Andrzej Affek
Visiting Associate Professor
437 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Website: http://www.igipz.pan.pl/member/show/andrzej_affek.html
Research interests: ecosystem services, landscape ecology, statistics, bumble bees
Education:
PhD Geography – Polish Academy of Sciences, 2014
MA Psychology – University of Warsaw, 2008
Research focus:
I explore the connections between people and their environment, focusing on landscape ecology, landscape changes, and ecosystem services. At the Crall Lab, I study how microclimatic and habitat differences affect wild pollinators and their pollination potential. Using the BumbleBox behavioral tracking system and computer vision tools, I investigate how factors like temperature, humidity, flash floods and specific nest location influence bumblebee activity, foraging, and colony growth.
Video from the field experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ietlOazNlGI&ab_channel=IGiPZPAN
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=cMZOBdgAAAAJ&hl=pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-8751-8288
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrzej-Affek