R Projects

Package Developement

ARUtools	Jan 2023 - Mar 2024 CWS Ontario’s preferred approach to sampling Boreal Birds Contributor for David Hope, Canadian Wildlife Service – Ontario Region (Ottawa, ON)
BASSr	Nov 2022 - Mar 2024 Facilitate the processing of ARU data and subsampling of recordings Contributor for David Hope, Canadian Wildlife Service – Ontario Region (Ottawa, ON)
bbsBayes / bbsBayes2	Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 Bayesian modelling of Breeding Bird Survey Data Contributor for Adam Smith, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Ottawa, ON)
fasstrshiny	Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 A Shiny app to analyze, summarize, and visualize daily streamflow data Contributor (Shiny App) for Jon Goetz, British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (Victoria, BC)
moosecounter	Sep 2021 - Present For conducting adaptive moose surveys Contributor (Shiny App) for Péter Sólymos, Analythium Solutions Inc. (Edmonton, AB)
bcgwlreports	Mar 2021 - Present Automatically creating HTML groundwater level reports for assessing potential flood and drought conditions Creator/Contributor for Jon Goetz, British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (Victoria, BC)
bcaquiferdata	Jan 2021 - Present Process BC Gov GWELLS data into formats more suitable for other analyses (e.g., Strater, Voxler, ArcHydro), including Shiny App. Creator/Maintainer for Christine Bieber, British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (Victoria, BC)
motus	Jan 2019 - Present Accessing MOTUS data Contributor/Maintainer for Denis LePage, Birds Canada (Port Rowan, ON)
naturecounts	Jan 2019 - Present Accessing data from the NatureCounts platform by Birds Canada Creator/Maintainer for Denis LePage, Birds Canada (Port Rowan, ON)
cavityuse	Aug 2018 - Present Detect use of cavities (caves, burrows, etc.) from geolocator data in a variety of animal species. Creator/Maintainer, Independent Development
rcaaqs	Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 Facilitate the calculation of air quality metrics according to the Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) Contributor for Stephanie Hazlitt, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
bcgroundwater	Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 Facilitate analysis and visualisation of groundwater data from the British Columbia Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network. Contributor for Stephanie Hazlitt, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
LITAP	May 2017 - Present Analysis of waterflow based on elevation data and pit removals Creator/Maintainer for Sheng Li, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Fredericton, NB)
bcgwcat	Jan 2017 - Present Provides easy access to EMS data as well as tools specific to those working with groundwater through R functions but also through a Shiny App user-interface Creator/Maintainer for Julie-Ann Ishikawa & Andarge Baye, British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (Victoria, BC)
weathercan	Jun 2016 - Present Peer-reviewed R package for downloading Canadian weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada. Part of rOpenSci Creator/Maintainer, Independent Development
feedr	Jan 2016 - Present Loading, transforming and visualizing RFID data created when pit-tagged animals are detected by RFID loggers Creator/Maintainer; Post-doctoral work for David Hill, Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)

R Script Development and Analysis

Assessing use of urban stopovers with Motus	Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 Barbara Frei, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Montreal, QC)
SO2, NO2, Ozone and PM2.5 CAAQS indicators	Feb 2022 - Mar 2022 Karly Harker, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
Fungi communities on ant mounds	Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 Wendy Untereiner, Brandon University (Brandon, MB)
BC Protected Areas Shiny App interactive map development	Mar 2021 - Mar 2021 Andy Teucher, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
Cavity use of red-headed woodpeckers	Jan 2021 - Aug 2022 Elena West, Audubon Society (Minneapolis, USA)
Rattlesnake hibernation	Dec 2020 - Oct 2021 Karl Larsen, Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)
Wireworms and temperature	Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 Bryan Cassone, Brandon University (Brandon, MB)
Bird song playback and SNR extraction	Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 Ken Otter, University of Northern BC (Prince George, BC)
Tutoring mixed models and power analysis	May 2020 - Jun 2020 Catherine Ortner, Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)
Migration in aerial insectivores and movements in Long-billed Curlews	Dec 2019 - Nov 2023 Matt Reudink, Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)
BC Groundwater levels indicator interactive map development	Oct 2018 - Oct 2018 Stephanie Hazlitt, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
Ozone and PM2.5 CAAQS indicators	Aug 2018 - Aug 2018 Stephanie Hazlitt, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (Victoria, BC)
Aquifer factsheets: R programming, tutoring and workshops	Nov 2017 - Present Julie-Ann Ishikawa & Andarge Baye, British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (Victoria, BC)
Physiological ecology of sedges	Sep 2017 - Jul 2020 Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University (Montreal, QC)
Population decline of aerial insectivores	May 2017 - Aug 2017 Joe Nocera, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB)
Bull trout Telemetry: Data cleaning, preparation, R training	Jan 2017 - Jan 2017 Ian Spendlow, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (Prince George, BC)
White-throated sparrow song variation (Citizen Science)	Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 Post-doctoral Researcher for Ken Otter, University of Northern BC (Prince George, BC)
Communication and noise in mountain chickadees	May 2015 - Sep 2015 Post-doctoral Researcher for Ken Otter, University of Northern BC (Prince George, BC)

R Workshops

2019-2024	Two-day Introduction to R (Instructor) Brandon University (Online, Brandon, MB)
2024	Introduction to using R Shiny Apps (Instructor) BC Government (Online)
2024	Two-day Introduction to R (Instructor) BC Government (Online)
2019, 2020, 2023	Intro to R through Figures (Instructor) The Wildlife Society (Online, Winnipeg, MB)
2023	Introduction to Rmarkdown/Quarto for Reproducibility (Instructor) Birds Canada (Online)
2022	Introduction to Rmarkdown/Quarto for Reproducibility (Instructor) Society of Canadian Ornithologists / Société des ornithologistes du Canada (Online)
2021	Intro to R through Figures (Instructor) University of Northern BC (Online)
2020	Two-day Introduction to R (Instructor) University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)

Other R-related work

rOpenSci Community Assistant

Feb 2020 - Present Assisting in the maintenance and development of the rOpenSci community Contracted for rOpenSci (Online)

See my CV for more details on Teaching R, and R Volunteering