The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a US Department of Energy owned facility located in South Carolina. Located within the SRS property are a series…
To efficiently manage and prevent species invasions, we need accurate predictions of where these species can arrive and persist. Species distribution models make such predictions…
A second blog post from Tad Dallas’s internship at Vertica has been posted at their website. Read here to see how Tad used HP Vertica and…
Which animal species are the most likely carriers of future emerging diseases? New research led by Barbara Han (also involving JP Schmidt, Sarah Bowden, and…
Ecological niche modeling concerns the task of identifying the environmental conditions under which species persist. Niche modeling — and the mapping of species distributions it…
Sean Maher has updated our model for the spread of White-nose Syndrome in the United States. The revised model was fit to data on the timing…
The methodology of ecological niche modeling has long been a topic of interest in the lab. A particular challenge has been the development of methods that…
Malaria is prominent among the vector-borne infectious diseases widely anticipated to be affected by climate change. Roughly, the idea is that global and regional climate…
Many species of carp are invasive in North America, accumulating large biomass, damaging benthic habitat, and disrupting native food webs. By contrast, the Grass Carp…
In January, John visited Grambling State University, Philander-Smith College, and the University of Arkansas Little Rock to lecture on White-nose Syndrome, meet with students and…