Dungeons and Dragons Simulation with Shiny
I wrote a short Shiny app to simulate some game mechanics in Dungeons and Dragons in order to visualize and quantify how probability affects game outcomes. 
Posts by Collection
portfolio
Blog posts
A collection of links to blog posts I’ve written for Washington State University’s R Working Group.
Global lake area, climate, and population dataset
A global dataset containing lake and reservoir surface area, basin-level temperature, precipitation, and population data.
publications
Plant-Pollinator Interactions in a Northwest Arum Related to Plant Traits but not Riparian Forest Management
Published in Northwest Science, 2015
This paper describes arum pollination in managed Northwest riparian forests.
Recommended citation: Matthew Brousil, Chris Humann, and Dylan Fischer "Plant-Pollinator Interactions in a Northwest Arum Related to Plant Traits but not Riparian Forest Management," Northwest Science 89(3), 297-307, (1 August 2015). https://doi.org/10.3955/046.089.0310 https://doi.org/10.3955/046.089.0310
Compounding Fire Disturbance History Encourages Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Regeneration and Community Dominance
Published in California Polytechnic State University, 2016
Master’s thesis describing the effects of compounding fire disturbance history on coast redwood regeneration and community dominance in Big Sur, CA.
Recommended citation: Brousil, Matthew R., 2016. Compounding fire disturbance history encourages coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) regeneration and community dominance. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.15368/theses.2016.159
Global lake area, climate, and population dataset
Published in Environmental Data Initiative, 2020
This is a dataset containing lake surface area for 1.42 + million lakes and reservoirs from 1995 to 2015 with basin-level temperature, precipitation, and population data.
Recommended citation: Labou, S.G., Meyer, M.F., Brousil, M.R., Cramer, A.N., Luff, B.T. 2020. Global lake area, climate, and population dataset ver 4. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/834e2d4e8ee7eb2fa9a5a5b32d759683 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0517-4
The global lake area, climate, and population dataset
Published in Scientific Data, 2020
This paper describes a dataset containing lake surface area for 1.42 + million lakes and reservoirs from 1995 to 2015 with basin-level temperature, precipitation, and population data.
Recommended citation: Meyer, M.F., Labou, S.G., Cramer, A.N., Brousil, M.R., Luff, B.T. The global lake area, climate, and population dataset. Sci Data 7, 174 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0517-4 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0517-4
Integrating perspectives to understand lake ice dynamics in a changing world
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2020
This study describes drivers of freshwater lake ice, methods for the study of lake ice, and avenues for multidisciplinary research to fill existing gaps in this body of research.
Recommended citation: Sharma, S., Meyer, M. F., Culpepper, J., Yang, X., Hampton, S., Berger, S. A., et al. (2020). Integrating perspectives to understand lake ice dynamics in a changing world. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2020JG005799. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005799 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005799
talks
Split Between Two Worlds: The Land and Sea Archaeological Sites of Chuuk Lagoon and Implications for Cultural Change in Micronesia
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Talk given at Archaeological Institute of America/American Philological Association Annual Meeting in 2014.
Plant-pollinator interactions in a Northwest arum are influenced by plant traits, not riparian forest management
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Talk given at Northwest Scientific Association Annual Meeting in 2014.
Influence of fire history and soil legacies on coast redwood regeneration and stand structure
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Talk given at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2016.
Influence of fire history and soil legacies on coast redwood stand structure and composition
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Talk given at the Coast Redwood Science Symposium, Eureka, CA in 2016.
R Shiny Introduction
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Instructional talk on the Shiny R package given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2018. Link to blog post here.
Tips on Cleaning Scripts and Data in R
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Instructional talk on script and data cleaning in R given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.
R Markdown Introduction
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Instructional talk on R Markdown given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.
Advanced Methods with ggplot2
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Instructional talk on advanced applications of ggplot2 given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2019. Link to blog post here.
An Introduction to Working with Lists Using purrr
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Instructional talk on the basics of map() and related functions from the purrrpackage in R and how to effectively do analysis using data in lists. Given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020. Link to blog post here.
R Shiny Introduction
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Instructional talk on the Shiny R package given at the WSU R Working Group, Pullman, WA in 2020. Link to blog post here.
workshops
Applications in R programming for Ecology and Natural Resources
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Organizer of a workshop on applications of R in ecology and natural resources applications for the 2018 NWSA Annual Meeting. Link to meeting proceedings here.
Data Carpentry for Ecology in R and Python
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Organizer and moderator of a Data Carpentry for Ecologists workshop offering both R and Python lessons. Link to workshop website here.
Intro to Manipulating and Visualizing Data in R
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Organizer and co-instructor of a workshop on introductory data manipulation and visualization for the 2019 NWSA Annual Meeting. Workshop adapted from Data Carpentry materials. Link to meeting proceedings here.
Software Carpentry in R and Python
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Organizer and co-instructor of a Software Carpentry workshop offering both R and Python lessons. Link to workshop website here.
Data Carpentry for Ecology in R
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Organizer and moderator of a Data Carpentry for Ecologists workshop in R. Link to workshop website here.