{"id":276,"date":"2019-09-03T11:29:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/?p=276"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:45:27","slug":"a-map-of-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/2019\/09\/03\/a-map-of-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of the bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, members of my lab and I have been involved in surveying the diversity of bumblebees in and around Maine. I&#8217;ve been a volunteer contributor to the Maine Bumblebee Atlas, a citizen science project run by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umf.maine.edu\/about\/faculty-staff\/ronald-butler\/\">UMaine Farmington<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/ifw\/\">Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also been submitting observations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumblebeewatch.org\/\">bumblebeewatch.org<\/a>, which is run by the <a href=\"https:\/\/xerces.org\/\">Xerxes Society<\/a>, a non-profit focused on invertebrate conservation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hobbes.colby.edu\/bee.map\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-580x343.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-580x343.png 580w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-940x556.png 940w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-945x559.png 945w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1-600x355.png 600w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/files\/2019\/09\/Picture1.png 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related to that work, I&#8217;ve been interested in methods for the visualization of complex dataset. As a side project, I&#8217;ve drafted a <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbes.colby.edu\/bee.map\/\">map of bumblebee sightings around the Gulf of Maine<\/a>. This was also my first attempt to use <a href=\"https:\/\/shiny.rstudio.com\/\">Shiny<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a> package for dynamic web content.\u00a0This interactive map presents data collected by me and my students as well as numerous citizen scientists. Here, members of the community, can explore the distributions of bumblebees around the Gulf of Maine. Clicking on individual dots provides more detail on each bee. Once genetic and microbiome data are available, I will add those data to this online visualization. That addition will allow students and community members to see for themselves how the diversity of bumblebees, their microbial communities, and their health varies across the landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dave.angelini@colby.edu\">Let me know<\/a> what you think of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, members of my lab and I have been involved in surveying the diversity of bumblebees in and around Maine. I&#8217;ve been a volunteer contributor to the Maine Bumblebee Atlas, a citizen science project run by&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/2019\/09\/03\/a-map-of-the-bees\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5169,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559,246031,102],"tags":[471821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/aphanotus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}