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KrigR - State-of-the-Art Climate Data within R
Accessing and Referencing GBIF Data for Research
Statistical Rethinking - Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Bayesian Networks - Causality through Bayesian Approaches
Biostats 101 - An Introduction to Biostatistics
Biostats 301 - Excursions into Biostatistics
BFTP - First Steps in Macroecology in R
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2026
Connecting the Dots - Species Interactions in the Age of Big Biodiversity Data
An overview of how considerations ecological interactions enhance biodiversity projections motivating an exploration of how ecological networks can be statistically inferred and biodiversity research infrastructures levered to share them.
2026-09-03 15:00 — 17:00
Stockholm, Sweden
Erik Kusch
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Project
2025
High Hopes and Broken Dreams – The interplay of climate change, natural hazards, and the mortality of high mountain expeditions in the Nepal Himalayas
An overview of preliminary results analysing how mountaineering practices and climate/weather conditions have changed over time in the Nepalese Himalayas.
2025-04-30 11:35 — 11:45
Vienna, Austria
Erik Kusch
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Project
Video
2024
Statistical Downscaling & Geostatistical Interpolation of Climate and Weather Data
An overview of downscaling methodology for climate data.
2024-11-14 15:00 — 16:00
Oslo, Norway
Erik Kusch
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Project
Collaboration and Coordination Principles across the European Biodiversity Research Infrastructure Consortium
An overview of communication networks and guidelines across European Biodiversity Research Infrastructures.
2024-09-04 09:30 — 09:45
Okinawa, Japan
Erik Kusch
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Project
Updating Projections of Ecological Networks by Integrating Co-Extinction Resilience Mechanisms
A short presentation of how to incorporate resilience mechanisms into extinction cascade analyses.
2024-07-18 16:00 — 16:15
Swansea, United Kingdom
Erik Kusch
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Project
KrigR — A tool for downloading and statistically downscaling state-of-the-art climate reanalysis data
A poster detailing the workings of my R package KrigR.
2024-07-17 16:30 — 18:30
Swansea, United Kingdom
Erik Kusch
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Project
Project
Strings better left afray? - Investigating Accuracy of Ecological Network Inference using Demographic Simulations
A short presentation of how to investigate network inference accuracy.
2024-07-17 12:15 — 12:30
Swansea, United Kingdom
Erik Kusch
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Project
Advancing Climate Data Practices in Ecological Research
An introduction to my PhD work and ongoing research for colleagues at UFZ.
2024-07-04 13:00 — 14:00
Leipzig, Germany
Erik Kusch
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Project
Project
2023
Advancing Climate Data Practices in Ecological Research
A short summary of my findings and thoughts regarding how we use climate data in ecological research.
2023-12-07 13:00 — 14:00
Bristol, United Kingdom
Erik Kusch
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Project
Integrating Ecological Networks in Macroecological Research - Enhancing Projections of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
An introduction to my PhD work and ongoing research for colleagues at UiO.
2023-08-17 14:00 — 15:15
Oslo, Norway
Erik Kusch
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Project
Project
2022
KrigR — A tool for downloading and statistically downscaling climate reanalysis data
Another comprehensive overview of the
KrigR
package.
2022-06-06 11:00
Conference
Erik Kusch
PDF
Project
KrigR - Climate Data for your Study Needs
A practical guide to the
KrigR
package.
2022-06-06
Conference
Erik Kusch
PDF
Code
Project
Slides
Climate Data Pipelines for the 21st Century - Efficient Data Retrieval and Processing
A comprehensive overview of the
KrigR
package.
2022-02-24 11:00
Online Meeting
Erik Kusch
Project
Slides
2021
Data Simplification for Ecological Network Inference
A look at initial results of my second PhD chapter.
2021-12-13 11:00
Conference
Erik Kusch
Project
Slides
Statistical Education for Biologists
My personal musings on statistical education for biologists.
2021-09-09 16:00 — 2023-09-09 17:00
Oxford, United Kingdom
Erik Kusch
PDF
Coding Practices in R
Some of my ideas for how to improve coding practices that I presented to the SalGo-Team.
2021-07-08 10:00
Online Meetings
Erik Kusch
Code
Slides
2020
Species Associations Across Scales of Organisation
A presentation of my PhD plans to the SalGo-Team.
2020-12-03 16:00
Online Meetings
Erik Kusch
Project
Slides
KrigR - Downscaling State-of-the-Art Climate Data for Macroecologists
A web-based workshop to introduce the
R
-Package
KrigR
which introduces intuitive downloading and downscaling methods for ERA5(-Land) climate reanalysis data to
R
-users.
2020-11-12 13:00 — 16:00
Online Workshop
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
Project
Video
Intrinsic vegetation memory as a proxy of engineering resilience may be an oversimplification.
A poster about my recent vegetation memory in global dryland research I presented at ISEC 2020.
2020-06-25 11:00 — 12:00
Online Conference
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
,
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
,
Alistair Seddon
Project
Poster
KrigR - Climate Data for Your Spatial Study
A short introduction talk to my
R
-Package
KrigR
in its early development.
2020-06-25 10:30 — 10:45
Online Conference
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
Project
Slides
Video
2019
Identifying Ecological Memory Patterns in Drylands Using Remote Sensing and State-of-the-art Climate Reanalysis Products
A presentation about my recent vegetation memory in global dryland research I presented and won some awards for at ISEM 2019.
2019-10-04 13:00 — 13:15
Salzburg, Austria
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
,
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
,
Alistair Seddon
Project
Poster
Intrinsic vegetation memory as a proxy of engineering resilience may be an oversimplification.
A poster about my recent vegetation memory in global dryland research I presented and won some awards for at ISEM 2019.
2019-10-03 11:00 — 12:00
Salzburg, Austria
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
,
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
,
Alistair Seddon
Project
Poster
Inferring Vegetation Memory from Remote Sensing Data using novel Climate Reconstruction Products
The defense of my
M.Sc
thesis.
2019-07-05 12:30 — 13:15
Bergen, Norway
Erik Kusch
,
Richard Davy
,
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
,
Alistair Seddon
Code
Project
Slides
2017
Remote Sensing And Predicting Shifts In Biome Distribution And Resilience Using NDVI Data
The defense of my
B.Sc
thesis.
2017-02-24 12:30 — 13:00
Bergen, Norway
Erik Kusch
,
Alistair Seddon
Code
Poster
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