¡Välkommen y bom dia monde!

Welcome to my corner of the ’web!

This site exists mainly to house links to my course webpages as well as various tutorials, presentations, and other useful resources.

If you’d like to know more about me, please check out my CV. There you can find my contact information should you like to be in touch!

Courses

The following are courses that I used to teach at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the Department of Environmental Conservation.

• Analysis of Environmental Data

• Introduction to Quantitative Ecology

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

• Spatial Data Analysis in R

Other UMass links

• Quantitative Sciences Group

• Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• My faculty page at UMass

Info and Coding Demos

Here is a collection of short demos of important concepts and how to perform some common tasks in R and beyond:

• Saving a figure to a file in R/RStudio

• Info about CSV files

• Using the here package

• Convert an existing folder to a git repository with GitHub Desktop

For Gradulate Students

This page contains resources and study guides for graduate students, loosely divided into categories.

• If I’m on your committee, I’ll expect you to know the concepts from one or more of the categories on this page. We will meet individually to discuss those topics most pertinent to your research.

Presentations: Slides and Resources

• Working With Spatial Data in R - Apr 13, 2022 UMass Amherst
• Slides for my presentation about invasive species for sale and their relationship with climate change to the city of Gardiner NY.
  • The invaders for sale portion of the talk was based on Eve Beaury’s article Invaders for Sale. If you’d like to read the article, but find yourself stuck behind a paywall, contact me.
• Slides for a presentation I gave to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) about invasive species and climate change.