Happy New Year!

Oh boy, 2011 is around and I’m going to have to do some real work this year! My New Year Resolutions: Publish more papers.. I say this every year.. Get more grants.. Looks like it will be harder than ever before due to the global financial crisis and reductions...

PhD on Historical Marine Landscapes

The School of Ocean Sciences (SOS), Bangor University hosts the Cemlyn Jones Studentship funded by the Cemlyn Jones Trust. The Trust has a long-term interest in the history of the Welsh coast and shallow seas. Stability and variability of coastal marine habitats on...

Correlation Matrix in RExcel using RandFriends

I’m finding it much simpler and convenient to use R now the excellent R and Friends package is available. Here is a brief outline how to do very rapid correlation matrices in R and get the data back into Excel. [flowplayer...

Beta-diversity of cold-water coral reefs

Lea-Anne Henry, Andrew J Davies and J Murray Roberts Spatial heterogeneity in coral reef communities is well documented. This “species turnover” (beta diversity) on shallow warm-water reefs strongly conforms to spatial gradients in the environment as well as spatially...