This Fall Webinar Series welcomes Dr. Robert Carver. He will give a guest presentation. His topic is on using JMP effectively to prepare data for analysis. Join this guest webinar. You will be entered in a drawing to receive a free copy of Dr. Carver’s new book, Preparing Data for Analysis in JMP.

Register and mark your calendar! Fall webcasts include:

Sept 20th at 11am ET: Teaching Introductory Statistics
Sept 26th at 10am ET: JMP Basics for Professors and Students
Oct 5th at 2pm ET: Data Summary and Analysis
Oct 11th at 12PM ET: Teaching Engineering Statistics
Oct 24th at 11am ET: Teaching ANOVA and Regression
Oct 26th at 12pm ET: JMP Integration with SAS, R, Matlab…
Oct 31st at 11am ET: Preparing Data for Analysis with JMP (Guest Speaker)
Nov 2nd 10am ET: JMP Basics for Professors and Students
Nov 7th at 12pm ET: Teaching Basic Predictive Modeling
Nov 9th at 12pm ET: Teaching Advanced Predictive Modeling
Nov 13th at 11am ET: Data Summary and Analysis
Nov 14th at 10am ET: Teaching Design of Experiments
Nov 20th at 12pm ET: Scientific Workflow in JMP: Creating Reproducible Analyses
Nov 28th at 10am ET: Visualization and Graphics
Dec 6th at 12pm ET: Multivariate Analysis and Advanced Visualization
Dev 12th at 12pm ET: Teaching Statistics in the Health and Life Sciences
Register now

Who should participate?

Any student, graduate student, or professor looking to enhance their analytics capabilities–no matter which country you’re based in.

What can I expect from a JMP data analysis webcast?

You’ll learn how to get the most out of JMP. You’ll also see how various features can make data analysis easier, faster and more fruitful overall.
For additional webinar details, click here.

Can”t make it to a webcast? Please visit the JMP/SAS Academic Webinar Library for recorded versions of webinars:

Stay tuned for more events and don”t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Academic@JMP.com
877.594.6567
jmp.com/why

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(Image courtesy of BBC.)

Do you know what the word “biodiversity” means?

In 2010, the UN Year of Biodiversity, the BBC conducted a survey. The survey showed that most people don’t know the meaning of “biodiversity.” Most people thought it was a type of laundry powder. Consider that in perspective. Biodiversity loss is the biggest problem facing us today, alongside global warming. Yet most people don’t even know what the word means. How many could actually give a definition? Given that lack of understanding, we can take hope. We surveyed the world’s languages. We found that most have their own word for “biodiversity.”

How to translate the word “biodiversity”

We used Google Translate to convert the word “biodiversity” into 103 languages. It’s impressive and heartening to realize that interest in biodiversity is truly global. We did find a few gaps! There were a few languages for which we couldn’t find an equivalent word. Do you know of the word for biodiversity in any of those languages? If so, please let us know in the comments, and we’ll add it to the list. Also, if you know of any language not in the list, please let us know. Either contact us, or write your comment below.

How to listen to the translated word for “biodiversity”

For non-native speakers of some of these languages, their word for biodiversity seems like a real tongue twister. If you want to hear how it’s pronounced, type “biodiversity” into the first window in Google Translate. Click the speaker icon below the translated word. You will hear the translated spoken word. (Not all languages have this feature.)

Original translation data

Click for the spreadsheet. Biodiversity translated into world languages

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List of words for biodiversity in 103 languages

