New Publication in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

I first authored an article in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology entitled “Multiple ‘spaces’: using wildlife surveillance, climatic variables, and spatial satitics to identify and map a climatic niche for endemic plague in California”. We estimated plague-suitable local climates and mapped them in California using coyotes (Canis latrans) tested for plague exposure by the California Department of Public Health - Vector-Bourne Disease Section. We applied spatial point processes within a space composed to two principal components of a principal component analysis of Oregon State University PRISM Climate Group 30-year average climate variables. The analysis was conducted using the envi package in R that I previously published. This is the first publication from my doctoral dissertation research.