MacKay Minutes 2016/10/27

MacKay website, and minutes, and Working Report

How did we do on our todo list?

• Andy:
  • Continue with TSVD analysis; finalize yearly model
  • check out residuals

• Madison:
  • Continue with GIS strategy
  • Schedule meeting with R,G, and C.

• Laura:
  • Continue with linear regressions
  • Check residuals, and use backward-step-wise regression
  • I asked Laura to check into another grant opportunity...

• Steve:
  • Continue working on animation strategy

Moving forward

• We need to prepare for the meeting with RG&C.
• Why not unwrap the data? Rather than consider it "by year", let's consider it a time series with occasional spikes, and see what falls out? We might ramp the data up from "first appearance" to "becoming common" dates, using a logistic or the like. Then we can run a time series of temperatures over the data, to see which month/period pops out.

In the News

• World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns: Living Planet Index shows vertebrate populations are set to decline by 67% on 1970 levels unless urgent action is taken to reduce humanity’s impact

Todo for next week

• All:

• Andy:

• Madison:

• Laura:

• Steve:

Next meeting

Thursday, 11/3, 4:15 with RGC?