Lab Contact Information: Rob Guralnick PI
Associate Curator of Biodiversity Informatics
Department of Natural History and the Florida Museum of Natural History
Office: 358 Dickinson Hall
Labs:: 359, 288-289 Dickinson Hall.
PhD Students: Gaurav Vaidya, Nate Kleist Project Staff: Rafael LaFrancePostdoctoral Students: Hannah Owens, Ryan Folk, Narayani Barve, Vijay Barve, Stephen Mayor, Brian Stucky, Julie Allen, Jess Oswald |
We are biodiversity scientists and our research focuses on what causes spatiotemporal changes in genetic and species diversity. We take an
integrative approach to global change biology and the skills in lab range
from occupancy modeling to spatial ecological modeling, to landscape
genetics, to molecular phylogenetics. The diversity in lab is also its
strength -- we continue to discover that the interesting questions are the
integrative ones that require multiple lines of evidence.
occurrence data (when and where species and populations occur) available
from natural history collections and citizen science naturalists, we are very
involved in ecological and biodiversity informatics initiatives to increase the
quality, availability and utility of such datasets at the global scale. Our
particular informatics interest is building web-based tools so that anyone may
access, visualize and analyze legacy and current biodiversity distribution and
environmental data. I primarily work on gastropod molluscs but students work
on a variety of organisms including mammals, snakes, insects and viruses. Our work, both at the level of landscape and taxon, often has applied utility in the area of conservation biology. |