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 Tools for collecting digital data for herbarium specimens.
safeHavens & Repo Tools to help germplasm curators to prioritize areas for new accessions.
eSTZwritR & Repo A simple package for documenting and sharing empirical Seed Transfer Zones (STZs)
AugspurgerIndex Calculate Augspurgers Index of Synchrony
getGridmet download gridmet data to a computer near you
The Bureau of Land Management provides stewardship for the most public lands in the United States of any agency, roughly 1 in 8 acres of the US are managed by them. In the early 2010's they launched an initiative across all of this land to assess the current ecological integrity, inventory the plant life, which can provide a baseline for future monitoring efforts. Although several field offices have finished their first five-year sample design, few have written reports on their findings, and none as comphrehensively as we did at the UFO ;-) (Uncompahgre Field Office). This 99 page report details our findings in the context of the multiple use mandate, a management paradigm under which all public land uses must be catered to.
Assessment of Current Upland Vegetation Conditions in the Uncompahgre Field Office, Gunnison Gorge, and Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Areas & Umbrella Repo!
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? - Job Pitch
Estimating the size of the US Native Seed Market - Pitch
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".
- Day I
- Day II
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) take home lab activity
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 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?
This is a click along/set up tutorial for previous fieldworker crews I've had. It gives them some basic backgrounds on what a geographic information system (GIS) is, and helps them set up their work projects. It was my first time going to online, non-lecture based instruction.
Using QGIS
Using SDMs to find plant populations for native seed collection
Using SDMs to improve metagenomics results