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I’m a landscape ecologist interested in the development and application of theory that improves our understanding of biological diversity
Please see my research and publications sections to see what I’ve been up to.
My current research foci:
News:
(04/11/12) – Our new manuscript, “Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data” is in review at Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. The preprint is posted here, please leave us comments here.
(03/23/12) – The Software Carpentry Bootcamp at USU went off without a hitch. I had a blast organizing the event and teaching along side Ethan White and Cait Pickens. Thanks to all the scientists that came out to make this a fun and engaging weekend. The teaching materials are located here.
(03/08/12) – I have been invited to participate in the ESA Scaling UP: Population and Community Ecology Workshop for Early Career Scientists
(07/22/12) – I’m presenting a poster entitled Testing the Spatial Predictions of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology at the Gorden Conference Metabolic Basis of Ecology
(05/31/12) – I am a guest blogger at Software Carpentry the title of my post is: Dictionaries are a Scientist’s Friend
(04/18/12) – my new Ecology manuscript is in press!
(01/04/12) – Vario, my first R package, is launched and is now publicly available. See my post about the package here.
(11/10/11) – Off to NESCent for the second meeting of Tempo and mode of plant trait evolution: synthesizing data from extant and extinct taxa. Thanks to GBIF and WorldClim I’ve got lots of species distribution and climate data to examine.
(8/04/11) – Heading out to Austin, TX for the ESA Meeting, come to my talk on Tuesday on community assembly (pdf)!
(7/18/11) – Our paper on the scaling of species turnover has been accepted in Ecology (preprint)!
(7/11/11) – Our paper on spectral rarefaction methods appears in a special issue on ecoinformatics of JVS (see Publications page for a copy)
(4/01/11) – I will be joining Ethan White’s Weecology research group as a postdoc next year at Utah State University!
(2/28/11) – I am currently participating in a NESCent working group: Tempo and mode of plant trait evolution: synthesizing data from extant and extinct taxa
(11/25/10) – Our paper on species richness relationships was accepted at Ecological Monographs (see Publications page for a copy)
(11/04/10) – A copy of my talk to the UNC Ecology curriculum on “Disentangling spatial structure in ecological communities” can be found here
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