Caleb J. Robbins, PhD
How do aquatic ecosystems and communities function in the context of their broader terrestrial landscapes and anthropogenic threats such as eutrophication and climate change? I am broadly interested in applying data science and modeling to understand how aquatic ecosystems fundamentally work and respond to global change, especially over watershed or larger spatial scales. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, where I lead a statewide synthesis of aquatic invertebrate data sets. I use a wide diversity of techniques to study ecological systems - statistical and process based modeling, observational and experimental field work, and data synthesis - and find myself increasingly pulled toward prediction and forecasting as means for testing scientific understanding, identifying new hypotheses, and anticipating environmental change.