From bees to bison, animals must move across complex landscapes to survive. Such movement can happen in the course of a day on a single plant or in response to seasons for continental-scale migrations. Regardless of scale, how internal cues, other animals, and landscape characteristics like temperature, water, and food mediate movement is largely unknown for most animals. WyldTech harnesses new technology and high performance computing, while capitalizing on ongoing projects and existing data, to characterize landscapes and track animals across scales to facilitate human-animal coexistence in a changing world. The overall research question motivating the Center is:
How can new approaches to animal bio-logging, environmental informatics, and computational workflows advance the management and conservation of Wyoming’s diverse wildlife?
Our vision is to leverage new technologies, big data, and computational advances to understand and conserve Wyoming's wildlife on working and changing landscapes.
To achieve our vision, we build inclusive spaces supporting productive interdisciplinary collaborations that advance the frontiers of knowledge, provide management guidance for human wildlife coexistence, and yield products useful to the state of Wyoming and beyond.
