CV
Education
University of Washington -- Seattle, WA
09/2007 ~ Present
MS Student - Quantitative Ecology and Resource
Management
University of California Davis -- Davis, CA
06/2005 ~ 09/2007
BS - Applied Mathematics
BS - Statistics
Diablo Valley College -- Pleasant Hill, CA
06/2003 ~ 06/2005
AA
Research Projects
"Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Steepness Parameter"
Current
Mentor: Andre Punt
Fish Dpt. U. Washington
- ..
"Run-Timing of Local Chinook Populations"
Summer 08
Mentor: James Anderson
Columbia Basin Research
- ..
"Spatial Modeling of Vernal Pool Complexes"
Summer 07
Mentor: Rick Grosberg; Carole Hom
EVE Dpt. UC Davis
- ..
"Lag Effect of Tribolium castaneum"
Spring 06
Mentor: Brett Melbourne
EEB Dpt. U. Colorado
- ..
Mini-Projects
"Analysis of Chinook Run Timing at Different Time Scales"
Spring 08
Mentor: David Ford
Forestry Dpt. U. Washington
"Local Regression of Chinook Adults and Jacks Run-Timing"
Winter 08
Mentor: James Anderson
Columbia Basin Research
"Delay-Difference Model of Yellow-Fin Tuna"
Fall 07
Mentor: Mark Kot
Math Dpt. U. Washington
"Super Predators in Predator-Prey Dynamics"
Spring 07
Mentor: Joseph Biello
Math Dpt. UC Davis
"Connecting R and Google Earth"
Winter 07
Mentor: Duncan Temple Lang
Stats Dpt. UC Davis
"Chaos in 3 Species Food Chain"
Fall 06
Mentor: Alan Hastings
ESP Dpt. UC Davis
Talks
"Local Regression of Chinook Adults and Jacks Run-Timing"
03/12/08
» QERM Miniconference on Computational Methods in
Quantitative Ecology
"Population Ecology in Vernal Pool Systems: Implications for Management and
Restoration"
09/20/07
» UC Davis Vernal Pool Conference
"Spatial Modeling of Vernal Pool Complexes" (poster)
08/03/07
» Annual Meeting of The Society of Mathematical
Biology
"Lag Effect of Tribolium castaneum"
04/14/07
» National Conference of Undergraduate Research
"Population Dynamics of Tribolium castaneum"
04/29/06
» UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference
Papers
- Wu, Motoki et al. Spatial Modeling of Vernal Pool Complexes. Manuscript incomplete.
Teaching
- TA for AMATH 410:
Introduction to Computational Biology and Chemistry
Winter 09
Software
- R and Google Earth ~ Set of code to let R plot spatial data on Google Earth.
