User:Carl Boettiger

Contact Info



 * Carl Boettiger
 * My Webpage
 * [mailto:cboettig@gmail.com email me]
 * Twitter: @cboettig

I am a fourth year graduate student at the Center for Population Biology at University of California, Davis. I am a member of the Hastings lab, where my research covers several topics in theoretical ecology and evolution. I am funded by the Department of Energy Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship. More information about me is available on my webpage. I am using OpenWetWare to host my lab notebooks. My lab notebooks have since moved to a wordpress platform to leverage particular features, give a greater flexibility and a more permissive license. They remain open science notebooks. For more information, see the introduction to my lab notebook.

Publications


Background


Adaptive Dynamics
I focus primarily on influence of stochastic dynamics on the canonical equation and adaptive branching Boettiger2010. I spent the summer 2009 working with Ulf Dieckmann at IIASA calculating the waiting time until evolutionary branching. Also see my Mendeley collection on papers in Adaptive Dynamics.

Note: Links in topic titles will take you to my Lab Notebooks which have current overview of the research on the cover page and entries day by day.

Software

 * StochPop: Stochastic Population Dynamics. Under active development through github.
 * Comparative Phylogenetic Methods.
 * Fluctuation Domains in Adaptive Evolution. Download the R package accompanying Boettiger2010.

Teaching
Though due to my fellowship I have no TA positions, I am interested in effective approaches to teaching and learning, including model-based reasoning, peer learning, experiential learning, and the use of technology in education. I formerly served as TA and mentor for the collaborative learning at the interface of mathematics and biology (CLIMB) program. I am an active member of the Graduate Teaching Community at UC Davis, a network of graduate students and postdocs who meet weekly to discuss and practice approaches to education. You can follow our community on our blog. I also occasionally have the chance to teach a session in a seminar or group meeting, which I often use to test out ideas. I maintain a teaching notebook through openwetware to keep track of the successes and failures of the things I explore.


 * 1) GTC Blog
 * 2)  Teaching notebook

My Other Internet Habitats

 * Github Profile. Home to all my current software development.  Follow my activity and related projects, connect to other coders.
 * Mendeley Profile. Home to my literature collections.
 * FriendFeed/sciencefeed Aggregation of my reading, web activity. Several groups here are a great source of news on Science 2.0 tools and ideas.  Occasionally cc posts to my twitter.
 * Social bookmarking: google reader for journals and blogs, and delicious for other sites.  citeUlike.
 * Forums: biostar profile, stackoverflow profile, Ubuntu
 * General social networking sites: Profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook.
 * Academic social networking platforms: epernicus, researchGate, academia.edu. So far I haven't found these of any use.  profile at myExperiment, site for Bioinformatics workflows.
 * I follow and contribute to several technical help mailing lists, including help-gsl, r-sig-phylo, r-sig-ecology, r-sig-hpc
 * CSGF profile, my current fellowship.

Academic

 * I am helping create an Open Science Community at UC Davis. We are building our  group page around OpenWetWare.
 * Graduate Teaching Community
 * StatSciComp UC Davis based user group for statistical scientific computing in R.

Extra-Curricular

 * I'm a director on the board of the nonprofit Solar Community Housing Association, Davis CA.
 * I'm a trip leader for Sacramento Inner City Outings
 * I'm a guide with UC Davis Outdoor Adventures rock climbing, backpacking and winter programs.

Useful links

 * My Scientific Computing Resources Page
 * My page on ideas and resources for Open Science
 * My Calendar

User Contributions
My Contributions

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