The goal of this site is mutual education on a fairly wide variety of topics having more (or less!) of an ecological connection. All knowledge levels are welcome here and I try to explain things at as basic of a level as I can.
The comment policy: Please stick to the topic and have something defensible (and useful) to say, or just don’t bother. This is NOT a site where you can just say anything you want or argue nonsense. There’s too much noise in the world, let’s please create some signal here. Also, first-time commenters’ comments get held in the queue for approval but after that are supposed to be auto-approved…but that thing often as not doesn’t work and sometimes it’s a few days before I get back to check.
My background: I have a Bachelor’s of Science in Wildlife Management from Ohio State, and a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of California at Davis. I’ve also got some background in molecular biology, genetics and dendroclimatology. But I’m primarily a forest ecologist. I should stick to these topics, but alas I tend to venture out where I shouldn’t. Nature of the beast; I like a lot of things, including especially music and song-writing.
I’m not much for photos, taken of or by, but here’s a relatively recent picture:
Contact info:
jrbouldin@ucdavis.edu, bouldinjr@gmail.com, 419 967 0481.
All blog posts are copyright Jim Bouldin. Just let me know if you want to use something. The R code and any data are free to grab and use, just please acknowledge the source. Thanks.
Ecologically Oriented 
I think you would get better feedback if you leave comments open on your posts — I can’t see any reason to cut them off after just a month, as it takes awhile for people to find them — I happened to see a comment at the RC thread on Briffa 2013, which lead me to your site, all new to me.
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“Fewer scientific problems are so often discussed yet so rarely decided
by proofs, as whether climatic relations have changed over time.”
— Joachim von Schouw, 1826.
Yeah, that’s a good idea; thanks and done.
As a suggestion, you may want to change the name of your blog from “Ecologically Orientated” to “Ecologically Oriented” since “orientated’ is not a word and detracts from your message. Thanks for your posts.
I did that on purpose actually, just being in a weird mood the day I set the thing up. Just picked a slightly wrong blog name, grabbed a picture of the dog, and off I went.
Hockey Schtick is incorrect: “orientated” is indeed a word, it’s just that it’s more commonly used in British English than American. To my (native Brit) ears, “oriented” sounds wrong.
I feel vindicated 🙂
Happy to oblige! 🙂