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PI: Ariel Greiner
Incoming Assistant Professor - Texas A&M Corpus Christi Quantitative ecologist focused on using modelling to inform conservation and health solutions. Passionate about increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in science and beyond. I am currently a postdoc in the QMEL lab at the University of New Hampshire, focusing on developing best practices for the design of monitoring plans for marine ecosystems with complex dynamics. Before that, I was a postdoc with the Shea and Ferrari labs at Pennsylvania State University and with the MCEM lab at Oxford University modelling Foot and Mouth disease dynamics and coral reef dynamics to inform management strategies. During this time, I also participated in an NSF-funded working group focused on developing Model Enabled Machine Learning methods for forecasting regime shifts in complex ecosystems (link) and worked with a large international team focused on advancing the use of Value of Information in conservation management (link). My PhD at the University of Toronto (in the Krkošek, Fortin and Darling labs) focused on modelling coral reef larval dispersal networks to determine how larval dispersal among reefs might change the stability of the coral-dominated state (link) and to delineate present-day larval dispersal networks and assess the capacity of natural re-seeding to re-seed present-day reef networks (link). My final chapter was in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society of Fiji and modelled a Fijian reef network and assessed the efficacy of various different management strategies. I have also worked on projects modelling SARS CoV-2 dynamics in Canada, assessing human impacts on worldwide genetic diversity, determining pigeons capacity to learn efficient routes in travelling salesman (or salespigeon) problems and writing guidelines for graduate students working with mathematical models for the first time. I am the lead author of the paper that was the Canadian National Champion in the Inaugural Frontiers Planet Prize competition in 2023. Learn more about my work from coverage in Hakai Magazine and Conservation Corridors. |
