Michael Dietze, PhD

Michael Dietze leads the Ecological Forecasting Laboratory, the mission of which is to better understand and predict ecological systems; he is the author of Ecological Forecasting. He is interested in the ways that iterative forecasts, which are continually confronted with new data, can improve and accelerate basic environmental science, while at the same time making that science more directly relevant to society. Overall, the lab approaches these problems through a balanced combination of field research, novel statistical methods, numerical models, and ecoinformatics tools.