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Contents 1 2009-07-25 2 2009-07-21 3 2007-07-20 4 2007-07-17 5 2009-07-15 6 2009-07-12 7 2009-06-26 8 2009-06-25 9 2009-06-22 10 2009-06-20 11 2009-06-19 12 2009-06-18 13 2009-06-17 14 2009-06-16 15 2009-06-14 16 2009-06-13 17 2009-06-12

2009-07-25

• Some publicity!:
  • New Straits Times
  • New Straits Times (editorial)
  • There was an (Sabah) Daily Express article about our visit to Maliau
  • There was an (Sabah) Daily Express article about our visit to Deramakot

2009-07-21

• a group flickr is now set up! ID: biodivborneo09 yahoo ID: [email protected] password: the usual one

2007-07-20

• Plan for the next three days:
  • 20 July
    • 09:00 Formal Harvard evaluations
    • 09:30 Lecture: Biodiversity informatics (Cam)
  • 21 July
    • 17:00 Lecture: Elephant phylogeography (Benoit Goosens)
  • 22 July
    • You are responsible for an early lunch
    • 12:30 Be ready to leave for UMS. Wear nice clothes please
    • 13:30 Presentations begin
    • 15:00 Teabreak
    • 15:30 Presentations
    • 17:00 Transfer to Atmosphere
• Your work on the wiki for the next two and a half days:
  • Project 3 reports
  • Personal page
  • Focal taxon page(s)
  • Your blogs
  • Site observations
  • General photos
• Asian students: please check the level you have been registered for (Grad or Undergrad) to make sure it is correct.
• From Ross: When you have the internet, check out the 'biodiversity of borneo' slide show on the New York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/20/travel/0420-borneo_index.html

2007-07-17

• Please add to the new page for Photos of Gaya.
• Put up some coral pics.

2009-07-15

• Gibbon song from Gunung Palung: OGG or MP3.

2009-07-12

• See notes on Harvard e-resources
• Veg map of Maliau and report

2009-06-26

• This is the website and email address from Infinity Sea Tribe: http://www.infinityseatribe.com and [email protected]
• Laundry leaves today at 09:00, back tomorrow afternoon.
• This afternoon at ca. 15:30, we'll be taking out a voluntary trip to see a different reef (more exposed).
• Project reports are (almost) all reviewd. Please make your final corrections today or in KK. Due by Sunday night.
• See notes on Argumentation

2009-06-25

• More papers from Ross on fern life cycles and the consequences of biodiversity decline in tropical rivers. The fern paper is a very dense review but the material is interesting and contains a fair background on the more interesting aspects of their life histories.

2009-06-22

• Uploaded some R tutorials: [1] (data), [2] (scripts); and a quick reference sheet.

2009-06-20

• I have uploaded a static version of this wiki to http://phylodiversity.net/bb09/ - you can point your family and friends to it.
• Please check the Project report template. Note that we have removed the Closing argument section, which I have moved to a special page (named Lambir plant project (argument)). Don't worry about this page now, we'll talk about this on the island.

2009-06-19

• Peer review (see notes):
  • Mushrooms reviews Lianas
  • Lianas reviews Iban
  • Iban reviews butterflies
  • Butterflies reviews geckos
  • Geckos reviews water striders
  • Water striders reviews Nepenthes
  • Nepenthes reviews mushrooms

2009-06-18

• Tonight there will be no lecture, but I will make some logistics announcements at dinner at 19:00. The important thing is that you pack your bags before the presentations tomorrow, which will be at 09:00. Bring your packed bags to the main hall before 09:00.
• This is your last chance to request equipment you might want on Gaya, Kinabalu and Deramakot.
• I must photocopy your passports and tickets, if you only got 30 day visas.
• Laundry to be dropped at 8:00 tomorrow. See Schedule for updates.

2009-06-17

• For Le, and anyone else interested, Ross uploaded papers on the fungi of Borneo and fungi in dipterocarp leaf litter.
• Cam uploaded the lambir plot mapand as a JPEG.
• Added Malay and Glossary pages. Please add to these as you find something you want to share.
• Added notes on Focal taxon exercise.
• The moths of Borneo.

2009-06-16

• Posted some moss info ([3], [4]) and some fern info ([5], [6]).
• Posted Lambir plot data.

2009-06-14

• Today is a packed lunch day. Pick it up from the canteen after 10:00.
• We will take in a load of laundry tomorrow. Please have it ready by breakfast.
• Please, let's leave our shoes in a tidier arrangement outside the main office. Let's put them on the floor and bottom two steps, on the left. Thanks.
• Please adhere to the rules about: no one alone in the forest, and signing out.
• (Lots of rules today!) Please sign out everything you take from the gear boxes, and remember, no library books leave the main room.
• Finished plant characters matrix.

2009-06-13

• Data file for lecture/lab here.

2009-06-12

• Uploaded HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL Student Handbook and Guide to Computing 2009.
• Soil arthropod data here (right click, `Save as').
• Uploaded R packages for the book Data Analysis and Graphics with R (windows and mac).