1. Project Assignment – Instructions
Add your last name to the file name
it to
with the title “MARS6300 peer review”
by the end of May 6th (Sunday) 1

2. Project Assignment – Peer Review
Questions / Answers
(1 point each, towards peer review score)
Select 5 questions from the symposium and provide a written answer.
You will be graded on both the difficulty of the question you select and on the correctness and completeness of your answer.
Provide each question followed by the answer
(1 point each)
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3. Project Assignment – Peer Review
Presenter Name: _____________________
Review:
(1 point each, towards peer review score)
Read your partner’s ppt and address the following:
Selection of analyzed species / variables & samples
Data transformations & manipulations
Selection of the number of axes (stress)
Interpretation of axes (environmental correlations)
Interpretation of orthogonality & variance explained
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4. Project Assignment – Peer Review
NOTE: These 5 re-analysis points count towards the analysis score.
Re-analysis: Do another analyses (ideally, hypothesis driven) after consulting with me
Report the standard outputs (listed in class) for the analysis you completed (2.5 points)
Write paragraph comparing results from both analyses (exploration vs hypothesis) (2.5 points)
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