About the Authors
Circuitscape was written by Brad McRae and Viral Shah. Brad is an Ecologist with the The Nature Conservancy in Seattle. He works on habitat connectivity conservation, climate change, and landscape genetics. Viral is a Senior Scientist with Interactive Supercomputing and a Visiting Scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He develops systems for scientific computing for work and for fun.
Acknowledgements
We are especially grateful to the Wilburforce Foundation and the Cougar Fund for funding this work. We also wish to thank the Washington Program of The Nature Conservancy and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for supporting Brad McRae and Interactive Supercomputing and the University of California, Santa Barbara for supporting Viral Shah while they collaborated on the project.