Biography

I work as a quantitative ecologist within the Land Use Group in the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. I started there in March 2020, working on a mix of data analysis on a variety of ecological field surveys and statistical methods development. This includes analysis of long term trends in the vegetation and soils of British woodlands, developing an R package for joint species distribution models (jsdmstan), and working on various data integration problems.

My PhD was in soil ecology at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Bangor University. I looked at the relationships between soil structure, biodiversity and health - which is a fancy way of saying that I did a lot of disparate analyses! Most of this work was using data from the field survey within Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) which surveyed sites across Wales for a wide variety of properties. I also looked at the impact of simulated climate change on microbial communities in an upland heathland site maintained by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

The main reason for building this website originally was to store copies of the tutorials I wrote for the R club I ran in Bangor. They’re currently stored under tutorials, and I hope someone finds them useful!