This is the last day of my summer internship. It has been a superb experience. I’ve recieved very generous and professional help from mentors and many other members from DataONE community. I am especially very grateful for Suzie and Dane. They keep encouraging me and providing guidance on everything. I’ve learned numerous Continue reading [week 9] New and Emerging communities
So far we have six interviews recorded. I’m working on transcriptions now! Soon I’ll wrap up with this summer’s outputs. Conducted three researcher interviews and transcribed one interview. Contacted a list of authors of articles that are in our case studies spreadsheet. Documented more details in case selection method. Next Continue reading Week 8: New and Emerging Communities
This week: Conducted one interviews and transcribed one interview. Contacted a list of authors of articles that are in our case studies spreadsheet. Two replied with interests. Documented more details in case selection method. Next step: Send out recruitment emails again to the ones that haven’t replied yet. Expand case Continue reading Week 7: New and Emerging Communities
This has been a hectic week….A lot of prep for the first interviews. Conducted two interviews and had one scheduled next week. Expanded the list of case studies. Searched and documented environmental health studies which used the datasets from DataONE member nodes such as USGS, NEON, KNB, LTER, etc. plans Continue reading Week 6: New/Emerging communities
This week’s activities: Sent out first round recruitment to a list of people in Synthesis Centers. Contacted Amber for more potential participants. Expanded the list of case studies. Looked at member nodes such as USGS, NEON, KNB, LTER, etc. Updated bibliography with a series of papers on interdisciplinary collaboration. Next Continue reading Week 5: New/Emerging Communities
I have been sick this week, so most of work has been suspended. The main output: With the help from Dane, we are able to continue the list. I’ve found in USGS publication page hundreds of environmental health studies that used DataOne data. But I haven’t got a chance to Continue reading [intern]week 4 New/Emerging communities
The main tasks within this week are reading papers and looking for case studies. I looked through some cases of environmental health studies and documented the environmental data used. Most of the studies in the last five years have documented their data sources very clearly and most of the data Continue reading Week 3: New/Emerging Communities- Case studies
This week’s output inlcude: A white paper draft that 1) introduces environmental health background 2) defines environmental health and its research community; 3) presents convincing cases that demonstrates how environmental data can inform human health research. Contacted members in DataONE, asking for a list of people that could be our Continue reading Week2 Emerging Communities
Last week I began to work on literature review of environmental health and synthesis centers. The goals are to 1) draft the outline for the lit review and begin filling in some introductory text, and 2) Identify key readings and develop an annotated bibliography around this. The output of this week include: Continue reading Week 1 Emerging Communities