Ethan studies data-intensive problems in ecology including ecological forecasting and using high resolution remote sensing to understand individual level patterns in ecological systems at large scales. He is actively involved in computational training efforts as a Data Carpentry co-founder, former Executive Committee member of The Carpentries, and lead developer of the semester long Data Carpentry course.
Ethan’s research interests include the use of large datasets, machine learning, and remote sensing to understand and make forecasts for the dynamics of ecological systems at large scales.
Interests
- Environmental Data Science
- Ecological Forecasting
- Community Ecology
Education
PhD in Biology, 2004
University of New Mexico
BA in Biology, 1998
Colorado College
Latest
- Capturing long-tailed individual tree diversity using an airborne imaging and a multi-temporal hierarchical model
- Forecasting rodent population dynamics and community transitions with dynamic nonlinear models
- Continental-scale hyperspectral tree species classification in the United States National Ecological Observatory Network
- Data Carpentry for Biologists: A semester long Data Carpentry course using ecological and other biological examples
- More individuals or specialized niches? Distinguishing support for hypotheses explaining positive species--energy relationships
- portalcasting: Supporting automated forecasting of rodent populations
- A benchmark dataset for canopy crown detection and delineation in co-registered airborne RGB, LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery from the National Ecological Observation Network
- A remote sensing derived data set of 100 million individual tree crowns for the National Ecological Observatory Network
- Disentangling the roles of inter and intraspecific variation on leaf trait distributions across the eastern United States
- Estimating individual-level plant traits at scale
- Evaluating probabilistic ecological forecasts
- Randcrowns: A quantitative metric for imprecisely labeled tree crown delineation
- Rdataretriever: R Interface to the Data Retriever
- A benchmark dataset for individual tree crown delineation in co-registered airborne RGB, LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery from the National Ecological Observation Network
- A simulation study of the use of temporal occupancy for identifying core and transient species
- Automated data-intensive forecasting of plant phenology throughout the United States
- Cross-site learning in deep learning RGB tree crown detection
- DeepForest: A Python package for RGB deep learning tree crown delineation
- Developing theory about the predictability of nature: What, where, when and how?
- Influence of climate forecasts, data assimilation, and uncertainty propagation on the performance of near-term phenology forecasts
- Matching the forecast horizon with the relevant spatial and temporal processes and data sources
- Ten simple rules for a successful remote postdoc
- Comparison of large-scale citizen science data and long-term study data for phenology modeling
- Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data
- Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study
- Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities
- Geographic generalization in airborne RGB deep learning tree detection
- Hotspot prioritizations show sensitivity to data type
- Ocean Science for a Healthy Planet
- portalr: an R package for summarizing and using the Portal Project Data
- Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study
- Evaluating a near term ecological forecast of plant phenology
- Forecasting biodiversity in breeding birds
- Forecasting biodiversity in breeding birds using best practices
- NEON Resources for Your Research
- No general relationship between mass and temperature in endothermic species
- Prediction and forecasting of portal fauna via particle filtration
- The prevalence and impact of transient species in ecological communities
- The proportion of core species in a community varies with spatial scale and environmental heterogeneity
- Weak impacts of climatic factors on intraspecific body size variation in endothermic species
- An extensive comparison of species-abundance distribution models
- Comparing process-based and constraint-based approaches for modeling macroecological patterns
- Elevating the status of code in ecology
- A process-independent explanation for the general form of Taylor’s law
- A strong test of the maximum entropy theory of ecology
- Comparing snapshot methods, time series analysis, and simple bench marks for forecasting biodiversity
- Exploring the spatially explicit predictions of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology
- Some thoughts on best publishing practices for scientific software
- Macroecology before Macroecology
- An empirical evaluation of four variants of a universal species--area relationship
- Data Sharing in Ecology and Evolution
- How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance
- Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re) use your data
- Opposing mechanisms drive richness patterns of core and transient bird species
- The case for open preprints in biology
- The EcoData retriever: improving access to existing ecological data
- Characterizing species abundance distributions across taxa and ecosystems using a simple maximum entropy model
- Methodological tools
- Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities
- On the use of log-transformation vs. nonlinear regression for analyzing biological power laws
- Simple structural differences between coding and noncoding DNA
- Species composition and abundance of mammalian communities
- Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients
- Complex dynamics of rodent response to precipitation in the Chihuahuan Desert
- Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness
- Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents
- Measures of journal quality should separate reviews from original research
- The combined influence of the local environment and regional enrichment on bird species richness
- Changes in a tropical forest support metabolic zero-sum dynamics
- Evaluating scaling models in biology using hierarchical Bayesian approaches
- Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals
- The combined influence of the local environment and regional enrichment on bird species richness
- On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions
- On the relationship between mass and diameter distributions in tree communities
- Zero sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly
- Challenges in the application of geometric constraint models
- Ecological correlates of geographical range occupancy in North American birds
- Effects of population-level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species--time relationship in two desert communities
- Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology
- Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes andimplications
- A comparison of the species
- A comparison of the species--time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups
- Comment on "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories"
- Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply
- Disparity between range map-and survey-based analyses of species richness: patterns, processes and implications
- Dynamics of species invasions: Insights into the mechanisms that limit species diversity
- Evidence for a general species--time--area relationship
- Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents
- The template: patterns and processes of spatial variation
- Factors affecting bat house occupancy in Colorado
- Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community
- Trade-offs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community
- Two-phase species--time relationships in North American land birds
- Was a ‘hyperdisease’responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction?
- Effects of range size on species--area relationships
- Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use
- Effects of recording media on echolocation data from broadband bat detectors