Submission information
Submission Number: 18
Submission ID: 35
Submission UUID: 23557bfd-6bcb-4a50-bfec-821ee9a34c79
Submission URI: /form/project
Created: Tue, 09/03/2019 - 13:28
Completed: Tue, 09/03/2019 - 13:30
Changed: Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:32
Remote IP address: 130.215.55.243
Submitted by: Benjamin Levy
Language: English
Is draft: No
Webform: Project
| Project Title | Individual Based Modeling of Diamondback Terrapins |
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| Program | Northeast |
| Project Leader | Benjamin Levy |
| blevy1@fitchburgstate.edu | |
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| Mentor(s) | Julie Ma |
| Student-facilitator(s) | Ben Burnett, Abigail Waters |
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| Project Description | Diamondback terrapins live in estuarine habitats such as salt marshes, creeks, and tidal flats along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Crab traps pose a significant threat to the population as individuals can become stuck and drown. Additionally, predators and humans regularly destroy the eggs that exist in nests along the shore. We formulate an individual based model using data from a mark-recapture study to assess the impact of crab traps and nest disturbances on the longevity of a localized population. Since individuals perish in crab traps relative to their size and sex, we also quantify how the presence of traps can skew the sex ratio of the population. |
| Project Deliverables | We would like to run simulations that consider different numbers of crab traps and likelihood of nest disturbance to analyze impact on the terrapin population. Each combination of traps and likelihood will require 100 20-year simulations. |
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| Project Institution | Fitchburg State University |
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| Anchor Institution | NE-MGHPCC |
| Preferred Start Date | 02/26/2019 |
| Start as soon as possible. | |
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| Planned Publications (if any) | Levy, B., Windoloski, K., and Ludlam, J. “Modeling Threats to Diamondback Terrapins in North-Inlet Winyah Bay South Carolina”. Submitted to the Journal of Mathematical Biology, September 2019. |
| What will the student learn? | Students will learn how to analyze a code for heap allocation requirements and/or memory leaks. Students may also learn how to transition from a Windows environment to a Linux environment. |
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| What will the Cyberteam program learn from this project? | |
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| Notes | |
| What is the impact on the development of the principal discipline(s) of the project? | Development of our agent-based model for terrapins is a unique contribution to agent-based literature. We have developed unique movement rules for the individuals and explored the relevance of the geographic placement of crab traps. These ideas can be used in any future similar model. |
| What is the impact on other disciplines? | Being an interdisciplinary project, our results also inform the general understanding of diamondback terrapins and have significant management implications for the species. Specifically, we quantify how nest disturbances and how the number and geographic location of crab traps impact future growth of the population, which can be used to make decisions about the number of permits allowed and where traps can be placed. |
| Is there an impact physical resources that form infrastructure? | |
| Is there an impact on the development of human resources for research computing? | The students working on this project created a number of resources that can be used in similar future situations. This included general scripts that can be used as well as an informative poster describing the process. |
| Is there an impact on institutional resources that form infrastructure? | |
| Is there an impact on information resources that form infrastructure? | |
| Is there an impact on technology transfer? | |
| Is there an impact on society beyond science and technology? | Our results inform the general understanding of diamondback terrapins and have significant management implications for the species. Specifically, we quantify how nest disturbances and how the number and geographic location of crab traps impact future growth of the population, which can be used to make decisions about the number of permits allowed and where traps can be placed. |
| Lessons Learned | |
| Overall results | Our results inform the general understanding of diamondback terrapins and have significant management implications for the species. Specifically, we quantify how nest disturbances and how the number and geographic location of crab traps impact future growth of the population, which can be used to make decisions about the number of permits allowed and where traps can be placed. |