Marcus Daniels will give a TechTalk today at 3:00 pm at sfX on disease transmission between deer infected with Bovine Tuberculosis and cattle in the northern counties of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
Marcus will discuss his work with USDA and the Michigan Wildlife Service using an extensive dataset developed by the state of Michigan that tracks harvested deer down to the square mile. His work also used an agent-based model simulating the activities of several hundred thousand deer to predict how disease proliferation might be controlled. In the model, the deer reproduce, move around a home range of realistic size, and die, at realistic rates for their age and sex. This allowed the state to estimate the disease risk to cattle in the vicinity of the simulated sick deer. Marcus proposes to expand the original study with additional data that are now available. Anyone interested in participating in this project or curious about his earlier work is welcome to attend. --- Don Begley Managing Director Santa Fe Complex a community studio creating connections across science, technology and art 624 Agua Fria Santa Fe, NM 87501 www.sfcomplex.org 505/216.7562 505/670.9432 (cell) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
