Nicholas Preston
Nico Preston recently completed a Ph.D. in Limnology and Marine Science (UW-Madison) on carbon cycling and the influence of climate variability on aquatic organisms. He is currently a postdoc at the UW-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), where he is developing web applications for mapping and analyzing the environmental determinants of infectious disease emergence and resurgence. He is interested in topics combining ecology, health and computing, particularly if they involve water. When not in the office he enjoys being a disaster response volunteer, natural history, ski patrol, hiking with the dog and playing ice hockey.