Nicholas Skaff

Dr. Nicholas Skaff is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University's College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, while also serving as an Environmental Public Health Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His work bridges ecology, epidemiology, and data science to address environmental determinants of human health crises.

• PhD in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University
• Postdoctoral research in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley

His research focuses on:

• Developing machine learning models for forecasting health crises
• Creating data visualizations for public health communication
• Assessing climate-event interactions with land cover affecting mosquito-borne diseases
• Investigating environmental drivers of West Nile virus transmission
• Global freshwater lake conservation using macroscale ecological analyses

Scientific contributions include:

• Environmental health modeling with CDC-NASA data integration
• Climate-sensitive disease forecasting systems
• Urban vector habitat mapping
• Chloride contamination tracking in freshwater ecosystems
• Development of collaborative research methodologies

Scientific awards:

• Environmental Public Health Fellow at CDC

Collaborative networks include:

• FW Data-Intensive Landscape Limnology Lab
• Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network