Auteur: Janice L. Pappas

Janice L. Pappas has BA, BS and Ph D degrees from the University of Michigan and an MA degree from Drake University. She is a mathematical biologist researching diatoms and invertebrates. She is a Great Lakes aquatic ecologist with studies on-board research vessels and in the lab, resulting in computational analyses of fish distributions in coastal wetlands and ecological informatics analysis of phytoplankton seasonal succession. Other studies include applications to diatom studies using Morse theory and morphospace dynamics, fuzzy measures in systematics, vector spaces in ecological analysis, information theory and Hamiltonian mechanics in morphogenesis, optimization, group and probability theory in macroevolutionary processes, and applied computer vision techniques in diatom imaging studies.