Dear all,
1) Create and customize your blog. Be sure to take advantage of the help links if you are confused.
2) Edit your “Hello world” post, in which you:
a. Introduce yourself: your major, career goals, why you’re taking this course, and what you hope most to learn.
b. Comment on the assigned article. You might consider how it affects your sense of “everything is everywhere, the environment selects,” and you might define what a species-area curve (or a plot of beta-diversity) might look like for Prochlorococcus. Most importantly, what about this article appealed to you, what is confusing, and what questions did it raise for you?
(for reference, the lectures are posted on the blog).
3) Remember that Chuck Traverse will be giving a guest lecture. I’ll upload the PPT as soon as I can for everyone’s reference.
PS: Several of you noticed that some of the old blogs had been archived so you couldn’t see them (although I, as admin, could). I’ve now “unarchived” a few from 2010 for your reference, and will consider opening few others for your reference. Their names are now changed with the suffix “-2010″ to denote prior students.
PPS: Sorry that some of you had your blogs marked as spam. This was a result of new settings of this site that were unfamiliar to me. I think I’ve prevented further occurrences, but if you encounter trouble, email me directly.
Cheers
VC