gndaskalova
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4 years ago Hey @schneidereits
Great start of your dissertation work!
I have just uploaded my feedback and comments on your pitch document - some are things for you to think about now, others are more relevant for your work later on. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about my comments or if there is anything you'd like to discuss further. I am away from Edinburgh until mid-Feb, but I am happy to meet over Skype sometime if you'd like.
Many of my comments relate to writing which is a skill we are all continuously crafting - I personally am very into reading books about writing and have found that they have helped my own writing, so I'd encourage you to check some of those out, my two faves are the ones I showed in ConSci. The Stephen Heard one you can borrow from my desk up in Crew (the attic, the desk on the right just as you walk in, the one with all the plants) if you want. I am also enjoying Ray Bradburry's Zen in the art of writing (this is a non scientific one).
Other answers to things I noticed across your repo:
The Arctic DEM can be accessed through GEE. For anything related to Sam’s dissertation, you can contact Sam at kellerhalssamuel@gmail.com .
Regarding the pre-registration, you don’t need to have all the data together and such to start working on it, though there are parts that relate to sample size and such, but in general, there are parts you can fill in before you have the data.
Nice work progressing with your dissertation! Hope you enjoy the holidays and come back rejuvenated and inspired! I will let you know when I can do some data-related things, but in general I wouldn't worry about getting data asap as I think there are other tasks you can work on in the meantime too (and it's Christmas too soon and all that).
Another side note, if you are interested, the 2020 Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference will be announced sometime soon (previous one https://scottishecologyconference.wordpress.com/) and I think it'll be towards the end of March/April and that can be a nice goal in terms of you presenting a poster/talk if you want. It's a super friendly conference with different types of talks (3 minute ones, 5 minutes, 10 minutes), also posters, and it can be a helpful experience for you.
I made it out of my dentist appointment all fine, but I have to go back again for round 2, my falling on my teeth from my bike did leave some lasting impacts, I'm getting a brace that has to stay there for a whole year! But at least it's only on the back of my teeth not the front and the dentist said it'll be very thing. It's like I am reliving my early childhood all over again!
Have a nice day, Gergana
schneidereits
Hi @gndaskalova & @IslaMS,
I uploaded a streamlined version of the pitch document. Currently, it's saved as a .docx, but I can also put it up as a .txt if either of you would prefer that.
Still am working around on it a bit and will try to incorporate some of the feedback from today's presentation, ie adding some more background context on spectra, what they are and how spectral diversity is calculated. Also will generalize and refrase question one.
Let me know if there's anything I should add/change and whether it should also include a .txt version into the repo.
Good luck Today Gergana, and I hope you have a nice weekend!