Category Archives: Brokaw Lab

Back to a routine….maybe

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Samantha

During the first week of school Dr. Brokaw taught me how to use the computer program that I will need to do the Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) of our Tallgrass Prairie vegetation plots. The program is called Canoco. It is … Continue reading →

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Rodent Phylogeny Research

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Michael Maeker

Hello fellow biology enthusiast, my name is Michael Maeker and this blog post is the first blog entry on the Phylogeny of Thomasomys research project. The goal of this research is to determine the structure of a phylogeny for a … Continue reading →

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Prairie Research: Background Information

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Samantha

I thought I would give some background information on the research Emily and I are working on. Today’s post will be the background, and my next post will explain the methods we are using in our research, hopefully breaking this … Continue reading →

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At the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Samantha

This summer Dr. Brokaw and I took a trip to the Nature Conservancy’s Tall Grass Prairie Preserve to collect new data for our bioremediation research.  I enjoyed getting the experience in field research. The first few days were spent collecting … Continue reading →

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Blog Launch

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Joshua Brokaw

This blog was inspired by a provocative open science blog by Rosie Redfield called RRResearch.  While gaining fame during the recent debate over arsenic-based DNA (listen), RRResearch also introduced blogging as a new component of the scientific method.  Unlike a … Continue reading →

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