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Seminar at UVA today

Kevin will be presenting work on the Hubbard Brook hydropedology project at UVA’s Department of Environmental Sciences Seminar today. It always fun visiting our colleagues up the road, but we really need to do it more often.

Why do people blow the punchline in scientitic talks? The destructive effect of acknowledgements slides

Reblog from Writing in Science There are great points made in this blog post on the use of acknowledgements in talks.  This blog generally has great advice. “Last words are our strongest. That’s why the punchline comes at the end of the joke and the conclusions at the end of a presentation. The conclusion slide …

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AGU12 was a success!

We all had a great time at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco last week.  Kris, JP, and Cody all presented posters and Kevin convened a session on Deciphering Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes in Catchment Studies With a Focus on New Measurement Technologies and Hysteresis Analysis and gave a talk in a session on Nonpoint …

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AGU presentations from the group

It’s that time of year.  Group members are beginning to think about their AGU presentations!  Here is the run down this year: EP13D-0881. Runoff and sediment delivery from bare and graveled forest road approaches to stream crossings. Kristopher R. Brown; Kevin J. McGuire; W. M. Aust H41G-1251. How microtopography and soil morphology can help decipher …

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Ten guidelines for effective data visualization in scientific publications

I used to teach a class in data visualization because I was frustrated with the quality of graphics in student work and that I was seeing in papers I was reviewing for journals.  I just saw an article from my colleagues at Penn State that provides an excellent overview of effective data visualization principles.  The article …

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