(Internal) Species on the move

Advisor: Joey Bernhardt, Integrative Biology

Proposed computational co-advisor: Ayesha Ali, Computer Science

Global climate change is threatening natural systems and the benefits they provide to people. As climates warm, species track their preferred climates by shifting their ranges to higher latitudes, higher elevations, and deeper depths. This project will harness global species distributions datasets, global climate data and thermal physiology data to answer questions about the effects of climate change and distributional shifts, and what those changes mean for patterns of extinction under climate change scenarios. This project will take place in the Bernhardt Lab, and the students involved will have opportunities to join in lab activities, collaborations and community. For more information, please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/

This can be a one or two semester project.