Info for prospective QERM students
Michael Keim - Home Page
I am a graduate student in the Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management Program at the University of Washington. My general interests include time series analysis (esp. spectral and wavelet methods), fire ecology, generalized linear models, and compositional data analysis. My PhD reasearch will develop wavelet-based estimators for parameters in binary-valued time series showing long-range dependence and apply them to samples of ice thickness distribution from the North Pole. Other interests:
- time series methods for tree-ring analysis
- wavelet analysis applied to paleoecology
- compositional data analysis applied to ecological data
Current Work
My advisor is Don Percival, who teaches two courses on time series analysis: Spectral Analysis and Wavelets, both of which I recommend.
I am working on a PhD and have completed my coursework. Research is progressing; I've passed my general exam and the dissertation remains.
Brief biography
I arrived in Seattle in September 2001. I was a high school math teacher, first in Kerouane, Guinea, and then in southern Vermont, where I taught at the Putney School. If any of my old students happen to stumble on this page, send me an email. It would be great to hear what you've been doing. I am originally from St. Paul, Minnesota.I completed my M.S. with Jim Agee in the fall of 2003, with a thesis on estimating canopy fuels from optical measures of canopy cover, canopy closure, and leaf area index (LAI).
In case you had your doubts, this is not me.
Contact information
Address:Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, Box 352182, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2182, USA
Telephone: (206) 543-5769
Email: mkeim@u.washington.edu