Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of Colorado Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is a 19-PI network with 8 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Environmental Science as the leading field (34% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), Ecology as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels), and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology as the leading topic (5% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are John Patrick Kociolek (7.9 weighted works; Diatoms and Algae Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies); Noah Fierer (7.4 weighted works; Fire effects on ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology). The strongest pairings are Jingchun Li and John Patrick Kociolek (4 shared works, weight 3.1). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 6, around Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, led by Noah Fierer, Danny Haelewaters, Laura E. Dee.