
The Drake lab welcomes new members at all levels. Graduate Students At any given time, four to five students may call the Drake lab their…

Abdul Ali, Nicholas Adam, Kane Moser, and JP Schmidt have all joined the Drake lab at the start of the Fall 2023 semester. Abdul joins…

Natural disasters like hurricanes, droughts, and floods are becoming increasingly frequent and severe as a result of global climate change and human activities. Perhaps more…

The control and prediction of emerging pathogens are major challenges for the health and safety of the public, as they are among the most unpredictable…

Sukanta Sarkar joined the Drake lab as a Postdoctoral Associate during the summer of 2022. Sukanta earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Indian…

Nipa comes to the lab with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Texas Tech University where she studied the effects of demographic and environmental stochasticity…

Kyle Dahlin joined the Drake lab as a Postdoctoral Associate this summer after receiving his PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University. He will be working…

A variety of generic indicators have been proposed to identify gradual changes in a population that can be used to anticipate the onset or conclusion…

Socio-demographic, and not environmental, risk factors explain fine-scale spatial patterns of diarrheal disease in Ifanadiana, rural Madagascar Diarrheal disease (DD) is responsible for over 700,000…

Global shifts in temperature are yielding widespread impacts across diverse ecosystems and certain species are especially vulnerable to these changes. In particular, many reptiles –…