Dr. Nicholas Bussberg
Research/Creative Interests
Statistical methods for environmental and ecological science. Current areas/projects include marine ecology (specifically, deep-sea coral reefs), tree-ring processing, and spatial statistics.
What types of “data” do you commonly use?
I primarily use quantitative datasets from environmental and ecological sciences. I use a variety of analysis techniques as appropriate for the data, pulling from traditional statistics (e.g., regression) and data science (e.g., random forest).
What types of collaborations are you open to?
I’m open to working with students, faculty, and staff from a variety of backgrounds and am open to new project ideas.
What agencies, organizations, or foundations do you have experience with to apply for grants?
- NSF
Student Qualifications
I am open to working with students from a wide variety of backgrounds. In general, students should be:
- Self-motivated
- Have good organizational and communication skills
- Be open to learning statistics/programming.
Students from the following majors and areas may connect more closely with my research, though I am open to and have worked with students with other backgrounds
- Statistics majors
- Data analytics majors
- Applied math majors
- Environmental science majors
- Biology majors