Natural history museums are privileged spaces for seminal research on different subjects of biological sciences such as biodiversity, evolution, ecology, biogeography and taxonomy. This crucial role is due to the fact that they represent biological diversity repositories becoming huge libraries of information on Earth living organisms. The long-term sampling through various decades renders tonatural history collections an historic perspective that allows reconstructing a “memory”, sometimes secular, of natural patterns and processes.

Objectives: To introduce participants to the details of communicating science to non-specialized audiences, including, but not exclusive to, public and private stakeholders, students and teachers, and media professionals. The course will particularly address the design, organisation, implementation and impact assessment of public engagement activities such as exhibitions, science festivals or games. At the end of the course, students should be able to develop and produce small-budget events or products to communicate scientific results and ideas.

Currently, climate changes or alterations are known to be reflected on the stable isotope ratios of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen and Sulphur present in atmospheric gas forms, fresh or ocean water, as well as in plants and animals and organic matter in the soil. Samples from those matrices can provide a record for such changes across a given length of time and / or space. Also, ecological and physiological processes often reflect on stable isotope ratios, again setting a record in plant, animal or other living tissues.

We begin with an introduction to R and provide a protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems. We will discuss how to detect outliers, deal with collinearity and transformations.

Lisboa será palco da Primeira Conferência Internacional Comunidades de Energia.

A conferência é organizada pela Coopérnico - Cooperativa de Energias Renováveis, através do projeto COMPILE, e pelo grupo CCIAM do cE3c, FCUL, através dos projetos PROSEU e BEACON.

A iniciativa procura dar a conhecer a diversidade e importância destes insetos, bem como as ferramentas básicas para a realização da sua identificação.

Atividade gratuita, com inscrições a decorrer até 14 de julho (e-mail pcsimoes@ciencias.ulisboa.pt).

The cE3c 5th Annual Meeting will take place on July 1-2 2019, at the National Museum of Natural History and Science.

In this annual event, reserved for the cE3c community, researchers gather together to present and discuss their latest projects, scientific results and outreach initiatives and explore novel ideas. There is also a strong social component, promoting interactions between different research groups in the centre.

Por Ivo Chelo (cE3c - Evolutionary Ecology - Eco-evolutionary Genetics).