Datavore Consulting was a short-lived business venture by a few friends (Travis Hinkelman, Ben Nolting, Caroline Hinkelman, Tony Mong) with a shared love of math, programming, and ecology. We have decided to focus on our primary careers, but Travis and Ben will continue to blog under the Datavore Consulting banner.

Travis Hinkelman recently accepted a position as an Ecological Modeler with Cramer Fish Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Nebraska, M.S. degree in Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Wildlife Biology from Clemson University, and B.S. degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences from the University of Missouri. His expertise is in simulation modeling and statistics, particularly individual-based models, animal movement analysis, survival analysis, plant community analysis, and programming in R and Netlogo.


Ben Nolting is a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska. He earned M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska and the University of Alaska, respectively. His expertise is in mathematical modeling, particularly partial differential equations, stochastic processes, and programming in Mathematica.