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September 19, 2019September 28, 2019

Fifth Chew Bahir Drilling Project Workshop at Neanderthal Museum

Next week scientists from the Chew Bahir project will meet at the Neanderthal Museum near Düsseldorf to discuss the latest results of the 290 m long ICDP cores from S Ethiopia. The project, as part of the international Hominin Sites and Paleolaces Drilling Projects (HSPDP), tries to fill gaps in the environmental history of eastern Africa, the habitat of early human ancestry. Within the framework of the project, two ~290 m long cores were collected in the Chew Bahir Basin in Southern Ethiopia including the last ~550,000 year history of environmental change in the southern Ethiopian rift were some of the oldest fossils of our own species were discovered. The latest results from analyzing these cores will be discussed during the workshop.

September 13, 2019

Workshop on Deep Learning with MATLAB at U Potsdam

As host of the workshop on Deep Learning with MATLAB at U Potsdam I am looking forward to exciting discussions with MathWorks employee Christoph Stockhammer and 50 participants from different disciplines on 18 September 2019.

September 3, 2019January 27, 2025

Creating Better Scientific Posters, Part 2

In an earlier post I presented a template for a conference poster that had a dark background. The disadvantage of this template is that it uses a lot of printer ink. Here is the version of the same poster for those who prefer a white background.

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August 27, 2019August 27, 2019

Synchronizing Axes of Multiproxy Data

When paleoclimatologists work with multiproxy data, they often have to display many variables in multiple axes, and then to zoom and browse through individual sections of the data series. Here is a MATLAB script that demonstrates how to link axes for zooming and paning. Continue reading “Synchronizing Axes of Multiproxy Data”

August 20, 2019October 18, 2019

Creating Better Scientific Posters, Part 1

Industrial-organizational psychologist Mike Morrison is currently attracting a lot of attention on Twitter (#betterposters) and on YouTube where he suggests to create better science posters. He also provides templates for posters OSF. He basically complains about wall-of-text posters that he finds at conferences and suggests to use most of the poster area to include a colored rectangle with a central statement or conclusion. Here are my thoughts on the better poster movement. Continue reading “Creating Better Scientific Posters, Part 1”

August 13, 2019

Lecture on Tectonics, Climate and Human Evolution

Tomorrow on 14 August 2019 at 3 pm I will give a lecture on tectonics, climate and human evolution for ~100 school children and teachers at U Potsdam. I am really looking forward to this event!

July 5, 2019August 13, 2019

Inconsistency in Creating Graphics with MATLAB

While updating my book and trying to be as consistent as possible throughout the text and the MATLAB examples I find it quite surprising that the behaviour of graphics function is not consistent in MATLAB.

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June 24, 2019December 4, 2020

Using DATASTORE to Work with Large Collections of Data

The function datastore can be used to handle large collections of data. As an example, the modern multisensor core loggers for the automatic determination of physical and chemical properties of drill cores generates huge amounts of data within a very short time. An array with 80 variables, each with 50,000 measured values, is not unusual. In addition, the corresponding files contain mixtures of character strings for core section names, measurement dates and times, and comments from the laboratory technician who carried out the measurements, along with the actual numeric readings.

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