csim063,Craig Simpkins,github

Hi there, I am Dr. Craig Simpkins 👋

I am an ecologist and data scientist with a passion for ecology and the environment as well as for cool software

🔭 I’m currently working as a Senior Spatial Bioinformation Analyst for Auckland Council
🌱 I’m currently learning everything I can, with a focus on expanding my machine learning and AI knowledge
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on projects focussed on ecology, environmental science, or sustainability, though am keen to help on any interesting projects
🤔 I’m looking for help with joining the open source community
💬 Ask me about anything landscape or population ecology related
⚡ Fun fact: I am a pretty decent flat water kayaker

Languages & Tools

Craig Simpkins's Projects

Provides tools for the calculation of common biodiversity indices from count data. Additionally, it incorporates bootstrapping techniques to generate multiple samples, facilitating the estimation of confidence intervals around these indices.

coding_resources

A simple list of resources to help readers learn:

csim063.github.io

Personal webpage built using Jekyll template

intro_to_r_data

Basic and informal introduction to types of data that can be used in R and how to work with them

kea_human_wildlife_conflict

Data and code needed to redo the analyses described in Kennedy et al. (2020), as well as an RMarkdown file used to recreate the manuscript (and figures) itself

landscapetools

📦 R package for some of the less-glamorous tasks involved in landscape analysis 🌏

nrt_forest_model_jl

Re-implementation of a spatially explicit (grid-based) model of NZ forest dynamics - see Morales et al. 2017 (doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.04.007) and Brock et al. 2020 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13305). Runs in Julia using Agents.jl