Erin L Landguth, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Public and Community Health Sciences and Center for Population Health Research. Email: erin.landguth@mso.umt.edu Office: 302 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT My research focus is in Computational Landscape Ecology: Developing, optimizing, and applying simulation programs for understanding relationships between biological processes and population patterns across landscapes. I am also pursuing work to improve air pollution exposure models and the modeling of factors that influence respiratory health, specifically for rural populations like Montana. |
Allen Warren
Senior Software and Systems Engineer, School of Public and Community Health Sciences and Center for Population Health Research Email: allen.warren@umontana.edu Office: 210 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT I work on a range of both hardware and software development tasks, data assimilation, processing and analyses. I have designed, built, and maintained all of CEL's HPC servers, as well as many other labs on campus including the UM Griz HPC (ICARE NSF funded). I work with 'big data' in both space and time on a daily basis through designing and coding of open source web interactive map servers and distribution real-time climate and satellite data utilizing a range of Opensource libraries and APIs. |
Alan Swanson
Research Analyst and Data Scientist, School of Public and Community Health Sciences and Center for Population Health Research Email: alan.swanson@umontana.edu Office: 214 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT I work with data and modeling from a range of disciplines, including public health and epidemiology, ecology, remote sensing and forest ecology. I process, model and analyze remotely sensed data through Google Earth Engine, and apply spatial and spatio-temporal statistical modeling through various algorithms. |
Casey Day, PhD
Research Scientist, School of Public and Community Health Sciences and Affiliate Faculty, Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana Email: casey.day@mso.umt.edu Office: 213 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT I am a behavioral landscape ecologist interested in combining movement ecology with simulation modeling to explore relationships between landscapes, animal behavior, and eco-evolutionary processes - often with implications for conservation and management. |
Ava Orr
Graduate Student, Toxicology, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Population Health Research. Email: ava.orr@umconnect.umt.edu Office: 214 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT Ava is working to understand the connection between the delayed effects of wildfire PM2.5 on subsequent influenza seasons. When she is not doing educational pursuits, Ava enjoys spending time with her corgi Edith, attempting to wrangle her 100,000+ bees, and perfecting the art of pie for her 2022 county fair entry. |
Emily Coyle, MPH
Graduate Student, School of Public and Community Health Sciences Email: emily.coyle@umconnect.umt.edu Office: 214 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT Emily is researching how can public health better assist health care providers and parents of small children in reducing exposure and mitigating respiratory health effects among children related to wildfire smoke. |
Zachary A Holden, PhD
Ecologist, US Forest Service and Affiliate Faculty, School of Public and Community Health Sciences Email: zachary.holden@usda.gov Office: 214 Skaggs, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula MT I currently work as a scientist for the US Forest Service in Missoula, Montana. I work primarily in the fields of landscape ecology, remote sensing and mountain climatology. Mountains create steep biophysical and climatic gradients that pose unique modeling challenges. My current research focuses on predicting climate to the scale of terrain and using those models to improve our understanding of disturbance and vegetation dynamics. I have a strong interest in developing models and tools that bridge the gap between research and management. |
Eric Palm, PhD
Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Montana Email: eric.palm@umontana.edu I'm interested how animals respond to human-caused and natural disturbances and to different types of environmental change. Currently I'm working to model habitat selection and landscape connectivity for several mammal species in the Rocky Mountains of western North America. |