The Great Basin’s saline lakes support millions of migrating birds. But more than half the region’s salty lakes have shrunk by 50% to 95% over the past 150 years.
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When you hear the word: ‘trillion,’ what do you think of? Maybe you think about the number of trees in the world or the grains of sand on a beach. Lotem Taylor’s mind goes straight to data sets and migration patterns.
Taylor has gone through more than a trillion data points during her nine-year conservation career. At Audubon, she leads spatial analyses for both the Migratory Bird Initiative (MBI) and Conservation Science teams. And as a Geographic Information System (GIS) and data analyst, her days are filled with developing automated processes to reformat, analyze, and visualize various datasets. In her time at Audubon, she has helped create climate suitability models and migration maps for hundreds of bird species.
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