From August 2009 through July 2011 I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mathematical and Statististcal Sciences at University of Colorad Denver. During this time I was involved in a NIH (specifically the National Library of Medicine, Bioinformatics Group) funded project to develop methods for the Bayesian tracking of emerging epidemics as they move across the globe. We are adapting a family of Data Assimilation methods known as "Ensemble Kalman Filters" (EnKF) to extend these methods to spatial epidemiology.