I will be working with Heather on the metal sorption project, was not sure if I should make a separate repo or not for class accounting purposes.
Heather's repo: https://github.com/HLR-04614/final-project
Name(s) of the folks involved in this project: Heather, Beth
Working title: Applying ecological theories to predict metal sorption onto plastic debris
Project summary (1-2 sentences): We will reanalyze a 2015 metal dataset using code and theories we discussed in class to see if Neutral Theory can be applied to pollution data in the same way that it is used for species analysis.
What is especially interesting (to you!) about this project?: I'm interested to see how neutral theory might apply to non-biological species and if the methods and patterns of colonization are similar enough to use ecological models
How do you plan to tackle this project?: We'll start by taking code from class and running the code using the 2015 metals data. We may have to look at subsets of the data first.
What concepts or tools from class relate to this project?: Neutral theory and Lotka Voltera both relate to possible ways that metals could compete for sorption sites and are theories that might provide insight into how pollution amounts change over time on plastic debris.
What additional resources (code, data, literature) would support this project?:
How can Andy or Renata help?: