Ecological Modelling

EEMB 179/279
Teaching Assistant

Image of code used to simulate populations of fished species with nested loops. The code is annotated with comments on how it is structured.

Example of a for() loop to simulate populations of fished species with nested loops.

Description

Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Level: Upper division undergraduate and graduate, 4 units

Role: Teaching Assistant
Quarters taught: Winter 2019, Winter 2020

In this course, students learn foundational theoretical models in ecology. I taught students how to implement models in code using R and RStudio. By the end of the course, students confidently 1) navigated RMarkdown structure, 2) knew how to write and execute models in R, and 3) presented their results from a final project in which they analyzed an existing theoretical model.