SlothSquad

Team Research Questions & Goals

Research Questions

• What environmental variables influence the range of the sloths?
• How do the different species differ in their ranges?
• How have sloth ranges changed over time and how will they continue to change in the future?

Goals

• Read and write R scripts to analyze spatial data
• Understand the basics of machine learning
• Understand how ecological concepts relate to programming

Calendar

Date	Topics	Materials
Week 27
April 30	Update Maxent modeling script Response curves Past climate data ⏪ Projecting backwards in time	List of projections to make Response curves - Markdown Turn back time - climate data Projecting backwards instructions
May 2	Finishing touches on code Save plots for presentations	List of figures for presentations
Week 28
May 7	Louise is visiting! Work on list of figures Come up with a title Work on poster and/or 15-minute presentation	List of figures for presentations Text and figures for poster - Google Doc SlothSquad poster SlothSquad 15 minute presentation
May 9	Presentation Skills / Improv Workshop
Week 29
May 14	Work on poster! Talk about posters	Sample posters folder Poster session video SlothSquad 5 minute presentation
May 16	Work on poster Install and test Zoom	Text and figures for poster - Google Doc SlothSquad poster Zoom download
Week 30
May 21	[Cecina in D.C. for conference] Work on poster
May 23	Edit abstract SRMP poster ready for printing! [6:30 pm]
Week 31
May 28	Practice presentation!
May 30	Final edits to presentations
Week 32
June 4	No internship session today
June 6	SRMP Colloquium, Poster, and 5-minute Presentation
June 9	15-minute presentation 🎓 Brown Scholar Intern Graduation! 🎉

Resources

GitHub

• Working on Forks 🍴
• Working with Branches 🎋 : pair programming & pull requests

Coding

• Debugging workflow
• Terminal command cheatsheet

Calendar

• Past calendar