AB Scientist: Nicholas Friedenberg
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Nicholas Friedenberg |
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Nicholas Friedenberg received his B.A. in biology from Carleton College and his Ph.D. under Mark McPeek in Dartmouth College's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Nick joined the company in 2007 and has since worked on projects supported by USDA, DHS, SERDP, USACE, and EPRI.
Nick's work at Applied Biomathematics focuses on population and community dynamics. He is currently involved in a project to help guide and understand efforts to conserve threatened river sturgeon populations through population viability analysis models and management scenario exploration. He is also developing software for forest pest risk analysis. The tool will increase the ease with which RAMAS ecological software handles pest/pathogen interactions with hosts.
Nick Friedenberg is also a research scientist in the Dykhuizen lab at Stony Brook University, where he pursues questions regarding experimental evolution of bacterial populations in chemostats.
Selected publications
Friedenberg, N.A., S. Sarkar, N. Kouchoukos, R.F. Billings, M.P. Ayres. 2008. Temperature extremes, density dependence, and southern pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) population dynamics in east Texas. Environmental Entomlogy 37: 650-659 pdf
Friedenberg, N.A., J.A. Powell, M.P. Ayres. 2007. Synchrony's double edge: transient dynamics and the Allee effect in stage structured populations. Ecology Letters 10: 564-573 pdf
Dennehy, J.J., N.A. Friedenberg, Y. Yang, P.E. Turner. 2007. Virus population extinction via ecological traps. Ecology Letters 10: 230-240 pdf
Dennehy, J.J., N.A. Friedenberg, R.D. Holt, P.E. Turner. 2006. Viral ecology and the maintenance of novel host use. American Naturalist 167: 429-439 pdf
Friedenberg, N.A. 2003. Experimental evolution of dispersal
in spatiotemporally variable microcosms. Ecology Letters 6: 937 pdf