This respository contains information for 2018 SEYI: Biodiversity high school internship program.
- 2018 Interns & their blogs
- Important Dates
- Lab Exercises
- R Exercises
- Special Presentations
- Reading & Discussion
- Resources
2018 is the sixth year that I've run the Stanfor Earth Young Investigators: Biodiversity Internship (the Internship formerly known as History of Life). The main foci of the previous five summers were a large body size data colleciton effort and small group, intern-driven research projects. This year I'm trying something completely different. In 2018 we are focuing primarially on data analysis, data vizualizations, and scientific writing: we will collectivley wirte a paper on the physiological and ecological drivers of body size evolution in Phanerozoic marine animals.
- Understand why animals have gotten bigger over time
- Learn why some groups follow the trend and others do not
- Determine if there are physiological, ecological, or evolutionary drivers to increasing size
By the end of the program, interns should be able to…
- critically read a scientific paper.
- outline and write a scientific paper.
- formulate and test a paleontological hypothesis.
- conduct basic statistical analyses.
- write R code to conduct analyses and generate figures.
- discuss the basic biology of major marine invertebrate fossils.
(links to blogs will be poste by 05 July 2018)
| Intern | High School | Blogs |
|---|---|---|
| Ameya Patkar | Lynbrook High School, San Jose | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Ashli Jain | Menlo School, Atherton | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Christopher Noll | San Mateo High School, San Mateo | Blogs |
| Isabella Villante | Capuchino High School, San Bruno | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Loc Buu | Yerba Buena High School, San Jose | Blog 1, [Blog 2] |
| Noah Rizk | Monta Vista High School, Cupertino | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Saket Bakshi | Leigh High School, San Jose | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Shannon Heh | Lynbrook High School, San Jose | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Sriram Sundararajan | Saint Francis High School, Mountain View | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
| Stephanie Chen | Balboa High School, San Francisco | Blog 1, Blog 2 |
Unless otherwise noted, the internship meets every Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday from 9 AM until 4 PM. We meet in GeoCorner 220 on the campus of Stanford University.
| Date | Trip/Due Date |
|---|---|
| 19 June 2018 | Orientation |
| 21 June 2018 | First full day of internship |
| 03 July 2018 |
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| 09-10 July 2018 | Overnight field Trip to Salinas Valley & Pinnacles National Park |
| 23 July 2018 | Half-day field trip with MSI noon to ~6 PM, please show up for the regular 9 AM start time |
| 27 July 2018 | Blog 2 due at 6 PM |
| 07 August 2018 | Practice Final presentations ~10 AM |
| 09 August 2018 | Final presentations & last day of internship |
| 10 August 2018 | Blog 3 due at 6 PM |
These exercises are meant to help you gain a better understanding of geological time; the diversity and biology of fossil organisms; and the scienctific practices of geologists and paleobiologists.
| Date | Exercise |
|---|---|
| 21 June 2018 AM | Geologic Timescale |
| 21 June 2018 PM | Cambrian Fossils |
| 26 June 2018 PM | Paleozoic Fossils |
| 28 June 2018 PM | Fossils Mollusks |
| 05 July 2018 PM | Fossils Echinoderms |
These R exercises were developed by Andrew Zaffos for the UW-Madison Paleobiology Course. I modified them for SEYI. Start your introduction to R here
| Date | Exercise |
|---|---|
| 25 June 2018 AM | Beginning R & Intermediate R |
| 26 June 2018 AM | Advanced R & Expert R |
| 26 June 2018 PM | Intro to PBDB |
| 02 July 2018 PM | Plotting in R |
| 05 July 2018 AM | Time series analysis wit paleoTS |
| 12 July 2018 AM | Logistic Regression |
This summer we will have several special presentations by Stanford (and maybe other) reserchers. The Goal of these presentations is to indtorduce you to the breadth of evolutinary, ecological, and geolgogical reserach that takes place at Stanford. This schedule is subject to change.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2018 AM | Don Lowe, Geolgoical Sci. | Precambrian sedimentary geology & geobiology |
| 31 July 2018 PM | Aaron Steelquist, Geolgoical Sci. | Geomorphology |
| 02 August 2018 AM | Erik Sperling & Aodhan Butler, Geolgoical Sci. | Cambrian Paleobiology |
We will read a combination of peer-reviewed scientific articles as well a book on body size that is geared towards a more genearl audience. The objectives of reading and discussing scientific articles and books are to teach you how to read a scientific paper, provide general background on body-size reserach, and give you an idea of analytical methods you may want to use in your own research. The book we are going to read is Why Size Matters by John Bonner.
| Date | Reading |
|---|---|
| 25 June 2018 AM | Knope et al. 2015 |
| 26 June 2018 AM | Heim et al. 2015 |
| 28 June 2018 AM | Bambach et al. 2002 |
| 02 July 2018 AM | McShea 1995 |
| 05 July 2018 PM | Bonner Chapters 1 & 2 |
| 12 July 2018 AM | Bonner Chapter 3 |
| 17 July 2018 AM | Hunt 2007 |
| 19 July 2018 AM | Bonner Chapter 4 |
| 26 July 2018 AM | Zaffos et al. 2017 |
| 31 July 2018 AM | Bonner Chpater 5 |
| 02 August 2018 AM | Sibert & Norris 2016 |
| 07 August 2018 AM | Bonner Chapter 6 & 7 |