Atticus Murphy

I am an interdisciplinary ecologist interested in understanding how human behaviors collectively produce emergent outcomes for animal populations and landscapes. My work generally focuses on population ecology, conservation, and global change. I have previously worked with monarch butterflies, urban pollinators, and pollinator gardening. In that work, I focused on social contagion of urban gardening, a process through which environmentally friendly practices spread between neighbors, altering the configuration and ecological impacts of these habitat patches. Currently, as an NE CASC Fellow and postdoc working in the Hunter & Dayer Labs at Virginia Tech, I am working to build agent-based models that can improve our understanding of how private landowners respond to sea level rise impacts in the mid-Atlantic, and capture how these behaviors alter landscapes over time.