Research interests

  • climate-snow interactions in mountain environments
  • spatiotemporal variability of temperature, precipitation, and snow in complex terrain
  • climate change and its impacts

Analytical expertise

  • statistical data analysis (multidimensional, spatiotemporal, nonlinear)
  • image analysis (earth observation, webcam)
  • open & reproducible science

What I enjoy

  • asking questions
  • creating visualizations (static, interactive)
  • exploring the steady stream of new capabilities of R and RStudio
  • learning

Strenghts

  • keeping calm in chaos
  • detecting bullshit-bingo

Why mitmat?

It’s the first three letters of Mitch, which is one of the many nicknames I have received in my lifetime and one that lasted the most. Followed by the first three letters of my last name Matiu.

Kudos

Thanks to Alison Hill for this theme and her great tutorials on using blogdown, and Yihui Xie for developing blogdown itself.

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Michael Matiu