Case Study: NASA achieves improved conservation and migration modeling with JuliaHub’s Circuitscape

NASA supports hundreds of Circuitscape studies with JuliaHub

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is a supporter of Circuitscape, a tool that addresses the challenge of modeling landscape connectivity for conservation and understanding the spread of diseases. They needed a solution to apply the theory of isolation by resistance, which models how animals, plants, and genes move through landscapes, to critical ecological and health projects. The vendor, JuliaHub, provided the platform for Circuitscape.jl, a Julia-based tool that enables these complex simulations.

JuliaHub's solution, Circuitscape.jl, leverages the high performance of the Julia language to allow scientists to efficiently model connectivity. This has resulted in its use for significant projects, including protecting tigers in India, tracking bobcats in New Hampshire, modeling the spread of HIV in Africa, and understanding the impact of climate change on animal migration across North America. The tool, supported by JuliaHub, has become a foundational resource in landscape ecology, cited in hundreds of research papers since its creation.

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