Ethan Deyle, PhD

Ethan Deyle is a Research Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University and a quantitative marine ecologist, exploring ecological questions on a spectrum from theoretical to imminently practical through a common language of nonlinear mathematics. The broadest goal for the work is growing a data science for natural systems, designed to test existing hypotheses and theory from observational data. Science regularly boils down to questions about causality and mechanism, and thus focusing on time-series approaches to understanding complex or nonlinear interactions in ecosystems has created a framework with remarkable generality across ecosystems and scale.

Domains of Interest: Quantitative Ecology, Environmental Data Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, Applied Complex Systems, Marine Ecology.

Subjects: Empirical Dynamic Modeling, Ecological Forecasting, Coupled Human-Natural Systems, Physical-Biological Coupling, Causal Inference, Resilience, Ecosystem-Based (Fisheries) Management, Global change biology.

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