Articles by Heather Bean
Correction to “Addressing Missing Data in GC × GC Metabolomics: Identifying Missingness Type and Evaluating the Impact of Imputation Methods on Experimental Replication”
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Current Limitations of Staph Infection Diagnostics, and the Role for VOCs in Achieving Culture-Independent Detection
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessReview by Carrie L. Jenkins 1,2 and Heather D. Bean 1,3,* 1 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 2 Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 3 Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, the Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Using the Three Cs of Data Visualization as a Life Raft When You’re Drowning in Multidimensional Chromatography Peaks
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) is being utilized with increasing frequency for untargeted metabolomics analysis, especially for volatile metabolites, which has enabled the rapid expansion of volatile metabolite catalogs for microbes, plants, animals, and humans.
Pandemic highlights importance of supports for people with dementia | Waterloo News
Laura Middleton became passionate about Alzheimer’s research after a much-loved aunt was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at age 47. “Her daughters were 12, 14 and 16, and she was my mom’s best friend, so it had a huge impact on our family,” says Middleton, a Kinesiology and Health Sciences professor in the Faculty of Health. “I was interested initially in strategies to help reduce the risk of developing dementia.
Being Indigenous and having “reconciliation” in your job description | Waterloo News
Savanah Seaton Graduate Student, Faculty of Arts > Waywayseecappo First Nation > Industrial-Organizational Psychology Savanah Seaton had worked hard to build working relationships — and trust — between the governments of three First Nations and the City of Vancouver. So her heart sank when she got a call that workers had dug in the zone of an ancestral burial ground, again.
After the flood: 49 reasons your community may be more vulnerable | Waterloo News
When a flood hits a Canadian community and rising waters wash out roads, governments at all levels respond with heroic evacuations of vulnerable residents and emergency food and shelter. Jason Thistlethwaite Professor, Faculty of Environment > JBA Risk Management > Climate Risk Research Group (CRRG) But what are the hidden costs to communities when flood waters recede, and why are some left devastated while others rebound? “We know how much it costs to rebuild a washed-out road.
Repeat After Me...
How committed are we to reproducibility in science? Heather Bean | 10/29/2019 | Opinion The institutions funding our research and journals publishing our discoveries make, almost without exception, a seemingly simple request: make your science reproducible. Why? Because we owe it to the taxpayers – who often foot the bill – to make the best possible use of their money, and we owe it to our colleagues to ensure that they can trust our conclusions.
A mental health tool kit for millennials | Waterloo Stories
Before Tina Chan began her Health Studies degree at the University of Waterloo, she had never pictured herself as an entrepreneur. “I had zero interest in entrepreneurship before I connected with the Waterloo community,” Chan laughs. “None at all!” The Faculty of Applied Health Sciences student had a driving passion was for mental health, not business development. But Waterloo’s startup incubation ecosystem isn’t only about tech: it also fosters social change.
Solar energy for remote communities around the world | Global Impact
A few years into her undergraduate degree, Kayla Hardie found her calling: “I realized I wanted to help the world mitigate and adapt to climate change.” With graduation in a combined degree of physics and computer science still a year away, Hardie has a solid head start on her goal. Working with Srinivasan Keshav, a professor in Waterloo’s David R.
A bridge between Indigenous knowledge and NASA | Global Impact
Funding announcement: University of Waterloo has recently announced additional financial incentives totalling $1.5 million to encourage the continued development of Canadian graduate research. The funds are available for both domestic (Canadian and Permanent Resident) PhD and research Master’s students beginning their studies in fall 2019. Full details on funding and eligibility by faculty can be found on Discover Graduate Studies.
Satellite images show loss of polar ice over 10-year period | Global Impact
There’s a visceral difference between reading a list of figures that tell you polar ice is melting, and actually watching it disappear. Julie Friddell, director of the Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN) and Polar Data Catalogue (PDC), says that’s the reason the PDC has developed a series of animated GIFs to illustrate more than ten years of Antarctic ice loss. “We want to reach all kinds of people. A visualization is easier to digest than tables and rows of data,” says Friddell.
Data-driven 3D maps that inform homeowners of flood risks | Global Impact
Due to climate change, flooding has now replaced fire as the greatest risk to Canadian property owners. Homeowners pay close to $600 million out of pocket annually for flood damage. But as flood risk intensifies every year, most Canadians have no idea they’re at risk, and even fewer know what to do to protect their most valuable asset.
Artificial intelligence helps water utilities make decisions | Global Impact
In Canada, 2017 may have been a year of floods, but Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor still has his eye on the long-term, global picture: fresh water is a scarce resource, and it’s getting scarcer. “California and the Middle East are dealing with drought; India and China deal with large amounts of pollution. Here in Canada we have an abundance, but it doesn’t mean we’re immune to some of these challenges,” says Gaffoor, who holds an MASc from Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering.
Scientists create image of the cosmic web that links galaxies | Global Impact
Waterloo scientists have created the first composite image of the cosmic web of filaments that link galaxies. The filaments are mostly composed of dark matter, a mysterious substance that doesn’t shine, absorb or reflect light and comprises about 25 per cent of the universe. Although it can’t be seen, dark matter has a gravitational pull that affects the path of light, causing the images of distant galaxies to warp.
Creating safe places on campus for LGBTQ+ people
The University of Waterloo is home to Canada’s oldest LGBTQ+ student organization: today, it’s known as the GLOW Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity. But when Corey Johnson joined the Recreation and Leisure Studies program as a professor in 2015, he was surprised to learn that the university didn’t yet have an LGBTQ+ ally program in place. Luckily, he met Jeremy Steffler, a Waterloo grad and employee, and together they saw potential.
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