Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial

Please plan to attend this evening’s event at First Mag and tomorrow’s panel about Red Tide at 3 pm. Announcements have gone out with the details. Each of these will be fun and informative! Thanks–Bruce

Hi, all –

I’m the VP of the SE section of NAGT and there is an upcoming award nomination deadline for an Outstanding Earth Science Teacher: https://nagt.org/nagt/awards/oest-nom.html

There is a brief application to fill out but we need some nominations from Florida – there are currently only 2 in for our entire section and they are from Mississippi. I am happy to help write up responses but don’t know any FL teachers intimately. I am going to make up a post for the SE NAGT Facebook page today so I can share it into FAST and teacher groups on FB but please please consider nominating someone you have worked with. Our deadline is May 1st (short deadline, I know).

cc @adania-flemming@imagallanes@cgrant@michael-ziegler@mackenzie-smith@smoran@jeanette-pirlo@vperez@rnarducci@bmacfadden@molly-selba

Hey Guys,

Just checking that we are meeting on Wednesday? The two students I am mentoring for Adania’s class would like to join us for our lab meeting as both a part of their classroom assignments, but also to join in on any discussion. Just making sure we do have a meeting scheduled for this week.

Thanks!

Hey guys, for those of you interested in upgrading the website. The prices including URL and HOSTING are: $5/mo, $60/1 year or $108/2 years. This is for the personal site, which lets you have .com and .org, etc. There is a cheaper version, but the extension of your URL will be .blog. However, that is the only difference and you get the same features and server space for both.

Anyhow, I am available to help any of you individually or a small group since we didn’t have enough time yesterday to get through the basics.

Thanks @cgrant. I was sent a Zoom link from @jeanette-pirlo. I will join the meeting via the link. Thanks @jbauer for your ppt!

 
GSA Webinar: Exploring a Career in the Paleontology Field
http://gsageobiology.blogspot.com/2019/04/gsa-webinar-exploring-career-in.html

Meeting regular time today. Catch-up unless someone has something planned. Bruce

What would it take for an avalanche of people testing the new eMuseum, soon? (see above, very exciting)?

If you are interested in phylogenetic methods at all, Tracy Heath will be in town and there will be two opportunities to learn from her this week:

Tracy Heath (http://phyloworks.org/) is giving the FLMNH seminar this Friday and we thought there would be an interest in a RevBayes discussion, so there will be one this Thursday 4 -5:30 in the Dickinson Hall seminar room (371). She will give a talk explaining what RevBayes is and how to use it. We will then open the floor for an open discussion if you’d like to ask her any questions about the software.

Also,  I realize I missed the building a website day – I do have a presentation made on how to get that started, apologies – my March was really busy. I won’t be available tomorrow as my mom is in town but can do it next week if people are interested.

I’m out sick today but can people please sign up for next monday’s Matrix sorting at Ginny Switt’s science classes at Oak Hall? Ginny is providing lunch for people that are present all day.  I will send out a sign up throw email to get a list of people and times. I believe we need to be there by 8a until about 3p. I plan on being there all day.  We’ll be working with groups of 18 students at a time. Thanks!

@mackenzie-smith and @maryjane-hughes are interested in participating in the practice session next week. Lab group meets 11:45-12:35 in Carr 521.

Confirming our class tomorrow, regular time and place. See you then, Bruce

I don’t know if you guys have discussed this or not, but the attached flyer about a STEM fair organized by Alachua County schools landed in my inbox (as a parent). Although is too late to participate with a Museum pop-up, this might be something we want to keep on our radar.