Dr. Nicole Nova is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She received her PhD in Biology from Stanford University in 2022, advised by Prof. Erin Mordecai and Prof. Dmitri Petrov. She also earned an MS in Statistics from Stanford University in 2020. Nicole is generally interested in wildlife disease ecology, evolution, genomics, and conservation.
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Hopkins SR, Hazel A, Pourtois JD, Chamberlin AJ, Gajewski Z, Harryman I, Sokolow SH, MacDonald AJ, Nova N, Ahmad A, Andiani J, Emerson A, Febriani N, Finley NL, Izza Q, Miller A, Sartika I, Webb K, Burza S, Siregar IZ, Setiawan Y, Jones I, Yung-Chun Liu Z, De Leo GA. (2027). Pandemic impacts on protected rainforests and rural communities with variable health and livelihood support in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: a mixed-methods approach combining household surveys and remote sensing. The Lancet. Planetary health
Sonawane C, Leempoel K, Nova N, Meyer JM, Hébert T, Zuckerwise A, Dirzo R, Hadly EA. (2026). Mammal Community Responses to Increasing Puma Activity in a Suburban Preserve. Ecology and evolution, 16(6)
Holcomb KM, Mathis S, Staples JE, Fischer M, Barker CM, Beard CB, Nett RJ, Keyel AC, Marcantonio M, Childs ML, Gorris ME, Rochlin I, Hamins-Puértolas M, Ray EL, Uelmen JA, DeFelice N, Freedman AS, Hollingsworth BD, Das P, Osthus D, Humphreys JM, Nova N, Mordecai EA, Cohnstaedt LW, Kirk D, Kramer LD, Harris MJ, Kain MP, Reed EMX, Johansson MA. (2023). Evaluation of an open forecasting challenge to assess skill of West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease prediction. Parasites & vectors, 16(1)
Hopkins SR, Lafferty KD, Wood CL, Olson SH, Buck JC, De Leo GA, Fiorella KJ, Fornberg JL, Garchitorena A, Jones IJ, Kuris AM, Kwong LH, LeBoa C, Leon AE, Lund AJ, MacDonald AJ, Metz DCG, Nova N, Peel AJ, Remais JV, Stewart Merrill TE, Wilson M, Bonds MH, Dobson AP, Lopez Carr D, Howard ME, Mandle L, Sokolow SH. (2022). Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win-win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. The Lancet. Planetary health, 6(8)
Sokolow SH, Nova N, Jones IJ, Wood CL, Lafferty KD, Garchitorena A, Hopkins SR, Lund AJ, MacDonald AJ, LeBoa C, Peel AJ, Mordecai EA, Howard ME, Buck JC, Lopez-Carr D, Barry M, Bonds MH, De Leo GA. (2022). Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis. The Lancet. Planetary health, 6(11)
Nicole Nova, Renato Pagliara, Deborah M. Gordon. (2022). Individual Variation Does Not Regulate Foraging Response to Humidity in Harvester Ant Colonies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, (9)
Hopkins SR, Jones IJ, Buck JC, LeBoa C, Kwong LH, Jacobsen K, Rickards C, Lund AJ, Nova N, MacDonald AJ, Lambert-Peck M, De Leo GA, Sokolow SH. (2022). Environmental Persistence of the World's Most Burdensome Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. Frontiers in public health, (10)
Nova N, Athni TS, Childs ML, Mandle L, Mordecai EA. (2022). Global Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Annual Review of Resource Economics, (14)
Nova N. (2021). Cross-Species Transmission of Coronaviruses in Humans and Domestic Mammals, What Are the Ecological Mechanisms Driving Transmission, Spillover, and Disease Emergence?. Frontiers in public health, (9)
Athni TS, Shocket MS, Couper LI, Nova N, Caldwell IR, Caldwell JM, Childress JN, Childs ML, De Leo GA, Kirk DG, MacDonald AJ, Olivarius K, Pickel DG, Roberts SO, Winokur OC, Young HS, Cheng J, Grant EA, Kurzner PM, Kyaw S, Lin BJ, Lopez RC, Massihpour DS, Olsen EC, Roache M, Ruiz A, Schultz EA, Shafat M, Spencer RL, Bharti N, Mordecai EA. (2021). The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms. Ecology letters
Childs ML, Kain MP, Harris MJ, Kirk D, Couper L, Nova N, Delwel I, Ritchie J, Becker AD, Mordecai EA. (2021). The impact of long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic dynamics and control: the value and limitations of early models. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 288(1957)
Couper LI, Farner JE, Caldwell JM, Childs ML, Harris MJ, Kirk DG, Nova N, Shocket M, Skinner EB, Uricchio LH, Exposito-Alonso M, Mordecai EA. (2021). How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?. eLife, (10)
Glidden CK, Nova N, Kain MP, Lagerstrom KM, Skinner EB, Mandle L, Sokolow SH, Plowright RK, Dirzo R, De Leo GA, Mordecai EA. (2021). Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover. Current biology : CB, 31(19)
Allen WE, Altae-Tran H, Briggs J, Jin X, McGee G, Shi A, Raghavan R, Kamariza M, Nova N, Pereta A, Danford C, Kamel A, Gothe P, Milam E, Aurambault J, Primke T, Li W, Inkenbrandt J, Huynh T, Chen E, Lee C, Croatto M, Bentley H, Lu W, Murray R, Travassos M, Coull BA, Openshaw J, Greene CS, Shalem O, King G, Probasco R, Cheng DR, Silbermann B, Zhang F, Lin X. (2020). Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing. Nature human behaviour
Hopkins, S.R., Sokolow, S.H., Buck, J.C. et al.. (2020). How to identify win–win interventions that benefit human health and conservation. Nature Sustainability, (4)
Nova N, Deyle ER, Shocket MS, MacDonald AJ, Childs ML, Rypdal M, Sugihara G, Mordecai EA. (2020). Susceptible host availability modulates climate effects on dengue dynamics. Ecology letters
Childs ML, Kain MP, Kirk D, Harris M, Couper L, Nova N, Delwel I, Ritchie J, Mordecai EA. (2020). The impact of long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic dynamics and control. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Jeffrey R. Smith, J. Nicholas Hendershot, Nicole Nova, Gretchen C. Daily. (2020). The biogeography of ecoregions: Descriptive power across regions and taxa. Journal of Biogeography, 47(7)
Childs ML, Nova N, Colvin J, Mordecai EA. (2019). Mosquito and primate ecology predict human risk of yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 374(1782)
Sokolow SH, Nova N, Pepin KM, Peel AJ, Pulliam JRC, Manlove K, Cross PC, Becker DJ, Plowright RK, McCallum H, De Leo GA. (2019). Ecological interventions to prevent and manage zoonotic pathogen spillover. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 374(1782)
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