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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 2009: The lab successfully presented 4 papers and 2 posters at the International Society for Ecological Modeling meeting held in Quebec City, Canda October 6-9, 2009. Click here for more details

Spring 2009: Ms. Salas presented her research at UNCW's "Darwin's Legacy: Evolution's Impact on Science and Culture," a multidisciplinary student conference on March 19-21, 2009.

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