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Dissertation defense seminar

Posted on 30 September 20191 January 2020 by jwbenning

I defended my PhD! In case anyone wants to see my seminar, I've linked to it here. If you're pressed for time, the wordcloud below sums it up quite well.

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Evolution 2017 talk

Posted on 10 January 20187 February 2018 by jwbenning
Fieldwork in Southern California

Microbes, lagomorphs, and the geographic range limit of a California endemic wildflower

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Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data

Posted on 2 April 20175 April 2017 by jwbenning

A while ago I had some climate data that I needed to play with, but they were in a "wide" format that made analysis in R difficult. These data were obtained from weather stations across the range of C. xantiana, and their format may make sense to us humans, but for data wrangling / analysis, … Continue reading Using tidyr to clean messy, wide data

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Summer Field Season 2015

Posted on 17 September 201524 September 2015 by jwbenning

This always happens -- I have grand plans to post while in the field, then things get too crazy and I don't end up writing anything til I'm back home. But better late than never, I suppose. Summer 2015 field season was hot, dry, and productive -- kinda like the Central Valley! As we all know, … Continue reading Summer Field Season 2015

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Lightning Talk

Posted on 17 September 201518 September 2015 by jwbenning

I gave my first talk this week, at the UMN Plant Biology seminar. The format was a series of "lightning talks," meant to be a 5-minute synopsis of some cool work you're doing. You can watch mine below.   Trapped! A SoCal species border from John Benning on Vimeo.

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jwbenning [at] gmail [dot] com
Department of Botany
University of Wyoming

About me

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weiss-Lehman (U. Wyoming) and Hufbauer (Colorado State) labs. I’m a North Carolina transplant currently ‘ghost-doc’-ing in Minneapolis, MN.

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