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<h1 class="display-4"> Brendan Allison: <span class ="multicolortext">Computational Ecologist</span></h1>
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Predictive Ecology and the Rise of Big Data
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Concerns about widespread ecological “dark data” have long existed, centuries of fieldwork locked away in private datasets.
Even when accessible, inconsistent data collection and storage methodologies can make largescale computational analysis difficult, due to datasets not playing well with each other.
Yet increasingly diverse and systematic data collection is now widespread, whether in citizen science and species occurrence data; trait-based databases; phylogenetic surveys; biogeochemistry; trace gas sensing networks or an array of remote sensing products.
Along with this flood of heterogeneous data, we have questions, involving scaling, ecological patterning and deep statistical analysis that seem perfectly suited to those data-driven tools that have so famously transformed other disciplines.
The very pace and scope of change is itself an intellectual tangle. Ecosystems that embed millions of years of evolutionary history and historical contingencies are being transformed on the scale of decades.
In all this is the potential for a new sort of ecology to contribute to some very old questions, from the generation and role of biodiversity in provisioning ecosystem services to nonlinear interplays between patterns of land-use, vegetation, local weather and a shifting global climate.
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For my part, I am just at the start of this journey. I include a few publications from the biochemistry side of my experience to get things started--stay tuned for computational ecology (including a much more active Github)!
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<li>Allison, Brendan W., et al. "Surface Effect Dominates Water Diffusion at Nanoscopic Length Scales." <i>Diffusion NMR of Confined Systems.</i> 2016. 529-567.</li>
<li>Song, Jinsuk, Brendan Allison, and Songi Han. "Local water diffusivity as a molecular probe of surface hydrophilicity." <i>MRS Bulletin 39.12</i> (2014): 1082-1088.</li>
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