Time for a blog

I've started this blog mainly as a place to post the various things I do with computers at my job. I am a postdoctoral associate in the Geography Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Though I work in a Geography department right now, I am really an ecologist. Specifically, I am a quantitative community ecologist. I think about how and why species occur together. The "quantitative" part of that description just means that I typically answer ecological questions with the tools of mathematics, computer simulation modelling, and statistics.

Anyway, I think a lot about the best ways to analyze and present ecological data, and people constantly ask me questions about it. I hope this blog can be a "pre-emptive strike" for answering these questions. I plan to post lots of source code and comment on my own particular style of doing things. Take what you like. Leave the rest.