Slides

2023

Applying statistical thinking to palaeo data through generalized additive models: XXI INQUA Congress 2023, Rome, 13-20th July; 10.5281/zenodo.8186141 Slide deck Code
Loss of lake ice cover in northern hemisphere lakes: Circle U Climate Change & Water Seminar. Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany; 10.5281/zenodo.8007293 Slide deck Code
Quantifying trends in ecological data using GAMs: Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, March 8th; Slide deck Code

Detecting change in a dynamic world: School of Earth, Environment and Ecosystem Sciences Seminar Series, The Open University, 1st November; Slide deck Code
Quantifying trends in biodiversity with generalized additive models: Joint Ecological Society of America and Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Montreal, 14-19 August, 2022; 10.5281/zenodo.7003948 Slide deck Code
Detecting change in palaeoecological time series, old and new: PaleoEcoGen seminar series, online, 24th March; Slide deck Code Recording
Estimating trends in messy time series using generalized additive models: Statistics & Biostatistic Seminar Series, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, 10th March; Slide deck Code
Quantifying trends in biodiversity with generalized additive models: National Centre for Statistical Ecology seminar series, 9th February; 10.5281/zenodo.6033545 Slide deck Code
Generalized Additive Models with R and mgcv: Statistical Methods Seminar Series, Ecological Forecasting Initiative and Statistical Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America, 3rd January

Estimating trends in messy time series – a penalized spline approach: Econometrics and Business Statistics Seminar Series, Aarhus University, 17th November
Large Space Time Data: fitting spatio-temporal data using GAMs: Arctic Hub (Aarhus University, University of Gothenburg, University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham), 29th October
Going beyond the mean: using distributional models to estimate changing resilience: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, University of Copenhagen, 8th October
Estimating ecological resilience from poorly behaved time series: Aquatic Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science Techniques in Aquatic Research, 23-24 July, 2020

Learning when, where, and by how much, things change: New York Hack R, the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup
Estimating ecological resilience from poorly behaved time series: Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography and Society for Freshwater Science, Joint Summer Meeting 2020. (Conference Cancelled due to Covid-19.)
Estimating the time-varying correlation between time series using copula distributional models: Virtual International Statistical Ecology Conference (vISEC) 2020; Slide deck Code Recording

The life of a statistical ecologist: Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting, Regina, Canada
Estimating continuous measures of ecological resilience from palaeoecological time series: International Quaternary Association Congress 2019, Dublin, Ireland
Palaeolimnologists must rethink their approach to data analysis: PALS 2019, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Wiggly Things and Generic Resilience Indicators in Ecological Time series: Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ecological resilience in messy time series: Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Species associations and long-term dynamics in phytoplankton communities: Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2018, New Orleans, USA
Using topic models to describe disturbance & quantify responses to environmental change: International Statistical Ecology Conference 2018, St Andrews, Scotlan
Estimating rates and magnitudes of temporal change: Using generalized additive models with stratigraphic records: International Paleolimnology Symposium 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

Spatiotemporal variation in surface waters due to global environmental change: Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Using topic models to describe disturbance and quantify responses to environmental change in palaeoecological time series: Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, Portland, USA
Modelling trends, change points, and related features in palaeoenvironmental time series using generalised additive models: Department of Earth Sciences, University Adelaide, Australia

Estimating Temporal Change in Mean and Variance of Community Composition via Location Scale Additive Models: cological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, US
Estimating Temporal Change in Mean and Variance of Community Composition via Location Scale Additive Models: International Statistical Ecology Conference, Seattle, US

Patterns of Ecological Response to Environmental Change as Observed in Palaeoecological data: Ecological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, Baltimore, US
Patterns of Ecological Response to Rapid Environmental Change: Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Canada

Evidence of Rapidly Warming Rivers in the UK from an Extensive Additive Modelling Study at the National Scale Using R: Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union

Are remote fresh water ecosystems succumbing to the Nitrogen Cascade?: Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity’ conference, Edinburgh, UK, 16th - 18th November 2009

Identifying patterns of change in noisy water chemistry time series data: ICMS Workshop “Workshop on smoothing based and Gaussian-process-based methods for non-parametric regression in environmental problems”, 26-29th March 2007

Does size really matter? Effect of training set size on model performance and species estimates: Talk at seminar afternoon in honour of H.J.B. Birks