Name: Joan Meiners
Type: User
Company: @weecology
Bio: Environmental Journalist, Data Reporter and former Ecologist.
Loves environmental data stories, macroecology, bees & bicycles
Twitter: beecycles
Location: University of Florida
Blog: www.joanmeiners.com
Joan Meiners's Projects
Code and data for manuscript and project on bees without flowers: honeydew foraging
Data journalism project on Louisiana temperature trends, in conjunction with AP story looking at nation-wide trends (https://www.nola.com/expo/news/erry-2018/06/4d9c52ffe16754/global_warming_cooks_up_a_diff.html#incart_river_index).
Data and code for a journalism project with Climate Central on peaker power plants and battery storage
Repo for data work towards the 10-course Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization
The Leek group guide to data sharing
Data analysis and graphics production for Sara Sneath's series for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on how the Endangered Species Act has helped three iconic Louisiana species. Read her story about the American alligator here: https://www.nola.com/expo/news/erry-2018/08/afb534b8777909/saving-the-southern-wild-allig.html
Data journalism project about environmental impacts of Florida's population growth. Published through WUFT (NPR) December 2018 as a series from Cynthia Barnett's UF J-school's Environmental Journalism class.
We resurveyed Pinnacles National Park for native bee species and compared results to bee inventories completed 10 and 15 years earlier, as well as to similar efforts conducted across the U.S.
Official Repo of the Portal Project Data
Data journalism project on power access across income levels in Gainesville, Florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
University of Florida journalism project about the environmental dynamics of phosphate mining and fertilizer overuse in the U.S. Southeast.
Quickly download, clean up, and install ecological datasets into a database management system
This is an example of how someone could store their thesis data on Github
Data journalism project exploring patterns of toxic substance spills using public data from the United States Coast Guard National Response Center. Focusing on Louisiana issues for the Polluter's Paradise series (see link), a collaboration between ProPublica, The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. See below for a project overview.