education
- 2012 Ph.D Population Biology, University of California, Davis. Mentor: Alan Hastings
- 2007 A.B in Physics Princeton University, with honors and certificates in biophysics and applied and computational mathematics.
publications
- Carl Boettiger, Alan Hastings (2013). Tipping points: From patterns to predictions Nature 493, 157–158. doi:10.1038/493157a (pdf)
- Carl Boettiger, Alan Hastings (2012). Early Warning Signals and the Prosecutor’s Fallacy 279 (1748) 4734-4739. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279 (1748). doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2085 (pdf) (arXiv) (code) (data)
- Carl Boettiger, Duncan Temple Lang, Peter Wainwright (2012). rfishbase: exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R, 2030–2039. Journal of Fish Biology. 81 (6). doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x (pdf) (preprint) (code) (R package)
- Carl Boettiger, Duncan Temple Lang (2012). Treebase: An R package for discovery, access and manipulation of online phylogenies, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00247.x (pdf) (preprint) (code) (R package)
- Carl Boettiger and Alan Hastings (2012). Quantifying Limits to Detection of Early Warning for Critical Transitions, 2527-2539. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 9 (75) doi:10.1098/rsif.2012.0125 (pdf) (arXiv) (code)
- Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, Carl Boettiger and Brian O’Meara, (2012). Modeling Stabilizing Selection: Expanding the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Model of Adaptive Evolution, 2369-2383. Evolution 66 (8). doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01619.x (pdf) (code)
- Carl Boettiger, Graham Coop, Peter Ralph (2012) Is your phylogeny informative? Measuring the power of comparative methods, 2240-51. Evolution 66 (7). doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01574.x (pdf) (arXiv) (code) (data)
- Carl Boettiger, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S Weitz (2010) Fluctuation domains in adaptive evolution, 6-13. Theoretical Population Biology 77 (1). doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2009.10.003 (pdf) (arXiv) (code) (data)
- James J. Wray, Neta A. Bahcall, Paul Bode, Carl Boettiger, Phillip Hopkins. (2006) The Shape, Multiplicity, and Evolution of Superclusters in ΛCDM Cosmology, 907-916. The Astrophysical Journal 652 (2). doi:10.1086/508600 (pdf) (arXiv)
submitted
- Samantha A. Price, Lars Schmitz, Philip S. L. Anderson, Carl Boettiger, Peter C. Wainwright. Comparing disparity between traits using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model: a test of functional constraint on the eyes of labrid fishes.
- Carl Boettiger*, Noam Ross*, Alan Hastings. Early warning signals: The charted and uncharted territories.
presentations
- Carl Boettiger (2012) Ecological Society of America Conference, Portland, OR. (slides)
- Carl Boettiger (2012) Computational Science Graduate Fellows Conference, Washington DC.
(video recording) (slides) (doi) - Invited speaker in SSB Symposium: Carl Boettiger (2012) Evolution Conference, Ottawa, CAN. (slides)
- Carl Boettiger & Alan Hastings. (2011) Ecological Society of America Conference; Austin, TX. In Nature Precedings (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2011) Evolution Conference; Norman, OK. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2011) iEvoBio Conference; Norman, OK. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2011) Science Online; Durham, NC. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger, Graham Coop & Peter Ralph. (2011) Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Salt Lake City, Utah. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2010) iEvoBio Conference; Portland, OR. In Nature Precedings (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2010) Evolution Conference; Portland OR. In Nature Precedings (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2009) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
- Carl Boettiger. (2009) Center for Population Biology, Davis, CA. (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2009) International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna; Austria. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
- Carl Boettiger. (2008) Cornell Probability Summer School, Ithaca, NY. In Nature Precedings, (doi) (slides)
theses
- Carl Boettiger (2012). Regime shifts in ecology and evolution (PhD Dissertation). doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.97218
- Carl Boettiger, Stephen Pacala, David Huse (2007) Ensemble Behavior from Individual Dynamics in Multispecies Forest Populations. Princeton Physics Dept. (pdf)
- Carl Boettiger, Joshua Weitz, Simon Levin (2007) Adaptive Dynamics: Branching Phenomena and the Canonical Equation Princeton Physics Dept. (pdf)
- Carl Boettiger, David Huse (2006) Clonal Interference Models in Population Genetics. Princeton Physics Dept. (pdf)
software
- Carl Boettiger (2012). pmc: Phylogenetic Monte Carlo. Stable version on CRAN.
- Carl Boettiger & Duncan Temple Lang (2011). treebase: An R interface to TreeBASE. Stable version on CRAN.
- Carl Boettiger (2011). rfishbase: Programmatic access to FishBase. Stable version on CRAN.
- I am also a founding member of the rOpenSci project, which has currently produced over 30 R packages for interacting with web data and recieved $5000 from Google to support a full-time summer student intern.
See my Software page for more.
grants
- 2013-2015 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, [Intersections of Biology and Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering](http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12497/nsf12497.htm) DBI-1306697. $138,000. Grant Proposal: [doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.652970](http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.652970)
- 2012 Short-term visitor grant to NIMBioS. For research in optimal control
- 2011, 2012 PI on DoE Grant No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. 50,000 hr supercomputing on NERSC machines
- 2009 IIASA YSSP fellowship. National Academy of Sciences, NSF Grant No. OISE-0738129, $8,000
- 2008-2012 Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Department of Energy, Grant No: DE-FG02-97ER25308, 4 yrs x $36,000/yr
awards
- 2011 Mendeley & PLoS Binary Battle software competition award, $1,000
- 2011 Volterra Award (Best student talk, ESA Theory Section)
- 2007 Elected to Membership in the Society of Sigma Xi
- 2007 Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics, Princeton University
- 2007 The Class of 1870 Old English Prize, Princeton University
- 2006 Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton University
- 2006 Plasma Physics Fellow, PPPL
service
Reviewer for: Theoretical Ecology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Ecological Modelling, Evolution, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Ecosphere, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Journal of Theoretical Biology, PLoS ONE, Ecology, Conservation Letters, Ecology Letters
workshops
- 2011-2012 National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) working group: Pretty Darn Good Control, Knoxville, TN
- 2009 American Institute for Mathematics, Stochastic and deterministic spatial modeling in population dynamics, Palo Alto, CA
interviews
- 2013 Gershwin, Virginia. Turning Point: Carl Boettiger Nature, 493 doi: 10.1038/nj7434-711a
- 2010 Wald Chelsea. "Scientists Embrace Openness." Science. doi: 10.1126/science.caredit.a1000036