Afrikaans – biodiversiteit
Albanian – biodiversiteti
Amharic – ብዝሃ ሕይወት
Arabic – التنوع البيولوجي
Armenian – Կենսաբազմազանություն
Azerbaijani – bioloji müxtəliflik
Bangla/Bengali – জীব বৈচিত্র্য
Basque – biodibertsitatea
Belarusian – біяразнастайнасці
Bosnian – biodiverzitet
Bulgarian – биологичното разнообразие
Burmese – ဇီဝမျိုးစုံမျိုးကွဲများ
Catalan – biodiversitat
Cebuano – biodiversidad
Chinese (Mandarin) – 生物多样性
Corsican – a biodiversità
Croatian – bioraznolikosti
Czech – biodiverzity
Danish – biodiversitet
Dutch – biodiversiteit
English – biodiversity
Esperanto – biodiverseco
Estonian – bioloogiline mitmekesisus
Filipino – biodiversity
Finnish – biodiversiteetti
French – biodiversité
Galacian – biodiversidade
Georgian – ბიომრავალფეროვნება
German – biodiversität
Greek – βιοποικιλότητα
Gujarati – જૈવવિવિધતા
Haitian Creole – divèsite biyolojik
Hausa – bambancin halittu
Hawaiian – nā meaola like’oleHebrew – המגוון הביולוגי
Hindi – जैव विविधता
Hmong – biodiversity
Hungarian – a biológiai sokféleség
Icelandic – líffræðileg fjölbreytileik
Igbo – Ụdị ndụ dị iche iche
Indonesian – keanekaragaman hayati
Irish – bithéagsúlacht
Italian – biodiversità
Japanese – 生物多様性
Javanese – keanekaragaman hayati
Kannada – ಜೀವವೈವಿಧ್ಯ
Kazakh – Биоәртүрлілік
Khmer – ជីវចំរុះ
Korean – 생물 다양성
Kurdish – biyanîparêz
Kyrgyz – биологиялык ар түрдүүлүк
Lao – ຊີວະນາໆພັນ
Latin – biodiversitatis
Latvian – bioloģiskā daudzveidība
Lithuanian – biologinė įvairovė
Luxembourgish – biodiversitéit
Macedonian – Биодиверзитет
Malagasy – harena voajanahary
Malay – biodiversitiMalayalam – ജൈവവൈവിദ്ധ്യം
Maltese – bijodiversità
Maori – te koiora
Marathi – जैवविविधता
Mongolian – Биологийн төрөл зүйл
Nepali – जैव विविधता
Norwegian – biologisk mangfold
Nyanja – zachilengedwe
Pashto – ژوندی تنوع
Persian – تنوع زیستی
Polish – różnorodności biologicznej
Portuguese – biodiversidade
Punjabi – ਜੀਵ ਵਿਭਿੰਨਤਾ
Romanian – biodiversitatea
Russian – биоразнообразия
Samoan – meaola eseese
Scottish Gaelic – bith-iomadachd
Serbian – Биодиверзитет
Shona – biodiversity
Sindhi – حياتي تنوع
Sinhala – ජෛව විවිධත්වය
Slovak – biodiverzita
Slovenian – biotske raznovrstnosti
Somali – kala duwanaanta bay’ada
Southern Sotho – mefuta-futa ea lihloliloeng
Spanish – biodiversidad
Sundanese – biodiversiti
Swahili – biodiversity
Swedish – biologiska mångfalden
Tajik – Гуногунии биологӣ
Tamil – பல்லுயிர்
Telugu – జీవవైవిధ్యం
Thai – ความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพ
Turkish – biyoçeşitlilik
Ukrainian – Біорізноманіття
Urdu – جیو ویو
Uzbek – bioxilma-xillik
Vietnamese – Đa dạng sinh học
Welsh – bioamrywiaeth
Western Frisian – biodiversity
Xhosa – eziphilayo
Yiddish – ביאָדיווערסיטי
Yoruba – oniruuru ipinsiyeleyele
Zulu – eziphilayo

Do these languages have a word for biodiversity?

Cambodian
Fiji
Quechua
Tatar
Tibetan
Tonga

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The students are organizing a teach-in, the Miss Martha Biodiversity Project, to honor Martha, the very last Passenger Pigeon who died on September 1, 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo.

The National Biodiversity Teach-In is a multi-class project, being held September 21-27, 2014. The purpose of the event is to raise national awareness of the importance of biodiversity and its protection, with the ultimate goal of having President Obama proclaim 2014 the “Year of the Passenger Pigeon”.

Student Chairs Karla, Sarah, Abbey and Miranda plan to reach this goal by organizing informational webinars, field experiences and volunteer opportunities.

The students are looking for help from scientists, educators, artists and media professionals to support their efforts. The students are open to any ideas but are looking for your help:

• Do you have expertise in any aspect of Biodiversity and can provide a webinar?
• Are you willing to organize a field experience at a local nature center to highlight the vast and unique biodiversity of your region?
• Could you organize an event in which volunteers could help protect or enhance biodiversity?
• Are you an artist, an author, a poet or a musician who could organize an event or activity to highlight the importance of biodiversity for inspiring creativity?

The students are looking mainly for two possible activities:

1) Presenters to provide webinars during the week of September 22-26th on any biodiversity topic. The organizers want the webinars to last 60 minutes and to be aimed at a student audience, otherwise it is left up to you. The presenter can select the date, the time, length, the topic and the audience. The webinar service that will allow for 3000 participants and also for interaction via Q and A. If you already have a cool presentation for pre-k through first graders you could present that and the school will advertise the webinar to those age groups. If you find little kids a bit scary, and you want to present to high school students or adults, that is fine too.

2) Educators to offer biodiversity experiences through out the country. You could host an onsite hike or talk about your projects or research on Sunday, September 21 or Saturday, September 27th. This event could be anything related to biodiversity, such as stewardship opportunities, nature hikes or photography. The organizers’ vision for these two days is to get people out and enjoying the biodiversity in their communities.

The website is offering interested organizations a listing on their Resource Page.

For more details about the students’ project, visit their website http://nationalbiodiversityteachin.com/

Here’s the contact information for any questions or to let the students know how you can support their projects.
Elgin High School
Environmental Science Program
1200 Maroon Drive
Elgin, Illinois 60120
847-888-5100 ext 8160

Contact: Deb Perryman, email: debbieperryman@u-46.org
Facebook: Miss Martha The Passenger Pigeon
Twitter: @MissMartha1914

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