Since 2015, the Plant Functional Traits Courses have collected ecosystem gas fluxes data in China, Peru, Svalbard, western Norway and South Africa. But since 2015, the method to process such data has also evolved a lot, and we have now developed the fluxible R package to make it reproducible and faster.
There is now an exciting “data forensics” opportunity: gathering the original raw data, reprocessing them with the fluxible R package, and compare them to the originally published data. This is an opportunity to learn about state of the art reproducibility in ecology and data management, improve coding skills to handle large datasets, and get an insight in the bubble of R package development. The reprocessed data are planned to be used in a global flux study in which the student would be invited. Further collaboration in the development of the fluxible R package is also a possible follow-up of that project.
Interested? Reach out to Joseph Gaudard
Requirements for prior knowledge and other practicalities
Basics in R coding and use of GitHub, but a lot of help will be available.
Flexible timing and remote work are possible.
The project is hosted at the Between the Fjords lab: https://betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/home/
In collaboration with the Plant Functional Traits Courses: https://plantfunctionaltraitscourses.w.uib.no/courses/
And with the fluxible R package development team: https://plant-functional-trait-course.github.io/fluxible/