Publicación: Climate change, migration, and conflict in the Amazon and the Andes

 

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2013/02/26/54570/climate-change-migration-and-conflict-in-the-amazon-and-the-andes/

Este informe examina las interacciones del cambio climático, la degradación ambiental, la migración y los conflictos en la Amazonía, las sabanas tropicales de Brasil, el Cerrado y Bolivia, los Andes del Perú y Bolivia, y la llanura costera árida del Perú. Estas regiones representan las principales regiones geográficas y climáticas del continente, abarcar toda la gama de las tendencias socioeconómicas remodelación de la región, y capturar el nuevo corazón de la economía ilícita del continente, incluyendo el comercio mundial de cocaína.

Cursos online gratuitos: Case-Based Introduction to Biostatistics

https://www.coursera.org/course/casebasedbiostat?utm_campaign=2013-july-newsletter&utm_date=1373911997&utm_source=newsletter&utm_user=1511966&utm_medium=email&utm_recommendation=1&utm_variant=1

Dr. Scott L. Zeger, PhD

Learn to frame and address health-related questions using modern biostatistics ideas and methods.

Workload: 4-6 hours/week 

About the Course

The course objective is to enable each student to enhance his or her quantitative scientific reasoning about problems related to human health. Biostatistics is about quantitative approaches - ideas and skills - to address bioscience and health problems. To achieve mastery of biostatistics skills, a student must “see one, do one, teach one.” Therefore, the course is organized to promote regular practice of new ideas and methods.

The course is organized into 3 self-contained two-week modules. Each module except the first is built around an important health problem. The first module reviews the scientific method and the role of experimentation and observation to generate data, or evidence, relevant to selecting among competing hypotheses about the natural world. Bayes theorem is used to quantify the concept of evidence. Then, we will discuss what is meant by the notion of “cause.”
 
In the second module, we use a national survey dataset to estimate the costs of smoking and smoking-caused disease in American society. The concepts of point and interval estimation are introduced. Students will master the use of confidence intervals to draw inferences about population means and differences of means. They will use stratification and weighted averages to compare subgroups that are otherwise similar in an attempt to estimate the effects of smoking and smoking-caused diseases on medical expenditures.

In the final module, we will study what factors influence child-survival in Nepal using data from the Nepal Nutritional Intervention Study Sarlahi or NNIPPS. Students will estimate and obtain confidence intervals for infant survival rates, relative rates and odds ratios within strata defined by gestational period, singleton vs twin births, and parental characteristics.

Recommended Background

Interest in the scientific method as broadly related to human health. Ability to reason precisely. Mathematics through pre-calculus.

Cursos online gratuitos: Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

https://www.coursera.org/course/biostats?utm_campaign=2013-july-newsletter&utm_date=1373911997&utm_source=newsletter&utm_user=1511966&utm_medium=email&utm_recommendation=1&utm_variant=1

Brian Caffo, PhD

This class presents the fundamental probability and statistical concepts used in elementary data analysis. It will be taught at an introductory level for students with junior or senior college-level mathematical training including a working knowledge of calculus. A small amount of linear algebra and programming are useful for the class, but not required.

Workload: 3-5 hours/week

About the Course

Statistics is a thriving discipline that provides the fundamental language of all empirical research. Biostatistics is simply the field of statistics applied in the biomedical sciences.
This course puts forward key mathematical and statistical topics to help students understand biostatistics at a deeper level. After completing this course, students will have a basic level of understanding of the goals, assumptions, benefits and negatives of probability modeling in the medical sciences. This understanding will be invaluable when approaching new statistical topics and will provide students with a framework and foundation for future self learning.
Topics include probability, random variables, distributions, expectations, variances, independence, conditional probabilities, likelihood and some basic inferences based on confidence intervals.

Course Syllabus

The goal of this course is to equip biostatistics and quantitative scientists with core applied statistical concepts and methods:

1. Students will learn basic mathematical biostatistics including probability distributions and their properties.
2. Students will learn the basics of statistical likelihood.
3. Students will learn the basics of confidence intervals.
4. The course will introduce students to the display and communication of statistical data. This will include graphical and exploratory data analysis using tools like scatterplots, boxplots and the display of multivariate data. 

Recommended Background

Knowledge of calculus, set theory and a moderate level of mathematical literacy are prerequisites for this class. A small amount of programming is useful, but not required.

Cursosn online gratuitos: Climate change

https://www.coursera.org/course/climatechange

Professor Jon Barnett, Professor John Freebairn, Professor David Jamieson, Dr. Maurizio Toscano and Rachel Webster

This course develops an interdisciplinary understanding of the social, political, economic and scientific perspectives on climate change.

