After receiving a Ph.D. in Ecosystem Dynamics from the Australian National University in 1992, I worked as a consultant (WHO, Parks and Wildlife, Land and Natural Resources services) until moving to the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California San Diego in 1997. There I helped to develop computational and data intensive infrastructure for ecological niche modeling mainly using museum collections data with grants from the NSF, USGS and DOT. I developed the GARP (Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Production) system making contributions in many fields: modeling of invasive species, epidemiology of human diseases, the discovery of seven new species of chameleon in Madagascar, and effects on species of climate change. I have published in major journals and was judged by the US Immigration Service as an Outstanding Researcher, recognized internationally as outstanding in their academic field.

Selected Publications

Publications and citations from Google Scholar

David R.B. Stockwell (in press), Analytical solutions for minimizing erosion of earthen roadside structures (in press) 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Brisbane, Australia.

David R.B. Stockwell (in press), Critique of drought models in the Australian Drought Exceptional Circumstances Report (DECR), Energy & Environment.

David R.B. Stockwell 2009. Recent climate observations: Disagreement with projections (2009), Energy & Environment, 20:4 PDF

David R.B. Stockwell 2008. A Stratospheric Compensation Model of Climate Change, AIG News, 92, May 2008. pp12-13. PDF

Botkin, Daniel B.; Saxe, Henrik; Araujo, Miguel B.; Betts, Richard; Bradshaw, Richard H.W.; Cedhagen, Tomas; Chesson, Peter; Dawson, Terry P.; Etterson, Julie R.; Faith, Daniel P.; Ferrier, Simon; Guisan, Antoine; Hansen, Anja Skjoldborg; Hilbert, David W.; Loehle, Craig; Margules, Chris; New, Mark; Sobel, Matthew J.; Stockwell, David R.B., 2007. Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity. BioScience, 57:3 PDF

Stockwell, David ; Shaner, Stephen ; Tate, D Jean; Bork, Karrigan ; Dougherty, Sean; 2006. Integrating Transportation Network Data into Predictive Models for Invasive Species. Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Paper #06-2416, (Abstract).

Sen Zhang Katherine G. Herbert Jason T. L. Wang William H. Piel, David R. B. Stockwell, 2006. PhyloMiner: A Tool for Evolutionary Data Analysis, 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, July 3-5, 2006, Vienna, Austria.

Stockwell, D.R.B. 2006. Reconstruction of past climate using series with red noise Australian Institute of Geoscientists News, 83: pp14. PDF

David R.B. Stockwell, 2006. Improving ecological niche models by data mining large environmental datasets for surrogate models, Ecological Modelling 192 188–196. PDF

Stockwell, D.R.B., Beach J.H., Stewart A., Vorontsov G., Vieglais D., and Scachetti Pereira R. 2006. The use of the GARP genetic algorithm and Internet grid computing in the Lifemapper world atlas of species biodiversity, Ecological Modelling. 195: 139-145. PDF

Stockwell, D.R.B. and Wang J.T.L., 2005. Biomonitoring, Phylogenetics and Anomaly Aggregation Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3495, Apr 2005, Pages 523 – 529

Linke, S., Norris, R.H., Faith, D.P. and Stockwell, D. 2005. ANNA: A new prediction method for bioassessment programs. Freshwater Biology 50:1, 147.

Stockwell DRB, Peterson AT, 2002. Effects of sample size on accuracy of species distribution models Ecological Modelling 148 (1): 1-13 FEB 1 2002 PDF

Stockwell D., A. Townsend Peterson, 2003. Comparison of resolution of methods used in mapping biodiversity patterns from point-occurrence data. Ecological Indicators 3 (2003) 213 221. PDF

Stockwell DRB, Noble IR, 1992. Induction of sets of rules from animal distribution data – a robust and informative method of data-analysis. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 33 (5-6): 385-390 APR 1992 PDF

Stockwell D.R.B. and D. Peters 1999. The GARP Modeling System: problems and solutions to automated spatial prediction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 13:2 143-158 PDF.

Stockwell, D.R.B. 1999 Genetic Algorithms II. Pp 123-144 in A.H. Fielding
(ed) Machine Learning Methods for Ecological Applications. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston. 

Boston AN. and Stockwell DRB. 1995. Interactive species distribution reporting, mapping and modelling using the World Wide Web Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 28 (1995) 231-238 PDF

Stockwell DRB, Davey SM, Davis JR, Noble IR, 1990. Using induction of decision trees to predict Greater Glider density. AI Applications in Natural Resource Management 4 (4): 33-43 1990

Stockwell DRB. 1997. Generic Predictive Systems: An Empirical Evaluation Using the Learning Base System (LBS) Expert Systems Wirh Applications Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 301-310, 1997 PDF

Applications

A. Townsend Peterson, Miguel A. Ortega-Huerta, Jeremy Bartley, Victor Sánchez-Cordero, Jorge Soberón, Robert H. Buddemeier, David R. B. Stockwell, Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios. Nature 416, 626 – 629 (11 Apr 2002) Letters to Nature. PDF

Joseph, L. and D.R.B. Stockwell, 2002. Climatic modeling of the distribution of some Pyrrhura parakeets of northwestern South America with notes on their systematics and special reference to Pyrrhura caeruleiceps Todd, 1947, Ornitologia Neotropical 13:1-8

Joseph, L. and D. Stockwell 2000. Temperature based models of the migration
of Swainson’s flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni across South America:
a new use for museum specimens of migratory birds. Proceedings of the
Academy of Natural Sciences 150.

Stockwell D.R.B. Image in 1999 Searching Museums from your desktop. Science 284: 888a (in News of the week) 

 Stockwell D.R.B. and A.T. Peterson 2001. Controlling bias during
predictive modeling with museum data. In Scott J.M., Heglund P.J., Morrison
M., Raphael M., Haufler J., Wall B., Samson F., eds. Predicting Plant,
Animal and Fungi Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy, Clovelo
(CA) Island Press 

Vieglais D.A., D.R.B Stockwell, C.M. Cundari, J. Beach, A.T. Peterson,
and L. Krishtalka 1998. The species analyst: Tools enabling a comprehensive
distributed biodiversity network. Biodiversity, Biotechnology & Biobusiness,
2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Biotechnology, 23-27 November, Perth, Western
Australia

Review documents

David R.B. Stockwell, Overview
of Computational Biodiversity Research

David R.B. Stockwell, Progress
in Biodiversity Modelling using Museum Data in Australia Transcript
of presentation to Kansas Museum of Natural History

Peter Arzberger, David Stockwell, John Helly Supercomputer
Center Collaborations with the Natural History Community: US-OBI and other
examples Delivered at Association of Systematic Collections: Session
on Informatics and Networking – The World Outside the Biological Collections
Community, Atlanta on April 25, 1999