His research aims to understand, forecast or manage ecological regime shifts by combining novel approaches to mathematical modeling with tools from informatics and data science. He is a firm believer in open science and the co-founder of the ropensci [3] project which has been actively building software and community to facilitate data science research in ecology and related disciplines. Carl has been a regular collaborator on a number of Informatics projects including conceptualizing an Institute for Sustainable Earth and Environmental Software [4] (ISEES) project and the ABI Community Dynamics Project Workshop. More> [5]