tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53716826532980886002024-03-13T14:27:03.361-07:00Notes for my PhD (getting technical!)Bexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-28497856190172595232013-10-09T08:14:00.003-07:002013-10-09T08:14:48.216-07:00Some handy advice from oxford university on fonts used in Poster making...<br />
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What font size should I use when I am creating an academic poster?</div>
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There are two criteria for text on a poster:</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Text on the poster must be readable from a distance of a metre or so</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Restrict your word count to only a few hundred words. I recommend 600-800</li>
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Taking those together, I suggest the following font sizes are a good starting point:</div>
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Titles 72+<br />Sub-titles 54+<br />Text 30+<br />Sub-text 20+</div>
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Obviously the actual font used can effect this. I tend to keep to a standard sans-serif font such as Arial or Helvetica (or my favourite Trebuchet). The values are, as I say, a starting point and will need to be changed (usually increased) to suit the design of the poster.</div>
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<a href="https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/itlp/2009/10/21/font-sizes-for-academic-posters/">https://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/itlp/2009/10/21/font-sizes-for-academic-posters/</a>Bexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-68044765071564593022012-10-16T04:53:00.002-07:002012-10-16T04:54:22.532-07:00Study area<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-35261172771608498702012-10-16T04:52:00.001-07:002012-10-16T04:52:16.337-07:00NE Atlantic Semount depthsImportant information for working out which oceanogrphic factors might influence larval transport. Depths are measures in metres below sealevel:<br />
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 635px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 5944; mso-width-source: userset; width: 157pt;" width="209"></col><col style="mso-width-alt: 2531; mso-width-source: userset; width: 67pt;" width="89"></col><col style="mso-width-alt: 9585; mso-width-source: userset; width: 253pt;" width="337"></col><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt; width: 157pt;" width="209"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Feature</span></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; width: 67pt;" width="89"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Summit (m)</span></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; width: 253pt;" width="337"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Base (m)</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anton Dohrn Seamount</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">521</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 2100</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bill Bailey Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">90</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1000</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Faeroe Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">70</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1000 a couple of 1500 basins</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">George Bligh Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">80</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1000 RH Basin 1500 RT</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hatton Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">500</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1000 RH Basin 2500 N side</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hebrides Terrace Seamount</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">100</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1500 E side, 2200 W side</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lousy Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">70</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1350</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rockall Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">0</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1000 ledge, 2500 RT deepest, 1000 RH Basin</span></td></tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;"><td height="20" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 15pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rosemary Bank</span></td><td align="right" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">321</span></td><td class="xl63" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1550 + moat</span></td></tr>
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Bexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-2585391360320057092012-10-16T04:47:00.002-07:002012-10-16T04:47:58.501-07:00Oceanography glossaryBaroclinic - a stratified fluid where the gradients of pressure and density are misalligned. Instability of broclinicity results in vorticity (eddies).<br />
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Barotropic -a stratified fluid where the gradients of pressure and density are alligned ( isobaric surfaces are also isopycnal and isothermal, baroclinic vector is zero and motions of fluid are strongly constrained)<br />
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Geostrophy -currents flowing parallel to isobars as a result of the coriolis force balancing the pressure gradient force. A geostrophic flow may be barotropic or baroclinic.<br />
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Halocline - the boundary (area of steepest gradient) separating two watermasses of different salinity in a stratified fluid<br />
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Internal waves - gravity waves occuring along pycnoclines. Can vary vastly in amplitude and frquency. Can be heightened by the lower water mass interfacing with rough topography.<br />
