Kathleen Stewart (Center for Geospatial Information Science) (PI) with Shannon Takala Harrison (Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, UMB) (Co-PI) have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for "New spatially explicit approaches for estimating malaria parasite migration" that will involve estimating and mapping malaria parasite migration pathways for a region by accounting for the spatial patterns present in parasite genomic data as well as the spatial properties of landscape and built environments features relevant for gene flow, for example, features that serve to either impede or increase parasite migration. We will be focusing on malaria in Thailand and Cambodia for this research. The project starts this spring 2021 and runs for three years.