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
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2022

Detecting change in a dynamic world
School of Earth, Environment and Ecosystem Sciences Seminar Series, The Open University, 1st November
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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
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Estimating trends in messy time series using generalized additive models
Statistics & Biostatistic Seminar Series, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, 10th March
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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

2021

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

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2011

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

2009

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

2007

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

2005

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

2004

Freshwater ecosystems: past, present and future
Environmental Statistics Study Group of the Royal Statistical Society