Urmila Malvadkar
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Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Ave.
Northfield, MN 55057
Tel: (507) 645-5979
Email:
Web page:
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/math/faculty.html#malvadka
Education
Ph.D., Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, 2002
B.Sc., Mathematics and Environmental Science, Vanderbilt University, 1997
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Research Interests
For the Bahamas Biocomplexity Project, Urmila Malvadkar has been modeling the effects of marine reserves on the survival of species with different dispersal strategies and life histories. These models will also include humans' economic response to the creation of marine reserves.
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Selected Publications
Sanchirico, J.N., U. Malvadkar, A. Hastings, and J.E. Wilen. 2006. When are no-take zones an economically optimal fishery management strategy? Ecological Applications 16(5): 1643-1659.
Boughton, D. and U. Malvadkar. 2002. Extinction risk in successional landscapes subject to catastrophic disturbances. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 2.
Boughton, D. and U. Malvadkar. 2002. Extinction risk in successional landscapes subject to catastrophic disturbances. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 2.
Malvadkar, U. and S. Levin. In review. Optimal migratory behavior for Calanus finmarchicus.
Malvadkar, U. and S. Levin. In review. The evolution of diel vertical migration in zooplankton.
Malvadkar, U. and A. Hastings. In review. The effectiveness of marine protected areas for a mobile species.
Malvadkar, U. In prep. Investigations of stochastic dynamics in ecosystems.
Malvadkar, U. and J. Sanchirico. In prep. Optimal control of a patchy fish habitat.