Teaching

As a member of research staff at the IECS and before that at the ECRC, UCL my day-to-day duties have not involved formal teaching commitments.

For many years I co-taught, and eventually convened, the ECRC’s Numerical Course with John Birks (Bergen).

Recently I developed an upper-level undergraduate & graduate course, Modelling Biological Data, with Mark Vanderwel (U Regina) where we emphasised likelihood and Bayesian approaches to modelling the kinds of data commonly encountered in biology, ecology, and environmental science.

I have taught many workshops and short courses on the analysis of ecological and palaeoecological data, often of an applied nature with a strong focus in the use of the R statistical software. Recent examples include

• Fitting Non-Linear Models in R with the mgcv Package

  This workshop was developed by David Miller, Noam Ross, Eric Pedersen, and myself and has been given at ESA meetings for a number of years.

• International Paleolimnology Symposium R Workshop

  This workshop was given on the weekend before the joint IPA-IAL meeting in Stockholm, June 15–17, 2018.

• An introduction to Generalized Additive Models with R

  This workshop was given at York University, October 17, 2017

• Advanced community data analysis using the vegan package in R

  This workshop was given for several years at ESA meetings, most recently in 2017.

• Applied statistics and R for palaeoecologists & paleaolimnologists

  This week-long short course was given at the University of Adelaide, February, 2017.