Eli Holmes

I'm a population biologist and I develop analytical tools for population viability analysis (PVA) and lately I spend a lot of time trying to understand the nature of variability in population data -- on a general theoretical and empirical level. Go here for my my website. I have been fascinated with the open-source and open-collaboration movement in computer science and how this has changed code development. Some examples that are especially intriguing to me are apache.org, wiki.org, and drupal.org. In my spare time, I'm exploring the idea of open-collaboration in science. Iugo-cafe is the result of these efforts. Contact Eli

Ben Weintraub

I am a computer science student at the University of Washington in Seattle. My particular interests include web applications, computer security, and 802.11 networking. Recently, I've become interested in designing web applications using the AJAX approach, and I hope to incorporate this into minnow, a software tool which will build upon the lessons learned from the development of chinook. For this project, I've drawn inspiration and ideas from several projects and web applications, including drupal, del.icio.us, and flickr. Contact Ben

Brice Semmens

I work primarily on issues in spatial ecology, community assembly, and population viability – all under a conservation biological umbrella. I enjoy fieldwork, and I enjoy the challenge of tackling the data that results. Much of my field work involves advanced techniques such as passive acoustics, GPS, and radio acoustic positioning and telemetry (RAPT). Quantitatively, I am a ‘jack of all trades’, although recently I have been dabbling heavily in Bayesian statistics, hierarchical models, and state-space methods (e.g. Kalman filters, particle filters, etc). This dabbling has resulted in the development of two GUI programs:

1. MixSIR, a Bayesian stable isotope mixing model that fully incorporates uncertainly in isotopic signatures
2. DARTER (Diffusion Approximation Tools for Extinction Risk Estimation), a Bayesian state-space model of time series population data that includes a set of robust extinction risk metrics

Both these tools and their supporting documentation can be downloaded through another recent project, Greenboxes, an on-line community designed to facilitate collaboration and code sharing among quantitative conservation biologists and ecologists.
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