Chloe Lewis

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My main interest is feedbacks in the soil; my current (dissertation) project is testing a hypothesis that Mima mound microtopography is generated by emergent, bottom-up interactions between biotic and abiotic factors. I have spent the winter doing fieldwork for that, mapping time-series of phenology, water and rodent activity in the Central Valley of California.

Soil science studies the interaction of biology, geology, climate, and hydrology, so is a nice background for anything outdoors. Previously I was a test `engineer' in a big software company, and originally a math undergraduate.

Fieldwork has given me many ideas to make my CA model of mound formation more descriptive, or testable, or both. I look forward to making the math and programming stronger with a month at the CSSS.

I also have a fairly goofy project in mind that might be interesting to human interface designers or theoreticians of mutual evolution -- and it's not in my research program, so I'm hoping a group of interested people take it up. I've written up Sporkvolution on my website:

http://nature.berkeley.edu/~chlewis/?p=199