- Offices & Labs
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Anthropology
- 225 Young Hall
- 1 Shields Avenue
- Davis, CA 95616
- 530-754-4794
Mark Grote
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
About
I studied math, statistics and genetics as an undergraduate at the University of Washington, and continued there for a M.S. in Statistics. I worked as an applied statistician in the Department of Physical Anthropology at UW for a couple of years before going to UC-Berkeley in the early 1990's for more graduate school. My Ph.D. advisors at Berkeley were Glenys Thomson (Integrative Biology) and Terry Speed (Statistics). At UC-Davis I was a post-doctoral researcher in Evolution and Ecology for several years, supervised by John Gillespie and Chuck Langley.
Research Focus
I specialized early on in statistical population genetics, but over the years I've become a generalist, working with anthropologists and others on many kinds of data analysis projects. I spend much of my time helping students formalize their questions and supervising their analytic and computing work. A current focus is the design of archaeological experiments aimed at understanding how bone and stone tools were produced and used, along with the analysis of surface scans and other images. Computational Bayesian methods are common elements of my work, but on occasion I gladly take up pen, paper and sit quietly at my desk doing math.