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Welcome to the Systems Ecology and Ecoinformatics Laboratory at the UNCW. The overarching goals of our work are

to understand the lawful processes that create, constrain, and sustain ecosystems, and
to develop a formal science of environment that we can use to comprehend the causes and consequences of both local and global environmental changes.

We use a variety of quantitative, computational and informatic methods to address questions like:

What role do indirect effects play in ecological interactions? How rapidly do they develop?
What processes are required to explain phytoplankton dynamics in the Ross Sea?
What makes an ecosystem sustainable?
How do we quantitatively predict environmental impacts?
What is environment?

If you are interested in learning more, joining us, or collaborating with us, please contact Dr. Stuart Borrett at borretts _at_ uncw _dot_ edu.

Fall 2008: Andria Salas joins the lab to work on her MS in Marine Science. She was awarded the James Merritt scholarship from UNCW.

Spring 2008: Sarah Fann and Tony Kauffman join the lab as they work on Honors projects.

Fall 2007: Dr. Borrett joins UNCW and starts laboratory.