Win Cowger, PhD

@wincowger
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Researching #PlasticPollution to find solutions. I specialize in advancing knowledge of watershed transport processes and developing software and data analysis tools. #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenSource #BLM (he/him)

Contributing to @plasticpollution, @openspecy, @opendata, and @openscience groups.

Dev at www.openanalysis.org

websitehttp://www.wincowger.com
research gatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Win-Cowger
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orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9226-3104
Win Cowger, PhDOct 11, 2023
Zacharias SteinmetzSep 21, 2023

Fresh on CRAN: #rstats 📦 #envalysis 0.6.0 with a super simple workflow for analytical calibration curves. Check out https://zsteinmetz.de/envalysis/articles/calibration.html for all the details.

@rstats #analytics #chemistry

Calibration workflow

envalysis

Win Cowger, PhDSep 8, 2023
Zacharias SteinmetzSep 8, 2023

Today's #forschungaktuell features @cjweber and @mrillig at #dbg2023 on #microplastics in #soil.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mikroplastik-im-boden-was-bedeutet-es-fuer-das-pflanzenwachstum-dlf-0a5904dc-100.html

Mikroplastik im Boden: Was bedeutet es für das Pflanzenwachstum?

Deutschlandfunk
Win Cowger, PhDSep 7, 2023
Zacharias SteinmetzSep 5, 2023

#rstats 📦 #OpenSpecy 1.0 is now out on CRAN with tons of new features including better handling of spectral data, particle analysis, and an #AI classification algorithm 🥳

Check out our new man pages at http://wincowger.com/OpenSpecy-package/ for all the details. A polished #Shiny app is available here for review: https://wincowger.shinyapps.io/reviewer_app/

Shout out to @wincowger and everybody else involved in this massive team effort.

@openspecy @plasticpollution @rstats

#plasticpollution #microplastics

Analyze, Process, Identify, and Share Raman and (FT)IR Spectra

Raman and (FT)IR spectral analysis tool for plastic particles and other environmental samples (Cowger et al. 2021, <doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00123>). With read_any(), Open Specy provides a single function for reading individual, batch, or map spectral data files like .asp, .csv, .jdx, .spc, .spa, .0, and .zip. process_spec() simplifies processing spectra, including smoothing, baseline correction, range restriction and flattening, intensity conversions, wavenumber alignment, and min-max normalization. Spectra can be identified in batch using an onboard reference library (Cowger et al. 2020, <doi:10.1177/0003702820929064>) using match_spec(). A Shiny app is available via run_app() or online at <https://openanalysis.org/openspecy/>.

Win Cowger, PhDMar 7, 2023
Zacharias SteinmetzMar 6, 2023

Super excited to announce that our #F1000 collection on #plasticpollution in #terrestrial systems is now open for submissions:

👉 https://f1000research.com/collections/plasticterrestrialsystems/about-this-collection

Great team effort with @Microplastic_monica, @wincowger, @jasonhdavison, and Grace Pooley Deans 🙏

#microplastics #soil #openaccess #openscience #opendata @plasticpollution @Plastiverse @openspecy

About Plastic Pollution in Terrestrial Systems | Collections | F1000Research

Read the latest peer reviewed Plastic Pollution in Terrestrial Systems articles and more on F1000Research

Win Cowger, PhDFeb 27, 2023
Uwe SchnepfFeb 10, 2023

Ten simple rules for sound #laboratory work:

🧵

1: Label your samples.
2 - 10: Use the exactly same labels from the start of the experiment until the end of data analysis.

Why is it so hard to follow?

Win Cowger, PhDFeb 27, 2023
Michael ヘビ SteinwandterFeb 11, 2023

#Macrozoobenthos (here #Trichoptera larvae) in rivers of #SouthTyrol use #microplastic for their protective cases... 😞

Would be nice to make a study on the percentage of used plastic pieces or plastic area 🤔

Win Cowger, PhDFeb 27, 2023
Hadley WickhamFeb 24, 2023
dtplyr 1.3.0 is out now: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/02/dtplyr-1-3-0/! It no longer "steals" data.table methods for dplyr/tidyr, includes some dplyr 1.1.0 features, and some nice performance improvements. Big thanks to Mark Fairbanks and the other dtplyr maintainers who did all the work for this release. #rstats
dtplyr 1.3.0

dtplyr brings initial support for dplyr 1.1.0 features, new translations, and a breaking change.

Win Cowger, PhDFeb 26, 2023
@ProjectPhysX thought you might like this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co7WqqBIwoy/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
🔍DAILY DOSE OF ART🔎 on Instagram: "Satisfying slow mo? 1, 2, 3, or 4? Follow us 👉@art_dailydose👈 for more!🙌 Credit: 27717967404 on Douyin"

292K Likes, 1,801 Comments - 🔍DAILY DOSE OF ART🔎 (@art_dailydose) on Instagram: "Satisfying slow mo? 1, 2, 3, or 4? Follow us 👉@art_dailydose👈 for more!🙌 Credit: 27717967404 on Douyin"

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Win Cowger, PhDFeb 16, 2023
Dr. Imari Walker-FranklinFeb 7, 2023

Single use plastics and packaging comprises a large majority of plastic produced in 2021. 45 new chemical recycling facilities will be underway but the yield of recycled plastics produced is low.

Let’s hold producers accountable for the growing pile of #plasticpollution and #microplastics

Learn more at the Minderoo Plastic Waste Makers Index: https://www.minderoo.org/plastic-waste-makers-index/benchmarks/scorecards/

Scorecards | Plastic Waste Makers Index | The Minderoo Foundation

Scores of the top 50 polymer producers by circularity.

Win Cowger, PhDFeb 16, 2023
Show threadDr. Imari Walker-FranklinFeb 7, 2023

@sphakos Thank you for the warm welcome to mastodon! Yes, we need to protect our oceans from #plasticpollution

The nudibranch pic is amazing! My research project during my marine science degree was to study marine life that lived on algae (turbinaria ornata) and there would always be the cutest nudibranchs on them. Apparently I never saved any pics of the marine life during that research abroad but here is the algae that stole my research heart so much so that I wore it as a crown