Many animals have been shown to use magnetic inclination (the angle between the magnetic field and the surface of the earth) to migrant North-South. However, it has yet to be seen if this method is sufficient to allow an animal to perform a cross-continental migration, or if it would tolerate a magnetic field reversal. To answer these questions, I collaborated with Dr. Brian Taylor at the University of North Carolina to create a series of Agent Based Models to demonstrate the feasibility of such a sensory system for transequitorial migrations, despite field fluctuations, or even a full field reversal.

This work was published with the Journal of the Royal Society of Interface