CarrieCCS

My research interests are in applied mathematics, mathematical modeling, ecology and epidemiology. I've worked on multi-host models for exotic species invasion and the spread of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus in California grasslands with colleagues from ecology; general mathematical models for competition between species with a shared disease; and a hybrid network model for the spread of diseases in livestock in the United States.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Tulane University. While continuing previous research, I'm now working on modeling mosquito-borne diseases including Rift Valley fever (see this Tulane Wave article), dengue, and chikungunya. We are adapting large scale spatial agent-based models for human movement with person to person transmission (such as EpiSims at LANL) to include mosquito-borne disease. I am interested in the role of spatial and temporal variability in weather, landscape, etc. as they effect risk of vector-borne disease spread.