Andrew is a community ecologist and entomologist, and an applied statistician also. It is the passion for learning, practicing, and talking about statistics that led him into collaborations with scientists from many different fields. Andrew has extensive experience in collaboration and consulting, and now has experience building statistical models of animal behaviour, community composition, occupancy modelling, tree growth, and survey data from humans – to name just a few. He’s especially passionate about helping ecologists connect their theories and their data through expressive statistical models. His favourite tools to do this with are R, brms, and Stan. His goal is to improve our ability to make predictions for ecological systems, and to build a community of practice around statistical methods in ecology.
Education & Career
• PhD in Zoology (Experimental community ecology)
• MSc in Botany (Invasive species ecology)
• Instructor and consultant on a wide range of ecological topics.
Teaching & Skills
• Teaching topics including GLMs, nonlinear models, and hierarchical models – usually with a Bayesian perspective.
• Training and advice regarding reproducible workflows and open science.
• Experienced in collaboration and in developing statistical methods to combine theory with a specific dataset.
Links
Google scholar