Seems like our {appeears} #rstats package made it to the last RViews top 40 new CRAN packages round up.

rviews.rstudio.com/2023/06/28/may…

Happy to learn that the USGS Data Science team found our {snotelr} #rstats package helpful.

Also, check out their excellent tutorial on how to jazz up your ggplots!

waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/ggplot-ja…

A new Zindi #machinelearning competition by acre africa, CGIAR and IFPRI is live. Win $10K for automating crop disturbance claim verification, to make smallholder farmers insurable.

BlueGreen Labs was happy to provide back-end #datascience .

zindi.africa/competitions/c…

BlueGreen Labs is happy to support the NWO OTP project of Qinwen Fan at the TU Delft on a plant-powered #phenocam . The project will use plant-based power, an imaging unit and wireless connectivity for image based #EnvironmentalMonitoring .

Took a wee while but the constructive reviewer comments on this work feel good. Nice #ornithology work by an excellent team moving forward. 🥳

The #trackseabirds team is back in action this week! 10 great shearwaters tagged yesterday- including the first GPS tags we’ve ever put out! Excited to get some new data! #birds #seabirds #Research

#JobAlert We have another cool open position on using ESA Earth Observation and #MachineLearning to forecast #drought impacts and crop #yield . For details see:
climers.geo.tuwien.ac.at/climers/news/1…
Feel free to RT!

Artificial light at night has variable and complex impacts on plants and animals, disrupting entire ecosystems, according to a new #ScienceReview . scim.ag/37k #LightPollution

UPDATE on the BTO recovery. Nestling in #Thetford forest in 2022 now in Kasterlee Belgium. 400km dispersal or still migrating? After ringing 2000 #nightjar finally a recapture of longtime collaborator Greg Conway. Couldn’t be better! 🥳

Teaching a workshop best practices in citizen science ( #CitSci ) using The Zooniverse! Looking forward to teaching scientists of @RBINSmuseum & The AfricaMuseum.

I am sitting down this week with mentees to discuss papers...brainstorming a bit about tools to help them articulate and address factors slowing progress.

(with apologies to the soil texture triangle)

The {appeears} #rstats package is on CRAN. The package provides easy access to the AppEEARS API directly from R.

ORNL DAAC NASAEarthdata

cran.r-project.org/web/packages/a…

Cliff Swallow peeking out of its nest made from hundreds of mud pellets. Photographed from a kayak.

One of the things I learned in undergrad (probably from Scott Forbes🌎🔥) is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. To prove a species is not extinct, however noble the goal, you need irrefutable proof. Sadly, the results herein do not pass bar.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…