Welcome. I am a theoretical, statistical, and computational ecologist at UC Berkeley. In ecology, I am interested in population dynamics: how and why populations change through time, which is important for conservation, management, and basic questions in ecology and evolution. In statistics and computation, I am interested in methods for fitting biologically structured models to ecological data.
Together with my research group of students and post-docs as well as many other collaborators, I have been involved in studying populations of birds, mammals, insects, fish, and trees. The generality of mathematical and statistical modeling has also brought me into fruitful collaborations on a wider array of wider ranging topics such as agricultural ecology, soil microbiomes, and phytochemical diversity.
A major project in recent years has been co-leading the NIMBLE project for hierarchical statistical modeling in R. This is a general statistical computing tool and is not specific to ecology.