PROMOTING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN INDIA AND THE U.S.
Biology
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
“There are two main branches to my work: indirect effects and inductive process modeling. Indirect effects allow one species to affect the distribution, abundance, and behavior or other species with out direct contact. They create a hidden environment of interactions that integrate communities into functional systems. My primary approach has been the analysis of network models of energy–matter flux in ecosystems. I am also helping to develop and applying a new computational approach to facilitate model construction called Inductive Process Modeling. Currently, I am using this approach to build and evaluate ecosystem models of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, to explain the observed spatial variability in the phytoplankton community.”