Tara Ivanochko

Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science

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Produktbeschreibung

A student's guide to setting up and conducting environmental research projects, including how to analyze data and write research proposals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781108437578
• ISBN-10: 1108437575
• Artikelnr.: 60478032

Autorenporträt

Tara Ivanochko is a senior instructor and Director of Environmental Science in the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science department at the University of British Columbia. She is also Academic Director of the UBC Sustainability Initiative, and her research focuses on marine paleoclimatology and the reconstruction of environmental systems on timescales from 10,000 to 100,000 years. A passionate educator, Dr Ivanochko has developed a multi-year curriculum to actively engage undergraduate students in authentic scientific experiences, and has incorporated learning portfolios and community-based learning into the Environmental Science degree.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ralph Keeling
Introduction
1. Reading papers to find the science, not the answer
2. Communicating science visually
3. Matching scales and processes
4. Collecting environmental data
5. Writing research questions
6. Aligning your question with your data
7. Working with environmental data
8. Isolating individual signals from a composite dataset
9. Differentiating signals from noise
10. Characterizing your data
11. Comparing datasets
12. Developing simple environmental models
13. Writing a science proposal
14. Writing an abstract
Appendix: Working in Excel
Glossary
Epilogue
Index.