Takuya (Tak) Iwamura, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Biological Sciences &
Department of Environmental Earth System Science,
Stanford University
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Thank you for visiting my page! I currently work with Dr Jose Fragoso and Prof. Eric Lambin at Stanford University on land use change of the indiginous communities in Guyana. I apply the framework of social-ecological systems (SESs) to understand the feedback mechanism between land use and ecological sustainability (forest cover and biodiversity). I am also associated with Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo.

I finished my PhD on conservation biogeography with Prof Hugh Possingham as my main advisor at the University of Queensland in 2012. I worked with Dr Richard Fuller before moving to California.


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Postdoctoral projects:
  • The impacts of land use change of indigenous communities on biodiversity and carbon storage in Guyana
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Research interests:
  • Social-ecologica systems (SESs)
  • Biodiveristy conservation
  • Systematic conservation planning
  • Spatial prioritization for natural resources
  • Migratory species conservation
  • Impacts of climate change
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Techinques/Tools:
  • Spatial modeling (species distribution modeling etc) 
  • Computer simulation
  • Agent-based modeling (ABM)
  • Graph theory
  • Prioritization algorithm, including software (Marxan)
  • GIS
  • Remote sensing
  • Statistics
  • Computer programming (using: Python, C++, NetLogo, R)

Koala catching and tagging, Queensland, Australia, 2010
News in 2012:
I freely provide global agricultural opportunity cost dataset (Naidoo & Iwamura 2007) here.
I open this pgae in May 2012
I moved to Califronai in Jan 2012
Contact:
takuya@stanford.edu

Lambin lab,
Department of Environmental Earth System Science,
Stanford University,
Y2E2 Bldg. (355), 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A
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