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BibTeX Styles – Limnology and Oceanography

Posted on April 14, 2012 by swotherspoon

TR recently drew my attention to the repository of BibTeX style files for automatically formatting bibliographies according to requirements of various journals.

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Overplot

Posted on February 15, 2012 by swotherspoon

Overplotting is when one point in a plot obscures another, giving a misleading impression of the density of the data in that area.  Overplot is a common problem for larger data sets, or when the data are discrete.

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Distributed strain and temperature sensors – Opportunities for Earth and Ocean Sciences

Posted on February 14, 2012 by swotherspoon

Dr Lufan Zou Technical Director OZ Optics Ltd Thursday 23 Feb, 10:00 Centenary 205 (old IASOS seminar room)

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Utilizing ancillary data to learn about hidden processes in Capture-Mark-Recapture studies

Posted on January 22, 2012 by swotherspoon

Tom Bird – PhD confirmation seminar Date: Friday 27 January, 4pm Venue:  IMAS Seminar Room, Sandy Bay

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Improved satellite chlorophyll algorithms for the Southern Ocean

Posted on January 18, 2012 by swotherspoon

Robert Johnson1, Peter Strutton1, Simon Wright2, Andrew McMinn1, Klaus Meiners3 1Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston 3Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart IMAS Seminar Room … Continue reading →

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Elephant Seals in the Guardian

Posted on January 13, 2012 by swotherspoon

The featured photograph in today’s Guardian is of bull elephant seals in South Georgia.

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Gibbs Sampling from Hidden Markov Models

Posted on November 27, 2011 by swotherspoon

A number of students are either currently working with or have been asking about the algorithm to Gibbs sample from a hidden Markov model described in Scott, S.L., 2002. Bayesian Methods for Hidden Markov Models. Journal of the American Statistical … Continue reading →

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Master of Antarctic Science final seminars

Posted on November 2, 2011 by swotherspoon

The Master of Antarctic Science final seminars will be held in the IMAS seminar room, Thursday 3rd November at 1pm.  The program will be:  Sarah Payne 1.00-1.30: Temporal trends in the sensitivity of Antarctic marine zooplankton communities exposed to a diesel fuel. Lara … Continue reading →

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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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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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