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      <title>DataSci</title>
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      <description>Scientific reproducibility I am an advocate of open-source software and data sharing. You can find tools that I&amp;rsquo;ve helped to develop at provenance@harvard and on Github.
Network analysis software I have helped to code Ecosystem Network Analysis (ENA) algorithms into the R programming language. These have been integrated into an open-source software package called enaR. Check out our develop page at https://github.com/SEELab/enaR.
I&amp;rsquo;ve also programmed and hosted a Shiny app for exploring the Pitcher Plant Microecosystem model.</description>
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      <title>Ecology</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Ecological networks I collaborate with folks in the Systems Ecology and Ecoinformatics (SEE) Lab at UNCW to develop and apply network theory based tools for studying complex ecosystems. For more info, check out Dr. Borrett&amp;rsquo;s SEELab website.
Genes to ecosystems I have collaborated with researchers at Northern Arizona University on a range of projects studying how genetic variation can impact ecosystems through a combination of experimental ecology, genetics and multivariate statistics, community genetics.</description>
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      <title>Teaching</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/teaching/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Harvard Forest Research Computing Education While at Harvard Forest I have participated as a mentor and instructor for the the Harvard Forest REU and the School Yard LTER programs.
R for Ecologists I have taught introductory courses for undegrads, graduate students and professionals at the Northern Arizona University, University of Bordeaux, University of North Carolina Wilmington and Harvard Forest. In particular, I emphasize using computational tools to facilitate open-science and reproducibile research.</description>
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      <title>Published! Regime shifts in a microecosytem</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/sarrsens/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>My manuscript on the dynamics of the pitcher plant microecosystem just got accepted at Ecological Modeling! You can view a pre-print here.</description>
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      <title>Released! Draft *Aphaenogaster* genomes</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/2017-03-01-apgenomes/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Just finished the final assembly of draft genomes for six species of seed ants from the genus Aphaenogaster. You can read the pre-print of the paper here.
The sequences will be released on NCBI in May 2018 check them out here.</description>
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      <title>Published! If these data could talk...</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/scidata/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Our paper on applications of data provenance is out in Nature Scientific Data!</description>
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      <title>Data provenance for scientific reproducibility</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/dataprov/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>http://github.mklau.io/blog/dataprov/</guid>
      <description>I’ll be joinging a team based at Harvard University (Computer Science and Harvard Forest) and Mount Holyoke College to work on methods for capturing and storing information about scientific computations. We will be focusing on Data Provenance, which is a formal record of the processes that created a given data set.</description>
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      <title>Harvard Forest REU Program</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/hfreu/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I have mentored students in association with the Harvard Forest Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. The REU is an ecology focused opportunity for undergraduates to get hands-on experience conducting field and laboratory research.</description>
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      <title>Genes to ecosystems</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/g2e/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I conducted my doctoral dissertation research at Northern Arizona University NAU in the Biological Sciences Department. I worked primarily with Dr. Thomas G. Whitham’s Cottonwood Ecology Group in association with the Merriem-Powell Center for Environmental Research.</description>
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      <title>A Thousand Invisible Cords</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/knau/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>The PBS documentary, “A Thousand Invisible Cords”, explores the Genes-to-Ecosystem Research pioneered at Northern Arizona University. The title refers to a quote from John Muir referring to the interconnectedness of nature. The work highlighted in the film runs parallel with Muir’s sentiment, largely revealing the role that genetically based variation plays in struturing ecosystems across space, time and biological scales.</description>
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      <title>Ecosystem network research</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I have been working with Dr. Stuart Borrett’s Systems Ecology and Ecoinformatics Lab (aka. the SEELab) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. to apply and develop computational tools for analyzing complex ecological networks. Together we have produced the enaR Ecosystem Network Analysis (ENA) package that incorporates over 40 years of research into network analysis algorithms.</description>
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      <title>Harvard Forest Postdoctoral Fellowship</title>
      <link>http://github.mklau.io/blog/hfpostdoc/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I have accepted an invitation to conduct postdoctoral studies at Harvard Forest (Harvard Univeristy) to continue my research on the impacts of genetic variation on ecological networks. I’ll be working with Dr. Aaron Ellison who has studied the impacts of ecological disturbance on a broad variety of ecological systems.</description>
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