[ECOLOG-L] Baited camera abundance - video or stills?

2018-07-11 Thread Katharine Miller
Hello We are planning to use baited cameras to estimate the abundance of juvenile Pacific cod. I am looking at two film options: 1) Using an underwater camera with 4K video capability (e.g. Olympus tg-5) and extracting stills from the video at set increments during post processing. 2)

[ECOLOG-L] Measuring lamprey

2014-11-25 Thread Katharine Miller
I am doing research on the Yukon River and we are catching a large number of juv. lamprey. We would like to be able to quickly measure a subsample (~50 per tow) to get a length distribution - but these guys are really hard to measure! We've tried using soda water to anesthetize them, but

Re: [ECOLOG-L] satellite phones for Alaska

2013-08-02 Thread Katharine Miller
I work with the NMFS out of Juneau. We use Iridium sat phones all over AK, from the Arctic to SE, and I have personally used Iridium when transiting the inside passage on my sailboat. How well they work depends a lot on where you are and what you are planning to use the phone for. Sat phones

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Advice for 36 year old trying to get into M.S. program

2013-02-01 Thread Katharine Miller
As a non-traditional student who will be defending her PhD next week (!), I can tell you that it can be very difficult to overcome the resistance to older students in graduate school. Despite having a lot of practical experience and an extremely strong academic record, I met serious resistance

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-09-28 Thread Katharine Miller
Hi, I wanted to thank everyone for their responses and recommendations. Some of them were quite helpful and have got me thinking in new ways. With respect to the use of the Rao index, I didn't express my question very well. What I was really trying to discern was whether it was appropriate to

[ECOLOG-L] Visualizing functional diversity

2012-09-26 Thread Katharine Miller
Hello, I have used Rao's quadratic entropy to evaluate functional diversity between a number of estuaries for which I also have a GIS database. I would like to be able to visualize which sites are more functionally similar across the region to evaluate patterns in dispersal, etc. I know it is