Monday, May 31, 2021

Summer 2021 Plans

Here are my summer plans... this is like posting New Year's Resolutions 

  • Submit a manuscript on weevil biogeography (done - took 750 lines of code)
  • Submit an opening essay on a virtual volume on Neotropical ornithology (needs to be finished ASAP - read all the papers - a dozen or so - write a collective intro)
  • Submit a revised manuscript of the clay caterpillar paper - rejected from Urban Ecosystems 
  • Submit a manuscript to Ecological Applications on our grassland research (lots of authors - about 80% done) 
  • Analyze the prescribed burning bird stuff (will require the fanciest of statistics - distance, random effects (site), detection probabilities)
  • Submit a manuscript to Northeastern Naturalist on prescribed burning and the effects on pollinators - only yellow pans used so not a very complete paper but still - cool stuff)
  • Add State Game Land 300 to the survey list (has rattlesnakes and is burned)
  • Apply for all permits needed to catch birds 
  • Deploy red, blue, yellow, white pollinator pans in burned and unburned game lands (ideally 30-40 total samples in each at a bunch of game lands)
  • Get weevil DNA barcoding protocols finalized 
  • Get the Ecology course prepped for Fall 
  • Get a data analytics certificate proposal together 
  • Get a trip to Ecuador organized
  • Check out Fulbright\Smithsonian sabbatical support 
  • Apply for Full Professor
  • Keep my mind in one piece 

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