From my website:

I am a quantitative ecologist interested in exploring various aspects of movement, abundance, survival and behavior of animals, both aquatic and terrestrial. I apply statistical and mathematical tools to explore behavioral complexity in movement data, responses to environmental cues, memory effects, and to model encounter rates. I try to develop theory on one side, inform analysis of data on the other, and bring the two together whenever possible.

Lately I’ve been trying to fit some hierarchical, structured movement models to large data sets of migrating animals - moving away from estimating individual parameters to population-level parameters. For this, MCMC with Stan has been invaluable (if - at times - frustrating!)