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March 2 - 8, 2025

Mar

QCNR Mid-Morning Mingle

Social/Networking

Eat a free pastry, sip a free hot beverage, and get some face-to-face with your QCNR community. Please bring your own mug if possible!

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Natural Resources Building | More Info

Mar

Quarterly CONNECTIONS : Balancing Outdoor Lighting for Public Safety & Night Sky Protection

Conference/Seminar

From the Colorado Plateau Dark Sky Cooperative: Balancing Outdoor Lighting for Public Safety & Night Sky Protection

In this session, we will be discussing how to integrate public safety concerns with responsible outdoor lighting design to ensure safer, healthier, and more sustainable communities. Our guest speakers include: Art Hushen, founder of the National Institute of Crime Prevention (NICP, Inc.) and proponent for using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to ensure communities enjoy safe, attractive spaces at night. Dr. Bryan Boulanger, the Endowed Chair for the Kokosing Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ohio Northern University, will provide insights on some innovative tools and a practical approach to creating lightscapes that are compatible with night sky protection.

The Quarterly CONNECTIONS include a series of interactive virtual meetings focused on ways to minimize light pollution and support the preservation and promotion of naturally dark night skies. Registration is free but required in advance for each Quarterly CONNECTIONS session: https://extension.usu.edu/iort/cp-darkskies/quarterly-connections.

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Mar

Data Science Workshops with the Ecology Center

Workshop/Training

This is a free skill sharing program though the Ecology Center that lets grad students learn immediately applicable techniques from their peers. All students from all departments are welcome! Tell your friends! This semester, we are pleased to offer 5 new workshops in addition to our most popular classics. Please review the schedule below and sign up for the workshops that you would like to attend via the event URL.

Jan 16 - Data management with data.table - Michael Stemkovski
Jan 23 - Iteration with loops/apply - Dani Berger
Jan 30 - Writing custom functions - Michael Stemkovski
Feb 6 - Script organization with Rmarkdown - Annie Schiffer *
Feb 13 - Visualizations with ggplot - Soren Struckman
Feb 20 - Working with words using regex & stringr - Michael Stemkovski *
Feb 27 - Wrangling spatial data - Dani Berger
Mar 6 - Plotting maps - Maria Stahl
Mar 20 - Demystifying R model formulas - Michael Stemkovski
Mar 27 - Generalized linear mixed models - Kelvyn Bladen *
Apr 3 - Bayesian models with RStan/BRMS (NR 202) - Annie Schiffer *
Apr 10 - Machine learning methods - Kelvyn Bladen
Apr 17 - Working with databases using SQL - Soren Struckman *
* brand new workshop