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I am a theoretical ecologist and an assistant professor in the Biomathematics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University. I am a member of the Department of Statistics, an associate faculty in the Department of Zoology, and a member of NCSU's Ecology Graduate Group.
My research uses theoretical models and statistical tools to answer questions in population and community ecology. I am particularly interested in understanding the processes that govern the dynamics of multispecies assemblages. Multispecies dynamics is a topic that is interesting from a basic science perspective, and also touches on a number of timely applied questions, including biological control, conservation biology, and biodiversity change. This research has both a theoretical side that entails the development and analysis of mathematical models, and a statistical side that involves developing techniques to confront theory with data.
John Tukey famously said that one of the attractive aspects of being a statistician was getting to play in everyone's backyard. I think the same holds true for being a theoretical ecologist. I collaborate with colleagues who study a variety of taxa, and enjoy doing so enormously.
