Louis J. Gross

Recent Publications

• Individual-based ecological models: Spatial models for undergraduate investigation. Handout for Mathematics for Life Sciences Students Conference, Iowa State University, May 17-18, 1996 Text file
• Published WWW version here
• Approaches to Large-scale Ecosystem Modeling Across Multiple Trophic Levels: Some Early Lessons from the South Florida ATLSS Experience From: J. B. Waide and L. M. Gandy (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling and Assessment Techniques for Application within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. pp. 71-76, April 1998. Waterways Experiment Station Miscellaneous Paper EL-98-1. Postscript file (40K)
• Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the New Millennium Postscript file (124K)
• Mentoring in a Distributed World. D-Lib Magazine September 1998 Link to On-Line Editorial
• USE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MODELS - Draft of article for Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Postscript file Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
• Multimodeling: New approaches for linking ecological models - Draft of article for 1999 Symposium on Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy Postscript file Figure 1
• Comiskey, E. J., O. L. Bass, Jr., L. J. Gross, R. T. McBride, and R. Salinas. 2002. Panthers and forests in South Florida: an ecological perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 18.
• Brewer, C. A. and L. J. Gross. 2003. Training ecologists to think with uncertainty in mind. Ecology 84:1412-1414.
• Whither Mathematical Biology? Some Remarks upon becoming President of the Society for Mathematical Biology - August 2003 (Web version of article for Fall 2003 SMB Newsletter)
• Some comments on education from the SMB President (Web version of article for January 2004 SMB Newsletter)
• Janet H. Rock, Brian Beckage and Louis J. Gross. 2004. Population recovery following differential harvesting of Allium triococcum Ait. in the southern Appalachians. Biological Conservation 116: 227-234. and comments on the impacts of this work in changing harvesting regulations is in this issue of "A Walk in the Woods" from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• "Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology: the entry-level course" for MAA Notes volume on Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences (pdf document)
• "Fuller, M.M., L.J. Gross, S.M. Duke-Sylvester and M. Palmer. 2008. Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios. Ecological Applications 18(3):711-723" (pdf document)
• Appendix A: Management Background and description of model parameters (pdf document)
• "Travis, C. B., L. J. Gross, B. A. Johnson. 2009. Tracking the Gender Gap: A case study. Psychology of Women Quarterly 33:410-418" (pdf document)
• Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - April 28, 2007 (pdf document)
• Addendum to Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - June 28, 2007 (Word document)
• Report to the UTK Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based upon Gender using Data from Fall 2007 - April 7, 2008 (pdf document)
• "Biodiversity, Mathematics and Sustainability: Maintaining the Planet’s Biotic Resources" MAA Mathematics Awareness Month Essay for April 2013 (pdf document)
• "Dead from the Scaffolds" my essay remembrance of 1977 Grateful Dead Barton Hall concert at Cornell University, written April 2016 (pdf document) which was excepted in the book Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead by Peter Conners (Published by Cornell University Press) see also Cornell Alumni Magazine March/April 2017 article about the book and concert
• The Mathematics Underlying Gun Violence by Shelby Scott and Louis J. Gross. 2020. SIAM News Jan/Feb 2020
• Changing the Nature of Quantitative Biology Education: Data Science as a Driver by Raina S. Rbeva, John R. Jungck and Louis J. Gross. 2020. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (to appear) (Uncorrected Final draft