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Kelvin-Helmholtz instability - breaking internal waves, these occur when the Richardson number (the ratio of potential to kinetic energy) of a pycnocline drops below 0.25 (i.e. where the kinetic energy is high enough to break surface tension)<br />
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Pycnocline - the boundary (area of steepest gradient) separating two water masses of different density in a stratified fluid (may also be a halocline and/or thermocline)<br />
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Permanent Pycnocline - the boundary (area of steepest stable density gradient) which separates the upper waters where surface mixing occurs, and lower waters. This can restrict transport of nutrients between upper and lower layers and can inhibit the vertical migration of plankton. This can be diffused by shear produced turbulence, creating areas of upwelling.<br />
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Thermocline - the boundary (area of steepest gradient) separating two water masses of different temperatures in a stratified fluidBexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-5410870757284003212012-10-09T02:17:00.000-07:002012-10-09T02:17:23.358-07:00Seamounts - Online ResourcesMight be worth noting, in case a source of data or a suppository for data post PhD<br />
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SeamountsOnline<br />
<a href="http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/">http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/</a>#<br />
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Adata portal for species record locations on seamounts workd wide. In UK/Irish waters they have data for:<br />
Anton Dohrn<br />
Rosemary bank<br />
Hatton Bank<br />
George Bligh Bank<br />
Lousy Bank<br />
Bill Bailey's Bank<br />
All species record seem to be <em>Lophelia pertusa</em> or fish. Some unknow scleractinians. Most records taken from the literature, and many from the 18th centuary. Needs updating!<br />
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SeamountCatalogue<br />
<a href="http://earthref.org/SC/#top">http://earthref.org/SC/#top</a><br />
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A flash map of the worlds seas with physical data including multibeam compiled for 1800 seamounts. <br />
Records in this region:<br />
Anton Dohrn - no multibeam<br />
Hebrides Terrace - no multibeam<br />
George Bligh Bank -1 multibeam file 2002<br />
Bill Bailey's Bank - 2 multibeam files 1990, 2002<br />
Lousy Bank - 2 multibeam files 1990, 2002 <br />
Faeroe Bank - 3 multibeam files 1990, 2002, 2002<br />
Rosemary bank - 32 multibeam files 2003 (1x 2002)<br />
(All in .mb format)<br />
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Bexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933243237623328459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371682653298088600.post-68831387445152336772012-10-08T04:14:00.001-07:002012-10-08T04:14:11.129-07:00Connectivity definitionsThis is skimmed straight from the <a href="http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/Subpages/Lab_definitions.html">WHOI benthic ecology and nearshore oceanography lab website</a> and is rather helpful for straightening out definitions of phrases, thanks to them:<br />
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<strong>Larval transport</strong></div>
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"Larval transport is defined as the horizontal translocation of a larva between points x1,y1 and x2,y2, where x and y are<br />horizontal axes, say, perpendicular and parallel to the coastline. In larval transport, only the spatial dimensions matter.<br />Although this definition ignores the vertical axis (z) for simplicity, this dimension is critical for larval transport"</div>
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(<a href="http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/PDFdocs/Pineda_Hare_Sponaugle_2007.pdf">See Pineda, Hare and Sponaugle, 2007</a>) </div>
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<strong>Larval dispersal</strong></div>
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"Larval dispersal refers to the spread of larvae from a spawning source to a settlement site. This definition is consistent with the terrestrial literature (natal dispersal in Clobert et al., 2001; Begon et al., 2006) that describes seed dispersal as the probability density function of the number of seeds versus distance from the adult source (i.e., the dispersal kernel) (Nathan and Muller-Landau, 2000; see Gerrodette, 1981, for a rare marine example)." </div>
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(See Scheltema, 1986 and <a href="http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/PDFdocs/Pineda_Hare_Sponaugle_2007.pdf">Pineda, Hare and Sponaugle, 2007</a>) </div>
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<strong>Population connectivity</strong></div>
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"Population connectivity has been defined as the exchange of individuals among geographically separated subpopulations...By this definition, if the exchange is measured at the time of settlement, connectivity is essentially larval dispersal from one population to another"</div>
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(See Cowen et al., 2007, Oceanography, and <a href="http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/PDFdocs/Pineda_Hare_Sponaugle_2007.pdf">Pineda, Hare and Sponaugle, 2007</a>)</div>
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<strong>Reproductive population connectivity </strong></div>
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The dispersal of individuals among subpopulations that survive to reproduce (see <a href="http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/PDFdocs/Pineda_Hare_Sponaugle_2007.pdf">Pineda, Hare and Sponaugle, 2007</a>)</div>
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