OK, somebody lied!

When we cam up to visit Oregon State last March, everybody talked about the weather. They would say things like 'it's perfect in the summer' and 'its gray and misty in the winter' but everyone agreed... 'it never actually snows in Corvallis'

Well... they all lied!

It started snowing last night and we weren't expecting anything to stick since it was all melting. Well, it stuck and now it looks like a pretty winter landscape. Kids across the street are sledding down the hills and all I want to do is make some hot chocolate and curl up under a few blankets and stay warm. Too bad that I have class today and have to go in. Wish David and myself a safe time driving through our first snow!

Buried under papers

I am working on a project form my spatial and temporal statistics class today, with the task of assessing the use of spatial and temporal statistical methods for a specific topic over three decades. I choose to look at spatial relationships between marine habitats and fish assemblages. Tasked to find 30 peer reviewed journals articles over 3 decades is not easy! Even using specific terminology, I still didn't manage to find 30 papers. But I did find a lot of false advertising! I don't care how many times each papers uses key words like pattern and spatial relationship, nearest neighbor analysis, autocorrelation, they still lie. It reminds me of historical map making like.....

Personally I have never seen a sea turtle with blowholes?

Don't forget the modern version of identifying monsters...

You know the maps where cartographers drew the world they knew of and anywhere that they were missing information they would add some elaborate drawing (usually in the ocean, because its still relatively unknown)! False advertising!

Maybe I should just review my papers using this:

Midterms!

Whoop! Cartography midterm here I come! If I used this as one of my map 

projections do you think I'd get full credit?

 

Hope everyone is have a great start to the month of November, cause I know I am!