Simple MaxEnt models explain food web degree distributions by Rich Williams appeared in Theoretical Ecology (Online First 2009).

Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks by Tamara Romanuk and other Lab scientists, and Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs by Jennifer Dunne and Rich Williams, appeared in the June 27, 2009 issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on "Food-web assembly and collapse: mathematical models and implications for conservation." 

Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs by Eric Berlow, Uli Brose and other Lab scientists appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on January 6, 2009. A summary can be found here.

Neo Martinez was elected to a three year term (2008-2010) to the Board of Directors of SACNAS, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. SACNAS is widely recognized as the "premier organization that promotes diversity in science careers."  Its mission is to encourage Chicano/Latino and Native American students to obtain advanced science degrees and to pursue research, teaching, and leadership careers at all levels.

Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100, a Science paper co-authored by Eric Berlow (Sala et al. 2000), was one of The 20 Most-Cited Papers in Environment & Ecology, 1998-2008.

Compilation and network analyses of Cambrian food webs by Jennifer Dunne, Rich Williams, Neo Martinez, and colleagues appeared in the open-access journal PLoS Biology on April 29, 2008 (press release). This study has been reported by Nature, Science, Science Daily, German Public Radio, Folha de S. Paolo, and The New Mexican, and was selected as a "must read" paper for Faculty of 1000 Biology.

The "Goldilocks factor" in food webs, a commentary by Eric Berlow, Uli Brose, and Neo Martinez, appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on March 18, 2008.

The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities by Thara Srinivasan and colleagues appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on February 5, 2008. This study has been reported by Nature, Science, BioScience, National Public Radio, World Science, United Press International, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and other outlets.

Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability by Uli Brose and students Sonja Otto and Björn Rall (Otto et al. 2007) appeared in the Dec. 20/27, 2007 issue of Nature.

Ilmi Yoon and students developed a Parts, image, and sketch-based 3D modeling method for the study of insects.

Diversity and complexity of ecosystems: exploring balance and imbalance in nature, a video by Neo Martinez, Ilmi Yoon, and others, won second place in the Competition on Visualizing Network Dynamics at NetSci 2007.

Lab research featured in SFI Bulletin article on Risk in financial markets: learning from nature.
Lab research and food-web image featured in PLoS Biology article on Restoring nature's backbone.
Lab research featured in leading conservation biology magazine Conservation in Practice.
Lab icon of ecological complexity chosen as Math Awareness Month poster child.

Recent books co-edited by Jennifer Dunne, published by Oxford University Press:
Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs
Aquatic Food Webs: An Ecosystem Approach

The Lab hosted an oral session at the Ecological Society of America 90th Annual Meeting in Montreal:
Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological research across scales

Ecological networks and ecoinformatics were highlighted in a BioScience article (Green et al. 2005):
Complexity in ecology and conservation: mathematical, statistical, and computational challenges

Neo Martinez completes appointment as an EU Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Potsdam University, Berlin (2009).

Neo Martinez is elected to the Board of Directors of SACNAS (2008).

Ilmi Yoon receives tenure at San Francsico State University; she is now Associate Professor of Computer Science (2007).

Jennifer Dunne joins faculty of the Santa Fe Institute (2007).

Neo Martinez completes residency as a Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (2007).

Thara Srinivasan joins the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab as an affiliated scientist (2006).

Tamara Romanuk starts appointment as Assistant Professor of Marine Invertebrate Zoology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2006).

Rich Williams becomes head of the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group, External Research Office, Microsoft Research (2006).

Eric Berlow becomes director of the Wawona Field Station, University of California, Merced (2006).

Uli Brose becomes director of the Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Darmstadt University of Technology (2004).