Modeling historical climate sensitivites of global biodiversity

As a research engineer on the pan-European ClimTip project, I generated multi-model reconstructions of species climate niche limits, which represent the most extreme conditions of a particular climate variable experienced over its realized geographic range. This entailed coupling daily-scale geospatial data of temperature and precipitation over the last 80 years with species range data to identify limiting values in 44 climate variables, representing maxima/minima of temperature/precipitation, variability and seasonality of climate, and the frequency, duration, intensity, and severity of extreme climate events (namely, heat-waves, cold-spells, and droughts).

Through this, I produced a user-friendly database to aid climate change vulnerability assessments, incorporating multiple variables, models, and thresholds of risk into an integrative and flexible framework.

This work is currently under review for publication.