Back in 2013 I published a post with a little function for creating presence-absence rasters from point data. I was in the midst of creating ~1000 species distribution models for Australian species and I needed something that I could easily … Con... [Read more...]

It’s been pretty quiet over here for a long time. But I have been busy beavering away at many interesting projects at NIWA, including a project where we developed a new method for identifying when your regression model is starting … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Christmas can be a stressful and expensive time of year, with many gifts to buy for many people. My family have tried to eliminate some of this stress by having a Secret Santa gifting system where we all buy one … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I recently had an email from a PhD student in Austria who had a raster showing the distribution of Douglas Fir in Europe and wanted to know what proportion of each European country was covered in this species. I have … Continue reading → [Read more...]