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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.

Ms. Emily Oxe will be joining the lab this fall as she begins her MS Biology.

Mr. Hines will present his work at the ASM meeting in June. Dr. Borrett will present new centrality results at the American Fisheries Society meeting in August.

Congratulations to Monty Carter on his graduation from UNCW!

David Hines and Jess Lisa presented their work at the 2011 Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation meeting in Daytona Beah, FL

Dr. Borrett, David Hines, and Monty Carter presented work at the ISEM 2011 meeting in Beijing, China.

John Mejaski joined the laboratory to work on modeling the urban water metabolism of Wilmington, NC.

Borrett et al.'s article titled Equivalence of the ecological network analysis realized input and output oriented indirect effects metric was recently published in Ecological Modelling (doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.003)

We've learned new tricks to visualize our network models in R. See here and click on software & data/models tab to learn more.