Current & Upcoming Courses

Aarhus University (2020 - Present)

Programming and Statistics for Biologists - The purpose of this course is to train students in the quantitative skills they need to undertake data analysis and hypothesis testing in biology. These skills include programming to support data handling, exploration and visualization as well as fundamental statistical modelling training to undertake quantitative hypothesis testing. Level: Bachelor; Co-instructor with Alejandro Ordonez Gloria & Ian Marshall.

  • Part of AU’s Data Skills Portfolio Program

 

Marine Ecosystems  - Physico-chemical processes determining distribution, diversity and productivity of marine organisms with focus on fish in particular. Team taught with Aquatic Biology instructors. Level: Masters/Kandidat; Co-instructor with Peter Grønkjær & Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen

 

Exploring Your Hypotheses with Statistics  - Learn to develop statistical models from your hypotheses and the programming skills to fit and analyse your models in the programming language R. Contact Anna for more information. Level: PhD

Exploring Your Hypotheses with Individual-Based Models  - This course will introduce students to IBMs as hypothesis-testing tools that can be used in their biological research. Contact Anna for more information. Level: PhD

 

Productive Writing for Biologists  - Strategies to improve productivity of scientific writing. The course helps students identify individual strengths and challenges in their scientific writing, and provides them with a range of strategies to develop their writing skills. Team taught with Department of Biology instructors. Contact Anna for more information. Level: PhD

 

In addition, Anna contributes to the following courses:



Past Courses

 

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2013 - 2017)

OCN 621 Biological Oceanography  - Factors governing productivity, population dynamics, distribution of organisms in major ecosystems of the ocean, emphasis on ecology of pelagic zone. Link to 2017 Syllabus.

OCN 682 Introduction to Programming and Statistics in R  - Graduate course covering an introduction to programming and mathematical and statistical analysis using R. Link to 2017 Syllabus.

OCN 399/499/699 Directed Research - Directed research projects for undergraduate and graduate students.  

 

Aarhus University (2016)

Programming and Statistics for the Aquatic Sciences - Introductory course on programming for effective data analysis and statistical modelling to address research questions in the aquatic sciences. Using programming language R.

 

Dalhousie University (2009)

Ecosystem Modelling of Marine and Freshwater Environments - Graduate course covering development and application of ecosystem models linking biology and physics, including theoretical background and hands-on tutorials.

 

Consulting help from Anna

I get requests to help design models for hypothesis testing (including data analysis, statistical and mathematical models, and related programming).  I'm happy to help!  I love coding and find it exciting to explore data and hypotheses with other motivated individuals. 

If you're interested in my help, please consider the following:

  1. Help with coursework: It is not possible and/or appropriate for me to help with assignments for courses in which I am not involved.  I encourage you instead to contact your course instructor and/or teaching assistants.

  2. Help with thesis work: If the hypothesis you are testing is part of your thesis (Masters, PhD, etc.), I will need your thesis advisor's agreement before I consult with you.  This way, we can make sure that the strategies we design are aimed towards the desired outcomes of your thesis and we avoid moving in unhelpful directions. You will also need to write and email minutes from our meetings to myself and your advisor. 

  3. Acknowledging my time: In all cases, I expect to be acknowledged for my time.  Appropriate acknowledgement will vary with the extent of our collaboration. In particular, I expect to be offered authorship when I contribute considerably to research leading to a scientific publication and thus meet authorship criteria (e.g. contributing to model design, analysing data and/or interpreting results, drafting and/or revising text).

If you have any questions about the above, send me an email

If you agree with the above and would like to set up a meeting, send me an email.   

- Anna

 


Getting Out of Your Own Way

Whether you’re preparing for your qualifying/comprehensive exams, final defence, or other life challenge, below is a collection of thoughts to help you get out of your own way:

 

Public & Community Outreach

Links:

In the news:

  • Neuheimer, A.B. 2011. Fish in Hot Water. Article for Australasian Science, December 2011,p. 34-35. (link)

 

Are you an educator...

...interested in including biological oceanography in your class?  The Neuheimer Lab can aid in creating lesson plans for grades K-12, covering many aspects of biological oceanography (e.g. animals, ecology) and marine science in general (ocean circulation, etc.).  Contact us here.