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<h2>Statistical Ecologist</h2>
<p>I am currently an PhD Candidate at Carleton University, co-supervised
by Drs <a href="https://carleton.ca/biology/people/adam-smith/">Adam
Smith</a> and <a
href="https://carleton.ca/biology/people/joseph-bennett/">Joe
Bennett</a>. My research focuses on broad-scale estimates and drivers of
detectability in North American landbirds. I am the lead analyst on the
<a href="http://na-pops.org/">NA-POPS project</a>, which is seeking to
develop an open-access database of detectability functions to account
for biases in bird detectability during on- and off-road point count
bird surveys. I use R and Stan to develop multi-species Bayesian
hierarchical removal and distance models to generate estimates of a bird
species’ availability and detectability, given a number of seasonal and
spatial covariates.</p>
<p>In 2020, I completed my <strong>BSc in Mathematical Science</strong>
in the <em>Statistics</em> stream, with an emphasis in Computer Science
at the <a href="https://www.uoguelph.ca/">University of Guelph</a>. My
honours thesis, supervised by <a
href="https://danielgillis.wordpress.com/">Dr Daniel Gillis</a>,
compared typologies of the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) within
the context of generalized spatial Poisson mixture models.</p>
<p>Throughout my undergraduate career, I worked as an Undergraduate
Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr Gillis and <a
href="https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/jacobs">Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs</a>. I
developed the Great Lakes Piping Plover Biological Modeling Program,
which seeks to create <a
href="https://github.com/BrandonEdwards/melodus">tools</a> to assist in
management and recovery of Great Lakes piping plovers (<em>Charadrius
melodus circumcinctus</em>). You can read more about an 8-month co-op
term <a href="wt1.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>I also completed a <a href="wt3.html">4-month co-op term</a> working
as a Bird Population Monitoring Analyst at Environment and Climate
Change Canada in Summer 2018. In that position, I tested the use of
generalized additive mixed-models for improving status and trend
estimates of North American breeding birds, and developed the R package
<a href="software.html#bbsBayes">bbsBayes</a>.</p>
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<div id="amateur-naturalist-nature-photographer" class="section level2">
<h2>Amateur Naturalist & Nature Photographer</h2>
<p>When I’m not in front of a computer screen writing code, I am
exploring the world around me. My main passion lies in ornithology, and
my free time is often spent birding. I contribute as much of my birding
as I can to citizen science; you can find my eBird profile <a
href="https://ebird.org/profile/NjA1NTU0/CA-ON">here</a> (you may need
an eBird account)! Birding with people of many other interests has
allowed me to expand my own interests into the world of herps, moths,
odes, and wildflowers.</p>
<p>While statistics and computer science will be at the forefront of my
academic research, I hope to also be able to contribute to natural
history research through my amateur field observations.</p>
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<h2>Contact Me</h2>
<p><strong>Email</strong>: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]"
class="email">[email protected]</a></p>
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