In this journal club Pablo will give an overview of REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) and synthetic controls,

Suggested readings include West et al (2023) and the rebuttal by Mitchard (2023)

West et al 2023: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade3535

Mitchard 2023: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4661873

Note this week's journal club will take place in the IRSS lab

An interesting article recently shared in the IRSS Slack channel..

Standard citation metrics are bland: The h-index? boring. The total number of citations? Meh. The i-10 index? Arbitrary. Imagine if, instead, there was a badge system like the one used by StackExchange.

Read the article below and considering this topic of discussion - what other alternative scoring systems could academic benefit from other than the H Index? What are the bias in these types of scoring systems?

In place of this week's Journal Club, we invite you to an EDI event hosted by Silva21:

The next Silva21 EDI workshop will be hosted by Marie-José Naud, PhD, who is an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) advisor and Vice-rectorate of Research, Creation and Innovation and a member of the EDI office at Université Laval. You can read more about Marie-José on her LinkedIn profile and ResearchGate page.
More details as to the theme and agenda of this meeting will be released shortly. Participation by all Silva21 HQP is strongly encouraged. Feel free to forward this invitation to your collaborators.

This is an Online Teams event: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTljOWU3ZDEtNjczZi00ZjMyLThjYzgtOWEzZDAxOWI0YjZk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222fff08c9-91d4-4fc8-bbdd-dd59b7414ddb%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22863a800d-68db-459e-a777-79e95353bf40%22%7d

Meeting ID: 283 772 754 420
Passcode: rXZDYW

PowerPoint is so 20th century - in this Journal Club we're talking Canva for presentations (and other alternatives) and graphic design.

If you use alternatives to PowerPoint (like Inkscape), please bring them up and demo them during the session!

Follow the arrow to go to Canva.com and play around with it beforehand.

Using ClimateNA, I’ll give an overview about how to use this tool (as both a website an desktop version), how to access historical data, how to generate future projections, what the projection scenarios to use, what climate variables you can correlate to your data, how to present it in publications/presentations, etc. Feel free to bring your laptops if you would like to spend some time playing with the app (you can either download the desktop app which is required for using multiple GPS points or the website version which generates data for a single point – another thing we will be covering in the session!)

A workshop who feel they don't write very good code and could use some insight from big data and computer science heroes

Chris will share some of the hacks he's learned over the years (which may not necessarily be the right way) for packages like lidR and terra.

Bring your tips and tricks to share with the group!