Richard J. Bankoff, Ph.D.

Fieldwork experience with:

• Site selection
• Logistics management
• Research team recruitment
• Primatological & ecological survey methods
• International permitting

Genetics experience with:

• DNA library preparation (modern & ancient)
• DNA quality assays
• DNA probe design

Familiarity & facility with: 

• Theory (e.g.): consequentialism, deontology, principlism, casuistry 
• Praxis (e.g.): clinical equipoise, reflective equilibrium, institutional review mechanisms

Data visualization skills:

• Precise figure creation in R
• Refinement in Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Website/presentation design

Public outreach & pedagogy:

• I have taught students from under- to post-graduates
• I proudly participate in the Skype a Scientist program
• I have given a number of public & professional talks

Design, validation, & execution of:

• Individual questionnaires
• Focus group questionnaires
• Sampling methods

Focus on:

• Rapid language acquisition
• Community Outreach
• Participant-observation
• Long-term relationships

Languages:

• Perl
• R
• Awk/Sed/Bash

Practical skills:

• Database management
• Bioinformatic pipeline design
• Version/document control
• I know regular expressions

Expertise in:

• A priori & post hoc statistical power tests
• Regression models
• Generalized linear mixed models
• Model estimation & parameterization 
• Agent-based modeling
• Spatial & GIS-based models