Most of my package development work relates to natural history museum collections, and germplasm repository work - especially seed banking. Essentially, I am always interested in decreasing the human workloads, while increasing the scientific merit of collections. All of this work relates heavily around spatial data science workflows. If I'm not doing that, then I'm probably making a package for or with a friend!
BarnebyLives &Repo
safeHavens & Repo
eSTZwritR & Repo
AugspurgerIndex
getGridmet
Using SDMs to find plant populations for native seed collection
Using SDMs to improve metagenomics results
I turn down a lot of talk invitations, but sometimes a very important person tells me I have to do one! And that's what we have three examples of here.
Modelling Natural History to Increase Native Seed Collection Efficiency; Space, Time, and Connectivity
A Spatial Data Specialist for SOS?
My Masters Defense
I love teaching, as a graduate student I had the priviledge of being a teaching assistant at Northwestern University's "R for Data Science" course for two quarters. This course was based on Hadley's excellent book of the same name and was hosted by the Programs in Earth and Planetary Science, Environmental Science, Plant Biology & Conservation. In my second year I taught a full week of the course focused on Spatial Data Science ;-)! I was also invited to do a guest lecture for the Plant Biolgy & Conservations course "Anaytical Toolbox for Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists".
Spatial Data Science in R
Species Distribution Models; an Introduction & repo
My professional teaching style can be described as a "firehose of flowers", i.e. a ton of exposure to complex information required to make quick decisions with. It is targeted for recent B.S., M.S. and Ph.D graduates, essentially people with a good head on their shoulders, but who have likely not been exposed to too much pragmatic decision making and troubleshooting. Essentially I try to provide them with a framework for categorizing their observations, and hopefully get them excited enough about the topics they take on the responsibility to further educate themselves on the topics.
A very quick introduction to vegetation assessments & repo
Geology, Geomorphology, and Soils, for early career botanists & repo
What's a Model and How do we Plan Hitches? & repo
What is Graduate School and how do you apply?
Identifying Leaves from Nest Cells
Assessment of Current Upland Vegetation Conditions in the Uncompahgre Field Office, Gunnison Gorge, and Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Areas & Umbrella Repo!