R by the Sea - Japan edition
QMEL lab members Dr. Easton White and Drew Villeneuve joined Faith Frings (also UNH) and Emily Malcom-White (Middlebury College) to deliver a R statistics workshop in Sendai, Japan. The workshop was put on by the Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC) and the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Tohoku University. The workshop included participants from 15 countries all studying or working at the university.
The primary workshop host was Dr. Cheryl Ames of Tohoku University.
One of the workshop participants was PhD student, Bryson Torgovitsky, is also an UNH alumn who graduated in 2023 with a MS in marine biology. He headed to Tohoku University to complete his PhD with Dr. Ames.
Over five days, workshop participants learned the basics of R/RStudio and Reproducible Science. The applied these tools to common publically-available datasets and ended the workshop by using data from their own research.
All the course materials are freely available at https://quantmarineecolab.github.io/r-by-the-sea-jp/. The course was partly inspired by our R by the Sea course, which we are offering again in summer 2025. In this course, students learn similar R programming tools while also collecting data in residence at the Shoals Marine Lab.
The R by the Sea logo above was designed by Emily Malcolm-White and incorporates “The Great Wave”.
