Dr. Owen Petchey
Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
Owen's research focuses on methods and experiments to ask questions about the causes and consequences of extinctions in a changing world. Projects include understanding food web structure and dynamics, spatial analyses of biodiversity and functional diversity. He has been using and teaching R for nine years, with expertise in multivariate statistics, spatial data, likelihood methods, programming, relational databases and advanced visualisation (graphs!).
Dr. Andrew Beckerman
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
Andrew's research is about scaling in ecology and evolution. What processes link behaviour, population dynamics, and community structure? Projects include the ecology and evolution of fear, understanding food web structure, and parrot conservation. He has been using and teaching R for nine years, with particular expertise in general and generalised linear models, survival analysis, and mixed effects models and programming.
Owen and Andrew have experience with Windows and OS X and are at least familiar with Mathematica, C, Matlab, Octave, Excel, Minitab, Systat, Sigmaplot, SAS, and GLIM.
However, we use only R.