Empower Researchers with Scientific Workbenches
Develop the software necessary to handle and organize large environmental datasets coming from scientific instrumentation and computer simulations.

• The Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench - Overview | Publication
• NEPTUNE: Real e-Scince, Real Discovery - Video

Enhance Biological Comprehension
Utilize advanced methods and tools designed in Computer Science to model and analyze biological systems.

• MSR Computational Biology - Website
• The Stochastic Pi Machine - Tool
• Environmental Scenario Search Engine - Tool
• Seabird's Ocean Lifestyle Revealed - News
• Toward Verified Biological Models - Publication
• Migration and Stopover in a Small Pelagic Seabird - Publication
• Compilation and Network Analyses of Cambrian Food Webs - Publication
• Allometric Scaling Enhances Stability in Complex Food Webs - Publication

Advance Global Understanding of Ecological Systems
Develop novel computational tools and methods to predict and mitigate the rapid changes occurring in the earth's life support systems.

• MSR Computational Ecology - Website
• Rich Williams: On Computational Ecology and Working at MSR - Video
• Understanding Climate Change - One Tree at a Time - Article
• MSR Scientist Highlights Urgent Need for New Kinds of Computer Models to Address Climate Change - Press Release
• Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics - Publication
• Predicting and Understanding Forest Dynamics Using a Simple Tractable Mode - Publication
• Animal Versus Wind Dispersal and the Robustness of Tree Species to Deforestation - Publication
• When is a Species Extinct? Quantitative Inference of Threat and Extinction from Herbarium Data - Publication
• A New Spatially Implicit Model Parameterized for 250 North American Tree Species - Publication
• GrOWL: A Tool for Visualization and Editing of OWL Ontologies - Tool

Design Field Research Solutions for Environmental Scientists
Explore new features in devices used in the collection of biodiversity data, including TabletPC image annotation and retrieval tools.

• Image Annotation and Retrieval Tool (Biodiversity) - Publication | Information Sheet

Enhance Research Community Collaboration
Leverage technology to enable researchers to do more science and discovery in a collaborative and data-rich environment.

• InfoMesa Project - Blog Post