Research

I have a background in studying the community ecology of aquatic insects in headwater streams in the southern Appalachians. That is where I first became interested in applying metacommunity theory to understand patterns in biodiversity. My current research interests include metacommunity dynamics in river networks, spatial patterns in diatom and soil microbial biodiversity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, synthesis of long-term trends in biodiversity, and promoting reproducible research and open and FAIR data in ecology and the environmental sciences. 

The MetaCommunity Simulation (MCSim) package for R

https://github.com/sokole/MCSim
https://sites.google.com/site/metacommunitysimulation/

Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Metacommunity Synthesis Working Group

Project page at lternet.edu
Project page on GitHub
ltmc (long term metacommunities) package for R
ARCHIVE https://sites.google.com/site/ltermetacommunities/home

Community Stability in River Networks

Project page on ResearchGate
NSF Award #DEB1655593

Remote Characterization of Microbial Mats in Taylor Valley, Antarctica

NSF Award #OPP1744849