Simulating Habitat Preferences and Stock Assessment of Atlantic Fish Under the Pressures of Climate
The Northeast United States continental shelf spans from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the Gulf of Maine. Fish stocks in this...
Impact of Data Structure, Availability, and Noise Distribution on Parameter Identifiability
In 2020 I was accepted into one of the American Mathematical Society’s (AMS) Mathematics Research Community (MRC) working groups. The...
Modeling the effect of HIV/AIDS stigma on HIV infection dynamics in Kenya.
This project is in collaboration with the Masamu Advanced Study Institute (MASI). MASI is an international institute funded by the...
A Vaccination Model for COVID-19 in South Africa
The COVID-19 virus has spread to all corners of the world leaving researchers with countless questions related to the disease. In the...
A Spatial Model for Contaminants in the Nashua River Watershed
During the summer of 2019, I was a faculty mentor of the interdisciplinary Collaborative Summer Research Experience (CSRE) at Fitchburg...
Assessing Threats to Diamondback Terrapins in a Coastal Carolina Salt Marsh.
This project was conducted in the summer of 2018 with a senior mathematics major. This work was published in Mathematical Biosciences....
Pseudorabies in Feral Hogs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Pseudorabies is a herpesvirus that is relatively harmless to hogs but is deadly to a number of other wild and domestic animals. Since it...
Region Level Indicators for the Ebola Virus in West Africa
FULL PUBLICATION HERE The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) poses a significant threat to the human race. The resurgence of this highly...
Evaluating Feral Hog Preferences and Control Strategies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
FULL PUBLICATION HERE Since a considerable amount of time and money are spent on the control program, officials have a vested interest in...
Metapopulation Model for Feral Hogs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
FULL PUBLICATION HERE I used a discrete metapopulation model to evaluate the importance of the Park’s control program, estimate key...