Macrosystems Biodiversity team members Quentin Read, Arya Yue, Isadora Fluck, Benjamin Baiser, John M. Grady, Phoebe L. Zarnetske and Sydne Record have written a new R package 'Ostats', with version 0.1.0 now available via github.
Phoebe Zarnetske gave a seminar to the [Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies](https://www.caryinstitute.org/) titled 'Explaining Patterns of Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales with Traits, Geodiversity, and Disturbance.'