Avian Ecologist

#NameThatBirdSong Digest

This week’s bird of the week is American goldfinch! Here’s the collection of birds that has been featured this spring/summer: chipping sparrow red-eyed vireo warbling vireo song sparrow chestnut-sided warbler Baltimore oriole merlin common grackle

Linux: Find Tricks

I used this to find files whose names match a regular expression, that also aren’t empty. Then I cut the filenames by underscores and kept the 2nd field. I dumped that list into a file. find -name “o*” -size +0 | cut -d “_” -f 2 > successful_model ls results_copy > filenames ls results_copy | […]

WI Butterflies – End of July

All of them are found in Douglas Co. (with varying commonness)! mustard white purplish fritillary common branded skipper

A Laptop Overhaul

Long story short, my computer was having some serious issues that led me to back up all my files, update my BIOS and get rid of my Ubuntu partition to reinstall Windows. It’s not so bad, though, in that it gives me a really fresh start to re-envision my hard drive partitioning. The only thing […]

Lab Notebook: Trials & Errors

So I think in trying out the R package “inlabru,” and then installing all sorts of experimental updates/upgrades to try to debug it, I broke the dependencies (or something) for my R-INLA install on the HPC system. Now I can’t run R-INLA models without getting some sort of error. I’m waiting to see if we […]

Specs

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09) 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Camarillo Device (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03) […]

Lab Notebook: Today’s HPC Adventure

made sure to read in file with as.is=TRUE scaled time = time/max(time) scaled VCF

Jutta Arctic

This is the best week of the year to see one!

June Rare Birds – St. Louis Co., MN

pomarine jaeger Scott’s oriole

Best Computing Practices: Climate

This is Part 1 of “Best Computing Practices for Ecologists,” laid out with ecology themes & analogies! I wanted to start with what “climate zone” you live in, and where you might be happiest as an organism. In this analogy, I’m talking about your operating system. This is where you start interfacing with a computer: no […]