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Modern science has always been data driven but advances in data gathering tools from ground sensors to aerial-based remote sensing increase the researchers' opportunities and responsibility for the professional management of data to support the reproducibility and validity of science. In this course, biology, engineering, and information science students will learn to design and implement research methodologies for field research that effectively combine 1) the discovery and use of existing data with 2) the collection, organization, analysis, dissemination, and preservation of field generated research data. These research methodologies will be implemented/studied within the motivating context of behavioral wildlife observation research. Working in teams, students will build, program and deploy microcontroller-based field sensors to gather animal behavioral information in challenging field conditions. Students will use tools such as R and Jupyter Notebooks to add metadata, document data for publication and deposit the data in a trusted data repository. (1-6 units) |
