisation at UTas, that aims to encourage and assist … Continue reading →

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