Dr Carla Ewels ~ Lecturer, Data Science and Statistics

Carla Ewels is a Lecturer in statistics/data sciences at James Cook University. She received her doctoral in statistics from the Queensland University of Technology supervised by the Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen. Carla has strong interests in statistical modelling and methods, particularly in the Bayeisan framework. These include, but are not limited to, modelling of complex systems, Bayesian temporal and spatial models, model comparisons, classification, clustering, analysis of big data and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. She is especially interested in applying statistics to real problems. To date, she has worked in the field of marine and medical research, genetics, agriculture and fisheries.

Teaching

• MA2405: Advanced Statistical Modelling (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• MA3405: Statistical Data Mining for Big Data (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
• MA5405: Data Mining (Level 5; TSV)
• MA5810: Introduction to Data Mining (Level 5; CNS, ONL & TSV)
• MA5820: Statistical Methods for Data Scientists (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
• MA5840: Data Science and Strategic Decision Making for Business (Level 5; ONL)
• SC2209: Quantitative Methods in Science-Advanced (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Research

• Statistical modelling and methods
• Bayesian statistics
• Real world data
• Uncertainty
• Data sciences
• Model and variable selection

Teaching

• Statistics

Research Disciplines

• Veterinary Sciences (0707)
• Microbiology (0605)
• Ecology (0602)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public Health (9204)
• Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species (9604)
• Environment (9699)

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Journal Articles

• Martin G, Yanez-Arenas C, Plowright R, Chen C, Roberts B and Skerratt L (2018) Hendra virus spillover is a bimodal system driven by climatic factors. EcoHealth, 15 (3), pp. 526-542, DOI:10.1007/s10393-017-1309-y.
• Martin G, Yanez-Arenas C, Chen C, Plowright R, Webb R and Skerratt L (2018) Climate change could increase the geographic extent of Hendra virus spillover risk. EcoHealth, 15 (3), pp. 509-525, DOI:10.1007/s10393-018-1322-9.
• Chen C, Bourne D, Drovandi C, Mengersen K, Willis B, Caley M and Sato Y (2017) Modelling environmental drivers of black band disease outbreaks in populations of foliose corals in the genus Montipora. PeerJ, 5, Article: e3438, DOI:10.7717/peerj.3438.
• Martin Munoz De Cote G, Webb R, Chen C, Plowright R and Skerratt L (2017) Microclimates might limit indirect spillover of the bat borne zoonotic Hendra virus. Microbial Ecology, 74 (1), pp. 106-115, DOI:10.1007/s00248-017-0934-x.
• Pratchett M, Caballes C, Wilmes J, Matthews S, Mellin C, Sweatman H, Nadler L, Brodie J, Thompson C, Hoey J, Bos A, Byrne M, Messmer V, V. Fortunato S, Chen C, Buck A, Babcock R and Uthicke S (2017) Thirty years of research on crown-of-thorns starfish (1986-2016): scientific advances and emerging opportunities. Diversity, 9 (4), DOI:10.3390/d9040041.
• Martin G, Yanez-Arenas C, Roberts B, Chen C, Plowright R, Webb R and Skerratt L (2016) Climatic suitability influences species specific abundance patterns of Australian flying foxes and risk of Hendra virus spillover. One Health, 2, pp. 115-121, DOI:10.1016/j.onehlt.2016.07.004.
• Martin G, Plowright R, Chen C, Kault D, Selleck P and Skerratt L (2015) Hendra virus survival does not explain spillover patterns and implicates relatively direct transmission routes from flying foxes to horses. Journal of General Virology, 96, pp. 1229-1237, DOI:10.1099/vir.0.000073.
• Golledge J, Ewels C, Muller R and Walker P (2014) Association of chronic kidney disease categories defined with different formulae with major adverse events in patients with peripheral vascular disease. Atherosclerosis, 232 (2), pp. 289-297, DOI:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.11.034.

Conference Papers

• Everingham Y, Clarke A, Chen C, Van Gorder S and McGuire P (2007) Exploring the capabilities of a long lead climate forecasting system for the NSW sugar industry. Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. In: 29th Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, 8-11 May 2007, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Using Weather Radars to Inform Data-Driven Irrigation Practices (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Parallel and Scalable Neural Network Algorithms (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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