BARRACUDA

Barracuda is a research project funded by a National Science Foundation EPSCoR grant, and is a collaboration between two research groups at the University of Maine (UM) and the University of Vermont (UVM). Barracuda stands for "Biodiversity and Rural Response to Climate Change Using Data Analysis."... Barracuda, an interdisciplinary research initiative led by the University of Maine, will build some of the first mechanistic models of shifts in species ranges in response to climate change-driving both significant workforce development and the creation of new spatiotemporal data tools... Our mission is to harness diverse current and historic data and new mechanistic models across the continental United States to help us better predict and adapt to climate change impacts on biodiversity and rural communities.