The Datascience at FRB-CESAB

What kind of support do we offer?

February 2026

Nicolas Casajus

Camille Coux

Romain Frelat

Data scientists
@FRB-CESAB    

  Who are we?

Nicolas CASAJUS

Camille COUX

Romain FRELAT

  Macroecology, Biogeography,
Functional ecology, Climate change

  Web scraping, API, R packages,
GIS, SQL database, etc.

  Ecological network
structure in agroecosystems

  Network, GLMM,
socio-ecological systems, Python

  Marine ecology,
Tropical farming systems

  Spatio-temporal analysis
GIS, dashboards

  Data management

  Data acquisition

  Database structuration

  Data Management Plan & metadata

  No hosting solution at the CESAB

  Reproducible research

  Software development

Package repository: https://frbcesab.r-universe.dev/

  Data & software papers

  Visualization

Loiseau et al. (2020) 10.1038/s41467-020-18779-w

Mouillot et al. (2024) 10.1038/s41467-024-53241-1

Loiseau et al. (2020) 10.1038/s41467-020-18779-w

Source: DRAGON data exploration tool

  Training sessions

Mini workshops on

• Reproducible research  
• Version control w/ git  
• Data management
• Systematic review
• Spatial analysis  

Course description: https://frbcesab.github.io/content/courses.html

30 active projects in 2026

vs. 

3 data scientists…

  Let’s coordinate!

  Welcome to the CESAB!