Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY 2002

Schoennagel Tania, Madison WI

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Abstract

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2002. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training the future workforce. The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Modeling the influence of climate change on fire regimes and successional patterns in topographically diverse landscapes in the Rocky Mountains." Understanding the response of fire regimes to variation in regional climate and local topography is critical to predicting potential effects of global warming in forested ecosystems. This research combines dendrochronology and GIS techniques to model potential responses of fire regimes and successional patterns to plausible climate change scenarios within two national parks in the Rocky Mountains.