There are a few items to take care of now that you have joined the lab.
- Read the Lab Working Agreement.
- If you're a PhD student, check out Malin's Notes on a PhD Degree (also has some useful postdoc-related resources)
- Read the Lab Data Management Policy.
- Make a GitHub account if you don't have one already.
- Ask Roy to help you join our Google Spaces (General, Science Communication, DEIB, Climate Biogeography, Genomics, Random, Lab Meeting, Santa Cruz, Computing & Data, Conferences, Lab Website, Lab Space, and Help Coding) for messaging (a Slack equivalent), our shared google calendar, our Github Organization, and the GCRG mailing list ([email protected]) (talk to Roy Roberts).
- Connect to the Global Change Research Group Shared Google Drive by asking Roy to share it with you.
- Add your information to the GCRG Members google document (in the GCRG Google Drive folder)/
- Send your contact information, photo, and web address to Roy to add to our lab webpage here. If you don't have webpage, they can help you make a page on our website.
- Write an Independent Development Plan, copy your IDP goals to a new google document in Shared Drive/How_we_work/Group_member_goals/ (see the template in the directory), share it with Malin, and set up a time to discuss it.
- If you will be doing lab work, complete the safety training here.
- Get your keys and ID card through UCSC (talk with the EEB Grad Program Coordinator and/or the EEB Assistant Administrator). Add CBB 139 for the GCRG Molecular lab, a ley for the CBB analytical labs if you're doing pop gen lab work, and a key for the CBB showers if you want.
- If you're at UCSC, also check out the EEB resource guide
- Download and begin to maintain a reference manager. We recommend Zotero, as the free software interfaces well with both Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Download Zotero and browser plugin here.
- Block out our weekly lab meeting time on your calendar, and when you're ready, sign up for a lab meeting. The easiest way to find the schedule for lab meetings is to look at the GCRG Lab Meeting space under Tasks and the linked google file should pop up.
- If you're a postdoc, grad student, or staff, talk to Malin if you need an external monitor, harddrive for backups, or external keyboard or trackpad. We can usually provide what you need (funding-dependent).
- Read through the relevant guides and tutorials below, depending on your experience.
- Join the CBB Coffee Club (2nd floor kitchen) if that's relevant to you.
- Spend some time exploring the resources on the GCRG Google Drive and Github Organization. Ask questions about anything that's confusing so that we can make it easier for others in the future!
There are several computing resources available to serve your research computing needs.
Rutgers
| owner | name | partition name | number of cores | memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEBS | annotate2 | - | 112 + 8200 GPU | 1T |
| SEBS | annotate-win | - | 18 | 500G |
| OARC-Pinsky node 1 (hal0181) | amarel | p_mlp195 | 40 | 192G |
| OARC-Pinsky node 2 (hal0186) | amarel | p_mlp195 | 40 | 192G |
| OARC-Ecology node 1 (hal0280) | amarel | p_deenr_1 | 64 | 256G |
| OARC-Ecology node 2 (hal0281) | amarel | p_deenr_1 | 64 | 256G |
| OARC-EOAS node (hal0170) | amarel | p_eoas_1 | 40 | 192G |
| OARC | amarel | main | ~19,000 | ? |
| RDII | caliburn | - | 256 | 768G |
UCSC
| owner | name | partition name | number of cores | memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBSci | Hummingbird | - | 24-64/node | up to 256GB/node |
| Astrophysics | Lux | - | many | less |
| PBSci | Bishop [archived data] | GlobalChange-bio/ [10TB] | NA | NA |
Various lab members have differing levels of experience with each of these servers and can help you figure out what is best for your analysis. Amarel is a condo system. You only have to wait in line with other GCRG folks for the Pinsky node, you have to wait in line with other Ecology folks for the DEENR node, you have to wait in line with all of Rutgers folks for the other nodes.
UCSC
| Name | Listserv email | Contact Name | Contact email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Change Research Group | [email protected] | Ryan Snow | |
| Inst. for Marine Science | [email protected] | ||
| EEB general announcements | [email protected] | Eve Chudnow | [email protected] |
| Fisheries Collaborative Program | [email protected] | Liane Bauer | [email protected] |
- Visit here for the full list of Rutgers Marine-related listservs
- Visit here for a broad list of Rutgers listservs
- Research practice
- The Openscapes Lesson Series: describes an approach to collaborative, reproducible science and culture within teams that underlies much of our group's approach as well
- GCRG Cookbook is a resource of how to's put together by lab members to help you past the occasional obstacle that we all seem to run into.
- How to maintain a research notebook
- Career development and time management
- The NCFDD has very good advice on time management, developmenta, and more. Activate your account through UCSC here, including resources for graduate students.
- Our internal guide to career exploration through informational interviews here
- Command line tutorial and more help with the command line (Udacity)
- R
- Learn R with swirl
- R For Data Science (a very useful introduction to R)
- Git and GitHub
- Udacity Git and GitHub tutorial
- Happy Git with R tutorial (outside tutorial)
- Field work
- National Association of Marine Laboratories Best Practices in Field Safety and Accessibility
- Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions
- Resources for scientific writing
- Our informal guide to getting ready to publish, including a focus on publishing in society-owned and non-profit journals
- The UCSC Writing Center
- Schimel, J. 2012. Writing science: how to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded. Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Turbek, S. P., Chock, T. M., Donahue, K., Havrilla, C. A., Oliverio, A. M., Polutchko, S. K., … Vimercati, L. (2016). Scientific Writing Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Undergraduate Writing in the Biological Sciences. Ecology 101, (October), 417–426. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1258
- Gopen, G., & Swan, J. (1990). The Science of Scientific Writing. American Scientist.
- Lafferty 2021 Writing a scientific paper, step by painful step
- Our Guide to publishing a scientific paper
- How to read a scientific paper, Science
- How to (seriously) read a scientific paper, Science
- Zotero Reference Manager Tutorial
- Authorship criteria
- Data visualization resources
- Tufte books
- William Cleveland, The Elements of Graphing Data
- Scientific presentation tips
- http://blog.ted.com/10-tips-for-better-slide-decks/
- How Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes (booklet in the lab)
- Will Ratcliffe: https://twitter.com/wc_ratcliff/status/949315012472070145
- Clip art
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00832-5
- Remember you're telling a story
- Start where your audience is, explain why it matters/they should care
- build suspense, and then resolve it
- Build with simple pieces
- You know much more than your audience. Recognize they can only absorb information so fast.
- Layer in points and pieces as you say them
- Explain all parts of a figure
- Less is more
- Few words, more pictures. Slides uncluttered
- Less talking: say it clearly and move on
- Practice, practice, practice
- Networking and collaboration skills
- Resources from the ESA Early Career Ecologists section, including webinars
- The Project Biodiversify group is working to make biology/ecology more inclusive.
- Lab notes on power in academia: http://sophiatintori.com/zine.html