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Welcome to the PalEON Wiki

Quick access to the Berkely Meeting pages

Aims & Goals

PalEON has a lot of moving parts: many people, many projects. The goal of this wiki is to facilitate research coordination within PalEON. This wiki and its subpages are interactive documents that allow users to post progress updates for various projects, create links among projects, develop proposals within the PalEON domain, complete established projects, deposit and store finished products and access and update public data.

This wiki is open to PalEON participants and a login is required. The public PalEON website is located at: http://www.paleonproject.org

Member Login: Top Right of Page

  • PalEON members who have been invited to this wiki please click the login box on the top right to register an account at the wiki. To register you must provide your name, a user name (first initial, last name is preferred), your password and a valid email address.
  • Once you are registered you will be able to see more of the site, but will still have limited permissions. All new accounts must be validated by a PalEON administrator before you can edit pages, or get full access to the wiki. We are doing this so that your valuable data is not accessed without permission. We're going to try to get you up to full access as soon as possible once you register.

Basic Editing

  • To edit a page, click the “edit this page” tab at the top. This opens a script window, and has the ability to preview your changes below before saving them.
  • Basic editing tips can be found here or accessed from the left sidebar at any time
  • TIP: It's often helpful to open the wiki in a second window and steal syntax format from another page
  • IMPORTANT: When you make changes to a page please remember to fill out the Edit summary!

PalEON News

A complete listing of PalEON activities and meetings can be seen here.

  • Fall 2012 edition of The Posterior Distribution is out. The latest edition of the PalEON quarterly newsletter can be found here. Check it out to learn about recent progress and upcoming events!
  • Mike Dietze talks PalEON at the NEON Annual Meeting. October 17, 2012. PalEON PI Mike Dietze was invited to speak about his work on two NSF Macrosystems Biology projects at the NEON, Inc., Annual Members Meeting held this week in Boulder, Colorado. His talk, “A Tale of Two Macrosystems Biology Projects,” detailed the goals, progress, and plans of both PalEON and a second Macrosystems project on which Mike works, “Climate change impacts on forest biodiversity.” View presentation here
  • August 12-18, 2012: PalEON Summer Course was a great success! Check out the Course Pages for course materials. Photos here!
  • July 20, 2012: The Summer 2012 issue of The Posterior Distribution, the PalEON quarterly newsletter, is out: Summer 2012
  • July 2012: PalEON's first three publications are now out or in press. Check out Goring et al. 2012, Kumar et al. 2012, and Jackson 2012 on the Products Page.
  • May 25, 2012: 2 downscaled GCM driver datasets are now available for use to run PalEON phase 1 simulations. The final driver dataset will be available soon. Instructions for download here
  • May 15, 2012: Happy 1 year anniversary, PalEON!
  • May 1, 2012: First annual report submitted to NSF. You can find the report on the Useful Papers page.
  • April 18, 2012: PalEON 2 Proposal submitted! You can find the proposal text on the Useful Papers page.
  • October 11 - 12, 2011: PalEON Settlement Vegetation Workshop (Madison, WI): A meeting to connect modelers, statisticians and historical ecologists and to facilitate the use of the Public Lands Survey, Township Surveys and General Land Office surveys. Minutes and Summaries here.
  • ESA 2011: A lot of interest in PalEON demonstrated there. Jason McLachlan's 8/9 Tuesday talk in the NEON symposium filled the room. The Wednesday night PalEON open meeting was well attended by the paleo-data community, and the discussion and response was favorable. The general mood was excitement and the feeling that this is the next step to take.

Sections

Calendar & Meetings

This section is where upcoming meetings are listed and where meeting notes for completed meetings are stored.

People

This section is the repository for information about individual members of the PalEON project. Not only will this link to a brief biography, but it will also provide links to the projects, proposals, data and products that the individual is associated with. We welcome all Participants to begin editing their own page. The Administrators (Simon Goring and Bjorn Brooks) will also take care to ensure that the pages are kept up to date as much as possible. The PalEON postdocs (Simon Goring, Zuofong Shang, and Bjorn Brooks)'s Project Journals of their project activities (like a notebook) can be found here.


Goals (To Do Lists)

This section provides a place to keep track of Summer/Yearly goals. To encourage coordination among projects, each PI (or groups of PIs) should identify major goals each summer and year and indicate who you are working with on these projects. This way Jody, Jason, or other PalEON team members can check in to see how things are progressing, and/or if plans have changed. For those of you that like check lists this will be a great place to “check off” (or insert DONE on) your To Do list.

Projects

This section is for currently active projects within PalEON Phase 1. It should include a brief introduction for the page/project and any living documents intended for publication or dissemination. These pages are also intended for discussion among members. Are there data needs that another section/project can fulfill? Are there synergies, conflicts? Check out the project page, the discussion pages and any linked documents.

Manuscript Ideas

We've created the Manuscript Ideas section to keep all PalEON team members up to date on what manuscripts are being written and to facilitate collaboration where appropriate. Post your manuscript outlines with primary author(s) here so others can see if there is someplace they can contribute data or analyses and to reduce the potential for duplicate efforts. Include authors, so others know who to contact. Given the limitations of the wiki, this section is not meant to be a working document for multiple authors to make changes simultaneously (like google docs). Authorship guidelines will also be included here, when the Authorship Social Club finalizes them.

Proposals

This section is intended to be the site for great ideas you may have that could be accomplished in PalEON2.0, or with others outside the PalEON domain. For each new project you can link to personnel that may be interested in the proposal, projects that might feed into the proposal and data that might be useful. Use it as a sandbox for upcoming work, to brainstorm or to develop independent research.

Products

This section will be filled once we get papers and other products out of the PalEON project. Please be sure to link back any papers published through PalEON, any PowerPoint presentations or posters you deliver, or any related academic documents so that we can maintain a repository for the project.

Figures

This section is a repository for figures as well as presentations. Since the majority of figures put together for various talks are typically on individual people's computers, we thought this might be a nice location to let other team members “shop” for figures when preparing their talks. Figures should include details about the author (so credit can be given) and the date (in there is a newer version). **If you use someone's figure, please give appropriate credit!
This section also includes presentations to facilitate options to browse for figure ideas that may not be uploaded to the wiki. The presentations listed here can also be found in the Products page.

Public Data

Public Data is for anything that may be of use to the PalEON community that can be actively shared. Please respect data use agreements. We will establish a formal data use policy that will be posted in this section. Public data was the best 'P' word I could come up with. If you have any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.


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