Incoming asst prof at Rutgers DEENR, research scientist at Yale '21-'26. Quantitative climate change ecology, macroecology, avian ecology, early career researcher, birder, photographer, human dad, cat dad, knicks/yankees fan, NYer
I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us
We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
Extreme Heat as the New Normal: A Methodological Roadmap Incorporating Behavior, Physiology, and Species DistributionsAbstract. A defining feature of climate change is the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events. Among them, extreme heat isacademic.oup.com🚨Now out! For 98 hummingbird species, we jointly model presence-only GBIF data + presence-absence ebird data, leveraging both simultaneously to arrive at more accurate predictions for under-surveyed species. And got the cover! Led by Jussi Mäkinen 🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Model‐Based Data Integration Improves Species Distribution Models for Data‐Deficient and Narrow‐Ranged Hummingbird SpeciesAim For species with narrow ranges or low population sizes, a deficiency of species occurrence records can limit the capacity to build accurate species distribution models (SDMs). Model-based integr...onlinelibrary.wiley.comExciting to be a part of this!
Diego Ellis SotoThrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️
Leading a organized session at #WBF2026 on climate change and biodiversity! Titled "Linking anthropogenic climate change to shifting biodiversity patterns". If submitting an abstract, you can send it directly to the session (under NEX track)! worldbiodiversityforum.org
🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights our paper about bird niches keeping pace with climate change in a news & views feature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat - Nature Ecology & EvolutionTwenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.www.nature.comNEW SCIENCE! 🚨🚨🚨🧪🪶🌐 Our paper is now online at @natecoevo.nature.com! “Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds”. We know birds are moving north with climate change, but what are the consequences? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Saw/heard 104 bird species in Florida over Thanksgiving... crossing 100 was a goal I slowly become obsessed with, made tougher with all the best spots being closed due to hurricane. Here's a prairie warbler ebird.org/tripreport/2... 🪶 #birds
🚨 NOW ONLINE- global ecol & biogeog As global change accelerates, accurate predictions are critical to limit biodiversity loss. With many continental predictions at coarse grain, it's unclear how grain-size biases vary across space/time, giving poor predictions for some regions, seasons, species 🧪
Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity PatternsAim As global change accelerates, accurate predictions of species distributions and biodiversity patterns are critical to limit biodiversity loss. Numerous studies have found that coarse-grain speci...onlinelibrary.wiley.comIncredible job by my colleagues at Map of Life! advancing tech in biodiversity monitoring
‘Map of Life’ team wins $2 million prize for innovative rainforest trackingThe Yale-based team, Map of Life Rapid Assessments, will use its prize money to expand its biodiversity work around the world.news.yale.edu[Recapping research since I left Xitter: June '24] We explored how dynamic winter min temps influence short-distance migration & survival in white-tailed deer using decades of archival telemetry data 🧪 My first pub as a formal grad mentor- of an awesome MS student at UW-Madison shorturl.at/eUc7B
[Recapping our research since I quit Xitter - Apr '24] Continental-scale experiment and global analysis show local amphibian-fungal interactions result in high pathogen prevalence, growth, and host mortality, but novel interactions led to some virulent combinations🧪 Led by @eronhubbard.bsky.social
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypothesesThe naïve host syndrome hypothesis suggests that pathogens are able to easily invade and become deadly to novel hosts because of a lack of co-evolutionary history, whereas the local adaptation hypoth...onlinelibrary.wiley.com