About Biosphere

Our Mission

Inform the public, scientists, and professionals about the human impact on the biodiversity of Earth’s ecosystems

Background

Biosphere was created in August 2020. It was formed as a result of the CS Capstone sequence at Northern Arizona University (NAU). We were tasked with creating an app that could display the complex data that comes from the Madingley Model. In future iterations of this application, we hope to add support for more languages and to include more scenario options.

The Team

{{ 'contactpage.developer' | translate }} Kainoa Boyce Kainoa graduated from NAU in April 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science. Kainoa's professional experiences include cloud systems engineering, machine learning, and website designing.
{{ 'contactpage.developer' | translate }} McKenna Chun In April 2021, McKenna received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. For this application, he focused on the translations, data exportation, and the visualizations seen on the results page.
{{ 'contactpage.developer' | translate }} Gregory Geary Greg earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Greg has professional experience with both front and backend web development. He currently works for W.L. Gore. For this application, he focused his work on the API Gateway.
{{ 'contactpage.developer' | translate }} Wesley Smythe Wesley graduated in April 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Biology. For this app, he focused on the frontend (Google Maps components).
{{ 'contactpage.sponsor' | translate }} Christopher Doughty Since 2016, Dr. Doughty has been an assistant professor at NAU. He is also one of the lead researchers at the Megabiota Lab; where they study how climate change impacts tropical forests.
{{ 'contactpage.assistant' | translate }} Camille Gaillard Camille is a postdoctoral researcher working with NASA on the biodiversity project. His research questions involve traits, trade-offs and key mechanisms. His aim is to produce relevant science, from an academic perspective, as well as, for society.
{{ 'contactpage.supervisor' | translate }} Andrew Abraham Andrew completed his master's degree at Oxford University and in 2021 he finished his PhD at NAU. He studied the role of animals on nutrient distribution using the Madingley Model.

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