Research Links
Software
- Image Processing: Fiji
- Video Recording: ISpy
- Video Processing: VirtualDub, ffdshow, Fiji combined with these software
- Statistics: SPSS, R
- Line Drawings, Customization of Vector Images, Graphs, etc: Inkscape
(also use Inkscape to convert SPSS graphs to EPS format via PDF export) - Posters: Open Office Draw
Invertebrate Zoology
Gastropod Research
Neuroethology
- Neuroethology Scholarpedia page
- List of Neuroethology Books and Articles (from Jim Belanger)
- Model Systems (info on Tritonia, Pleurobranchaea, Clione, Aplysia and other models from Richard Vogt's course)
Microscopy
Immunohistochemistry
- Immunohistochemistry Wikipedia page (skip the last section on Directing therapy)
- IHCWorld Immunohistochemistry Introduction (all 6 sections)
- iBioSeminars - Fluorescence Microscopy
- iBioSeminars - Confocal Microscopy
Electron Microscopy
Animal Behaviour
- Useful book: Essential Animal Behavior (by Scott; basic background in ethology)
- Useful book: Observing Animal Behaviour (by Dawkins; less detailed)
- Useful book: Measuring Behaviour (3rd edition, by Martin and Bateson; more detailed)
- Very useful book and software: Quantifying Behavior the JWatcher Way (very detailed; exploits JWatcher)
- Useful article: How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Studying Animal Behaviour (by Milinski)
- Classic Book: The Study of Instinct (by Tinbergen)
Biology and General Science
- Reporting Statistics in Theses and Articles
- VassarStats: online statistical software
- Writing Scientific Manuscripts: a guide for undergraduates
- Algorithm for Writing a Scientific Manuscript
- SciDevNet: How do I write a scientific paper?
- SciDevNet: How do I submit a paper to a scientific journal?
- Books: for more indepth information on publishing: this or this will be helfpul
- Nova Scotian Institute for Science and their annual writing competition for undergraduate and graduate students (cash prizes!)
Research Facilities
Specialized Courses
Collaborators
Societies
Student Conferences
- Atlantic Undergraduate Biology Conference (annually in Feb/Mar at an Atlantic university)
[Run by the Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences - APICS] - ACCESS Conference (annually in May at an Atlantic University)
[Run by the Atlantic Canada Coastal and Estuarine Science Society] - Rising Stars of Research (annually at UBC in Aug)
- Pacific Ecology Conference (annually in Feb/Mar at a Western university)
- East Coast Nerve Net (annually in Mar in the eastern US)
- Atlantic Regional Comparative Physiology Conference (annually in Oct)