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Welcome
to the Pacific
Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab. Our
"PEaCE"
Lab, based in Berkeley, CA, is a non-profit interdisciplinary
research institute founded in 2004 to promote awareness of
ecological interdependence through research, development and education
related to ecoinformatics and computational ecology. Interested in food-web
data or images? Check out our Webs on the Web
project and the "food web gallery" link to the left. |
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| Compilation
and network analyses of Cambrian food webs by Jennifer
Dunne, Rich Williams, Neo
Martinez, and colleagues appears 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 (the largest circulation newspaper in Latin
America), The New Mexican, and others. It was selected as a
"must read" paper by Faculty of
1000 Biology. The Science Daily piece is popular on Digg.com and was included in Complexity
Digest. |
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| Commentary by Eric Berlow, Uli Brose, and Neo
Martinez, The "Goldilocks factor"
in food webs, appears in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA on March 18, 2008. |
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| The
debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human
activities (plus supporting information) by Thara
Srinivasan and
colleagues appears in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA on February 5,
2008. This study has been
reported by Nature, Science,
National
Public Radio, Bioscience,
Science
News, World
Science, United
Press
International, The
Guardian, The
Telegraph, and others. |
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| Paper by
Uli Brose and students Sonja Otto and Björn Rall (Otto et al. 2007) appears
in the Dec. 20/27, 2007 issue of Nature: Allometric
degree distributions facilitate food-web stability. |
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| Ilmi Yoon and students
develop a Parts, image, and
sketch-based 3D modeling method for the
study of insects. |
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| Diversity
and complexity of ecosystems: exploring balance and imbalance in nature,
a video
by
Neo
Martinez, Ilmi Yoon, and others, wins second place in the Competition
on Visualizing
Network Dynamics at NetSci 2007. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| The Lab hosts 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 |
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Ecological networks and
ecoinformatics
highlighted in BioScience
article: |
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| What
else affiliated faculty are up to: Ilmi Yoon receives tenure at San Francsico State University; she is now Associate Professor of Computer Science (2007). Jennifer Dunne starts residency as a Research Fellow at 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 position as Assistant Professor of Marine Invertebrate Zoology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2006). Rich Williams is hired to head 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 Ecological Networks Lab, Department of Biology, Darmstadt University of Technology (2004). |
contact:Neo Martinez : neo@peacelab.net, phone 510-848-9850 Jennifer Dunne: jdunne@santafe.edu, phone 505-946-2766