AN INTRODUCTION TO META-ANALYSIS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY July 6-10, 2009 A 5-day summer course sponsored by and held at the U.S. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent - www.nescent.org) in Durham, North Carolina. OVERVIEW: The course will cover what meta-analysis is, where it comes from, some examples of how it has been used in ecology and evolution, and its major strengths and weaknesses as a tool for the quantitative summary of research results.
Students will be introduced to issues and methods for gathering data from the scientific literature and how to organize those data for analysis. Students will be encouraged to produce a preliminary meta-analysis on their own data, and will learn how to interpret, evaluate and critique the results. INSTRUCTORS * Jessica Gurevitch, Course Organizer, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University * Marc Lajeunesse, Instructor, NESCent postdoctoral fellow * Kerrie Mengersen, Instructor, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 31, 2009. For more information, and to apply, please see: http://www.nescent.org/courses/2009/meta_analysis/ INQUIRIES Jory Weintraub, NESCent Education and Outreach Program Manager, at [email protected], or 919-668-4578.
