Choosing a MSc or PhD supervisor
In an ideal world, you find your passion and get a scholarship to study it with a leading expert in the field. I had friends who did unexciting PhDs and then switched to their passion, and never looked back. A PhD is foremost, training in science. Keeping this in...
A glossary of terminology used in marine biology, ecology, and geology
This glossary was developed as a collaboration between the scientists of the GEOHAB (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) and WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species) communities. It was published online on WoRMS from 2010 and comments by users led to...
Tips for preparing for a PhD viva voce or defence
The process for examining and approving a PhD varies a lot between countries. In continental Europe, science theses are a set of papers copied into a single volume with appropriate introductory and synthesis chapters. Some universities have internal and external...
Tips on ‘Species Distribution Modelling’ using MaxEnt
By Dinusha Jayathilake, University of Auckland What is Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)? SDM is a numerical tool to predict the potential distribution of a given species or a set of species by combining the occurrence records and environmental variables layers...
Stress: dealing with it
A recurring ‘issue’ amongst under-graduate, post-graduate students and post-docs is dealing with stress. Perhaps the most useful short course I ever did was in stress management. I wish I had done it years earlier. This post is not about the good stress; the stress...Subscribe by Email
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