Achievement

Erin Landguth obtained her Individualized Interdisciplinary PhD this spring using her research and education in applied mathematics and computational ecology to marry the tools of spatial modeling to disease ecology and landscape ecology. This allows researchers to explore relationships between mechanisms and responses in a spatially complex environment. Past progress in these fields was limited by lack of computational power and flexible mathematical models to simulate the actions of ecosystem and population. Her specific research focused on the development of mathematical and computational models to synthesize environmental data for describing and predicting the characteristics of population and disease dynamics on the landscape and applications of a spatially-explicit computer model to predict population connectivity and geneflow on complex landscapes.