The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology at Madison, WI from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074).
The funding will support integrative research investigating the relationships between biodiversity and disease risk dynamics. The fellow will apply state-of-the-art modeling approaches to characterize the spatial and temporal variation in biodiversity-disease relationships using rodent-tick and bird-mosquito data from the National Ecological Observatory Network. Specifically, the fellow will examine whether biodiversity-disease scaling is consistent across systems, sensitivity to biodiversity change, and influence of seasonality and climate on temporal dynamics. In addition to research, the fellow will participate in career training activities and broadening participation initiatives including undergraduate student mentoring and teaching a graduate course module on using NEON data.
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