A monumental achievement by Christophe Brabant – a member of the Quantitative Biodiversity Lab – co-supervised by Dr. Laura Pollock and Dr. Lars Iverson. The first chapter of his PhD is now published in Science and is featured on the cover. In this study, the authors mapped 45 threats across more than 21,000 freshwater species…

From left to right: Max, Laura, Pepe. ABC (AI for Biodiversity Change) Global Center convened all-hands at Columbus, Ohio from October 15-17, 2026. The Quantitative Biodiversity Lab was there to represent biodiversity scientists looking to bridge the gap between AI and technology for nature.

The Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America was held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s theme was Ecology in the Age of Uncertainty Laura presented in the session How Will AI Change Ecology? She talked about some pretty ‘hot-takes’ in the field including: ‘Do we even need to teach students to code?’…

Laura presented at the World Biodiversity Forum in June at Davos, Switzerland to talk about how we can reimagining adaptive sampling.

Laura and Isaac attend DeepSDM Day 2026 at Sion, Switzerland On June 12th. The day featured keynotes (one from Laura!), short talks, and posters that touch on species distribution modelling with deep learning.

We’re excited to welcome Maho Horikawa, our new Master’s student joining us this fall. She is one of our stars in the Blitz the Gap project and can’t wait to see what she’ll do next.

Another amazing year of blitzing the gap Join us again this summer for the Canadian wide bioblitz

Huge congratulations to Dr. Serrano for passing her thesis PhD defence! Her work on global threats to biodiversity is a great addition to the field. We’re so proud of you!

We’re excited to launch our new Instagram account @quantitativebiodiversitylab! Follow along for behind-the-scenes looks at blitz the gap, new publications, lab life, and the latest in biodiversity research. Give us a follow and join the community!

Highlights from Half-Earth Day 2024