About Us

We are a group of ecologists, statisticians and everything in between, with interests in Open Science, reproducibility and transparency in Ecology.

Aud H. Halbritter

I am a researcher in plant ecology at the University of Bergen (Norway) interested in global change impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem functions. I have co-developed bioST@TS, an online teaching and learning platform on data processing and reproducible workflows. I also develope tools for reproducible workflows and quantitative analysis, and have initiated and lead this early career course on Open Science.

Matt Grainger

I am a researcher at NINA (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) interested in evidence-based conservation and in metascience (“the science of science”). I am a part of the Living Norway Ecological Data Network and within that project focus on developing tools (e.g. R packages, Shiny Apps, etc.) and workflows to help researchers share their data openly and to make use of open data in their research. I am a member of the ESHackathon, an interdisciplinary community of practice making evidence-based decisions easier to achieve through opensource software, and SORTEE (Society for Open, Repeatable and Transparent Ecology and Evolution).

Dag Endresen

I am the node manager for GBIF Norway, the Norwegian participant node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, based at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. I work on biodiversity informatics, including data standards and open publication of biodiversity data, and I teach people how to publish and use those data. Before joining the museum I worked at the GBIF secretariat and at the Nordic Genetic Resources Center.

Michal Torma

I am a head engineer at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, and a data steward at GBIF Norway. I publish biodiversity data, teach people how to work with it, and help digitise metadata from the museum collections. My background is in environmental science and programming.

Stefanie Muff

I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. I am collaborating with biologists and ecologists on a regular basis and is therefore having an intrinsic interest in open and reproducible science.

Richard J. Telford

I am a palaeoecologist at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. I am interested in quantitative palaeoecology, keen to make research in ecology and palaeoecology more reproducible and the organiser of R-klubben, a drop-in peer-to-peer R help session at the Department of Bioscience at UiB.

Erlend B. Nilsen

I am a professor at Nord University. I am an applied quantitative ecologist, working mainly with bird and mammal populations and with how climate, harvest and land use affect them. I initiated the Living Norway Ecological Data Network, which works to make ecological data open and reusable, and I am interested in how we look after ecological data so that other researchers and society can use it.

Joe Chipperfield

I am a researcher at NINA. I work on statistical ecology, including species distribution models and ways to estimate wildlife abundance from spatial capture-recapture data. I also develop tools for open biodiversity data, including the LivingNorway R package, which helps researchers publish ecological datasets in the Darwin Core standard.

Sam Perrin

I am a biodiversity researcher at NTNU’s Department of Natural History. I work with open biodiversity data and species distribution models, and I build automated pipelines that turn those data into maps of where conservation should be prioritised. Before that I did a PhD on climate change and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems, and I founded Ecology for the Masses.