Workload: 6-8 hours/week

Sessions:Aug 12th 2013 (9 weeks long)

About the Course

What is Climate Change? How should we respond to Climate Change? These questions are complex, not least because the responses available to us depend upon who is providing the answers and the particular perspective they take. The economist sees the economic challenges and opportunities of Climate Change; the scientist sees the need to describe and explain Climate Change; the policy-maker and social scientist see Climate Change as a social problem. Therefore, the first step to understanding Climate Change and what we do about it is to see how experts from different disciplines engage with the issue. The second step is to appreciate how our response to Climate Change depends upon the interplay between these different approaches.

This course offers you an introduction to different disciplinary perspectives on Climate Change to help you think about how Climate Change affects you as an individual, as a member of your local community, as a citizen of your country and as a member of the global community. We have designed the presentations, discussions, activities and assessment tasks in this course to help you understand what Climate Change is and what you – and we – should do about it.

Recommended Background

No background is necessary. This subject is designed to be accessible to students from any discipline.

Recursos botánicos online - Revistas científicas, manuales,

En la siguiente página encontrarán links sobre revistas científicas on line y manuales

http://www.arbolesornamentales.es/Floras.htm

Becas Proyecto BioCuencas - Conservación Internacional Perú

http://www.conservation.org/global/peru/prensa/Pages/Becas-de-Viaje-BioCuencas.aspx

El Proyecto BioCuencas otorgará becas de viaje para estudiantes peruanos y extranjeros con el fin de realizar estudios/investigación científicos relacionados al Proyecto en la zona de Alto Mayo, San Martín, Perú. Priorizaremos las investigaciones que se realizan en las cuencas de Yuracyacu, Rio Negro, Mishkiyacu, Rumiyacu y Almendra o en las comunidades indígenas de Shampuyacu o Shimpiyacu en la zona de amortiguamiento de BPAM.
Requisitos para los investigadores:
 
​Peruanos:

• Mínimo 4 años de estudios universitarios
• Estar inscrito o estar preparando su tesis en una universidad peruana
• Contar con un seguro privado contra accidentes
• Candidatos de PhD o investigadores PostDoc
• En caso de estudiantes PhD: estar inscrito en un programa de doctorado de alguna universidad extranjera
• Contar con un seguro privado contra accidentes
• En cualquier caso, ya sea investigador peruano o extranjero, la beca de viaje sólo cubre los gastos incluidos en el apartado c. de este documento. En ningún caso cubre remuneraciones o sueldos.

Requisitos de la investigación:

• Monto máximo: Investigadores doctorales o post-doc 20 000 PEN; Estudiantes de maestría (o equivalente) o pregrado 10 000 PEN. Si es una investigación conjunta de peruano con extranjero, el monto máximo será 25 000 PEN.
• La investigación se tiene que iniciar antes de fin de diciembre 2013. La duración máxima para producir el informe final para el proyecto es de un año para los estudiantes bachiller y maestría (hasta 31.12.2014) y de dos años para los doctorales o post-doc (hasta 31.12.2015).
• Se priorizará estudios conjuntos de peruanos con extranjeros
• Como producto final para el uso de Proyecto BioCuencas, se requiere un informe sobre la investigación el cual incluya: antecedentes, métodos y materiales, resultados, conclusiones y discusión. Este informe se puede producir en el idioma español o inglés.
• Se priorizará los estudios dónde el resultado sea un artículo científico publicado en una revista internacional, el cual deberá mencionar el apoyo recibido del Proyecto BioCuencas.
• Todos los resultados e informes producto de las investigaciones estarán disponibles su uso por el Proyecto BioCuencas. En todos los casos se respetará la autoría de los datos.

Gastos que se pueden cubrir con la beca de viaje:

• Viajes internacionales
• Viajesnacionales
• Estadía en la zona del Alto Mayo, viáticos max 100 PEN por día, incluyendo alojamiento
• Gastos de análisis de muestras
• Seguro de Viaje
• Publicación de tesis y/o investigación en revista científica

Gastos que no se pueden cubrir con la beca:

• Sueldo(s) u honorario(s) de investigador(es)
• Equipos nuevos (como GPS, laptop)
• Reemplazo de equipos (como GPS, laptop)

Temas de investigación priorizadas:
Servicios ecosistémicos (e.g. valorar los servicios del recurso hídrico o de biodiversidad), especialmente relacionado con los temas de género y biodiversidad.

Requisitos para la aplicación:

• Fecha límite: 18 de Agosto 2013
• CV(s) de lo(s) investigador(es)
• Plan de estudio (máx 5 páginas): antecedentes, materiales y métodos, resultados esperados, cronograma, plan de financiamiento y presupuesto.
• Una carta explicando los motivos del estudio, la situación actual del investigador y los aportes a los objetivos del proyecto BioCuencas