LAB MEMBERS

Diego Nieto Lugilde (Website)

Diego hails from the south of Spain, but thoroughly enjoyed the eastern US’s most severe winter in decades (note smile & meter of snow in photo).  He’s working on an NSF-funded project combining community-level modeling with fossil pollen and mammal data to forecast species responses to climate change (with Jessica Blois and Jack Williams).

Andy Gougherty, PhD student, UMCES Presidential Fellow

Andy joined the lab in summer of 2014 and will be working on the poplar genomics project to develop spatial modeling methods to understand and map adaptive genetic variation of forest trees in changing environments.

Kavya Pradhan

Kavya joined the lab in September 2014 to help with the paleo-modeling project, specifically looking at changes in functional and phylogenetic diversity through time. She began a MS in fall 2015 on modeling climate change impacts on biodiversity in the Arabian Gulf region.

Matthew Lisk

Matt calmly wields his impressive coding and GIS skills to endlessly tweak analyses just this one last time.

Miriam Johnston, MS (2014)

Miriam worked on the application of community-level modeling to predicting patterns of biodiversity in streams in Maryland. As of Fall 2014, Miriam is a PhD student at Harvard. We all miss her & wish her the best in her new research on modeling forest phenology.

Antonio González

Antonio visited the lab in spring of 2015 from the University of Grenada to work with myself and Diego on distributional patterns of Abies pinsapo and Abies marocana in southern Spain and northern Morocco.