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M.S., Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland
Ph.D., Natural Resources, University of Arizona
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Amy Hudson’s expertise in climate ecology is applied to predicting arthropod-borne livestock disease spread, by identifying the role of the environment on virus-vector-host interactions. Arboviruses of interest span the globe and include bluetongue virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus, and vesicular stomatitis virus. Some of her recent work has included climate change impacts on dryland agroecosystems by leveraging long-term ecological research, and the influence of oceanic and atmospheric circulations on plant growth and insect dispersal across the continent.
Yao, Q., Ben Zheng, Keyan Fang, Hudson, A., Zhou, F., Chen, H., Tan, H., Guo, F., and Trouet, V. (2024). Modulations of NAO on the interplay between monsoon and westerlies in Asia on interdecadal timescales. Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07115-3.
Hudson, A.R., McGregor, B.L., Shults, P., England, M., Silbernagel, C., Mayo, C., Carpenter, M., Sherman, T.J., and Cohnstaedt, L.W. (2023). Culicoides-borne Orbivirus epidemiology in a changing climate. Journal of Medical Entomology. 60(6), 1221–1229 https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad098.
Hudson, A.R., Peters, D.P.C., Blair, J.M., Childers, D.L., Doran, P.T., Geil, K., Gooseff, M., Gross, K.L., Haddad, N.M., Pastore, M.A., Rudgers, J.A., Sala, O., Seabloom, E.W., and Shaver, G. (2022). Cross-site comparisons of dryland ecosystem response to climate change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. BioScience. 72(9), 889–907 https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab134.
Humphreys, J.M., Srygley, R.B., Lawton, D., Hudson, A.R., Branson, D.H. (2022) Grasshoppers Exhibit Asynchrony and Spatial Non-Stationarity in Response to the El Niño Southern and Pacific Decadal Oscillations. Ecological Modelling. 471, 110043 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110043.
Hudson, A.R., Smith, W.K., Moore, D.J.P., Trouet, V. (2022). Length of Growing Season is modulated by Northern Hemisphere jet stream variability. International Journal of Climate. 42(11), 5644–5660 https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7553.
Peters, D.P.C., Savoy, H.M., Stillman, S., Huang, H., Hudson, A.R., Sala, O.E., Vivoni, E.R. (2021). Plant Species Richness in Multiyear Wet and Dry Periods in the Chihuahuan Desert. Climate. 9(8), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9080130.
Xu, G., Wu, G., Liu, X., Chen, T., Wang, B., Hudson, A., Trouet, V. (2020). Age-related climate response of tree-ring d13C and d18O from Spruce in Northwestern China, with implications for relative humidity reconstructions. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 125, e2019JG005513. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005513.
Hudson, A.R., R. Alfaro-Sanchez, F. Babst, S. Belmecheri, D.J.P. Moore, and V. Trouet (2019). Seasonal and synoptic climatic drivers of tree growth in the Bighorn Mountains, WY, USA (1654-1983 CE). Dendrochronologia. 58, 125633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125633.
Xu, G., X. Liu, Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang, A. Hudson, and V. Trouet (2019). Century-scale temperature variability and onset of industrial-era warming in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. 53, 4569–4590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04807-z.
Albrecht, T., and A. Hudson (2019). Being persuasive: Lessons from lawyers that all scientists need. Eos. 100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO115327. Published on 04 February 2019.
Alfaro-Sánchez R., H. Nguyen, S. Klesse, A. Hudson, S. Belmecheri, N. Köse, H.F. Diaz HF, R. Villalba, V. Trouet (2018). Climatic and volcanic forcing of tropical belt northern boundary over the past 800 years. Nature Geoscience. 11, 933-938 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0242-1.
Smith, W. K., J. A. Biederman, R.L. Scott, D.J.P. Moore, M. He, J.S. Kimball, D. Yan, A. Hudson, M.L. Barnes, N. MacBean, A.M. Fox, M.E. Litvak (2018). Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America. Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 748–757. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075922.
Belmecheri, S., F. Babst, A.R. Hudson, J. Betancourt, V. Trouet (2017). Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Position Indices as Diagnostic Tools for Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics. Earth Interactions, 21(8), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-16-0023.1.
Hudson, A.R. and D.R. Tilley. (2014). Assessment of uncertainty in emergy evaluations using Monte Carlo simulations. Ecological Modelling. 271, 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.05.018.
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Vesicular stomatitis virus detected in biting midges and black flies during 2023 outbreak in southern California-(Peer Reviewed Journal) Scroggs, S.L., Swanson, D.A., Steele, T.D., Hudson, A.R., Reister-Hendricks, L.M., Gutierrez, J., Phillips, E.S., McGregor, B.L., Taylor, C.E., Davis, T.M., Lamberski, N., Phair, K.A., Howard, L.L., Mcconnell, N.E., Gurfield, N., Drolet, B.S., Pelzel-Mcclusky, A.M., Cohnstaedt, L.W. 2024. Vesicular stomatitis virus detected in biting midges and black flies during 2023 outbreak in southern California. Viruses. 16(9), 1428. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16091428.
Orbivirus epidemiology in a changing climate-(Review Article) Hudson, A.R., McGregor, B.L., Shults, P.T., England, M., Silbernegal, C., Mayo, C., Carpenter, M., Sherman, T., Cohnstaedt, L.W. 2023. Orbivirus epidemiology in a changing climate. Journal of Medical Entomology. 60(6):1221-1229. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad098.
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