Kathleen Prudic

Associate Professor, Citizen and Data Science

Member of the Graduate Faculty

Associate Director, Graduate Student Advancement

Environment and Natural Res. 2, N313

Kathleen ‘Katy' Prudic is an entomologist interested in discovering how ecological and evolutionary interactions promote biodiversity and how they can inform conservation decision making.

She is co-director of eButterfly, an online citizen science platform that harnesses the observations of thousands of butterfly enthusiasts across the globe to understand how and when butterflies and other pollinators react to environmental changes.

Her research encompasses precision conservation, human-computer networks, and data science.

Her discoveries have been published in as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Behavioral Ecology and covered by Associated Press, BBC, CBC, National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine.

She teaches Sustainable Earth (RNR 150) online and R Programming (RNR 620) for the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at Arizona.

Research Interest

Biodiversity, Butterflies, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Machine Learning, Plant-Animal Interactions, Pollinators, Research Computing, Restoration, Wildlife

Offering Research Opportunities

Yes

Prerequisite Courses

(Paid Opportunities will be advertised in Handshake, Please have students email professor directly with their expertise, research interests, and amount of time they can commit), Research areas are Conservation, Citizen Science, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, R Programming, Species Distribution Modeling

Majors Considered

Environmental Science, SNRE, EEB, Plant Sciences, School of Information

Types of Opportunities

Paid

Volunteer

For credit

Description of Opportunity

No description given

Start Date

August 2019