Professional Preparation:
Graduate Institution:
2003-2005 M. Sc., Environmental Science, Washington State University
Advisor: Cheryl B. Schultz
Thesis title: Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation
Undergraduate Institution:
1998-2002 B.S., Environmental Science, University of Notre Dame
2002 Earth Semester Graduate, Columbia University Biosphere 2 Center, Oracle, AZ
Appointments:
2015-Present Ecological Data Specialist, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University
2005-2015 Research Program Manager, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame.
2003-2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
2002-2003 Research Technician, Department of Geology, Washington State University
Publications
Patterson, TA, Grundel, R, Dzurisin, JDK, Knutson, RL, Hellmann, JJ. Evidence of an extreme weather‐induced phenological mismatch and a local extirpation of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. Conservation Science and Practice. 2019;e147. Online
Dzurisin J.D.K, Pitts, D., Aguilar, A., Chawla N.V., Hellmann, J.J., Nabrzyski, J., Johnson, R.A., Blakely, B., Hällfors, M.H. SPACES (Spatial Portal for Analysis of Climatic Effects on Species). In prep.
Sheina B Sim, Meredith M Doellman, Glen R Hood, Wee L Yee, Thomas H Q Powell, Dietmar Schwarz, Robert B Goughnour, Scott P Egan, Gilbert St Jean, James J Smith, Tracy E Arcella, Jason D K Dzurisin, Jeffrey L Feder; Genetic Evidence for the Introduction of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) into the Northwestern United States, Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 110, Issue 6, 5 December 2017, Pages 2599–2608, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox248
Johnson, R, Dzurisin J.D.K, Chawla N.V. 2017. Large-scale Machine Learning for Species Distributions. Large-scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences. CRC Press.
Hällfors, M. H. J. Liao, J. D. K. Dzurisin, R. Gundel, M. Hyvärinenf, K. Towle, G. C. Wu, and J. J. Hellmann. 2016. Addressing potential local adaptation in species distribution models: implications for conservation under climate change. Ecological Applications 26: 1154-1169. Abstract
O’Neil, S.T., Dzurisin, J.D.K, Williams, C.M., Lobo, N.F., Higgins, J.K., Deines, J.M., Carmichael, R.D., Zeng, E., Tan, J.C., Wu, G.C., Emrich, S.J., Hellmann, J.J. Gene expression in closely-related species mirrors local adaptation: consequences for responses to a warming world. In press. Molecular Ecology. Abstract
Hellmann, J.J, Dzurisin, J.D.K, Wright, T., Cieslak, D., Pecoraro, S., Smith, K.E., Hayhoe, K, Griffis-Kyle, K.L. 2013. Mosquitoes of North America with emphasis in the midwestern United States: long-term occurrence patterns: Ecological Archives E094-126. Ecology 94 (6), 1433-1433 PDF
Williams, C. W., K. E. Marshall, H. A. MacMillan, J. D. K. Dzurisin, J. J. Hellmann, and B. J. Sinclair. 2012. Thermal variability increases the impact of autumnal warming and drives metabolic depression in an overwintering butterfly. PLoS One 7: e34470 Article
O’Neil, S. T., J. D. K. Dzurisin, R. Carmichael, N. F. Lobo, S. J. Emrich, and J. J. Hellmann. 2010. Population-level transcriptome sequencing of nonmodel organisms Erynnis propertius and Papilio zelicaon. BMC Genomics 11: 310. PDF
Pelini, S. L., J. D. K. Dzurisin, K. M. Prior, C. M. Williams, T. D. Marsico, B. J. Sinclair, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 11160-11165. Abstract
Schultz, C. B., J. Dzurisin and C. Russell. 2009. Captive rearing of Puget blue butterflies,Icaricia icarioides blackmorei, and implications for conservation. Journal of insect conservation 13 (3), 309-315 PDF
Prior, K. M., J. D. K. Dzurisin, S. L. Pelini, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Biology of larvae and adults of Erynnis propertius at the northern edge of its range. The Canadian Entomologist 141: 161-171. Abstract
Pelini, S., K. Prior, D. Parker, J. Dzurisin, R. Lindroth, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Climate change and temporal and spatial mismatches in insect communities. Pages 215-231 in Climate and Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
Hellmann, J. J., S. L. Pelini, K. M. Prior, and J. D. K. Dzurisin. 2008. The response of two butterfly species to climatic variation at the edge of their range and the implications for poleward range shifts. Oecologia 157: 583-592. Abstract
Dzurisin, J.D.K. 2005. Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation Programs. Masters Thesis. Washington State University.
Awards and Honors:
Robert Lane Fellowship in Environmental Sciences
Washington State University, 2004
Washington State University Mini-grant: Should captive breeding be an integral part of conservation strategies for endangered species? (2003)
College of Science Dean’s Honor List, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2001, Fall 2002
Research Experience:
Building and studying a virtual organization for adaptation to climate change: The Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change
Managed a diverse group of PIs, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduates in a multi-year, interdisciplinary project to create and study a virtual platform for collaboration on the topic of climate change adaptation (adapt.nd.edu).
Possible effects of global change on the Karner blue butterfly and its host plant, wild Lupine
Conducted a suite of experiments utilizing in-situ experiments, simulations of future climatic regimes within growth chamber facilities, environmental niche modeling, and range-wide genetics sampling and 454 sequencing. Acquired data were used to inform demographic models with the ultimate goal of determining the most influential factors in population persistence or decline.
Assessing temperature-related changes in introgression of hybridizing species across time and space
Conducted a comparative analysis across several geographic regions where two butterflies co-occur and interbreed. Specifically, we quantified how recent climate warming and thermal factors impacted the geographic and thermal distribution of species diagnostic traits related to Papilio glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) at the species’ northern edge and P. canadensis traits at the species’ southern edge.
MosquitoDB: Mosquitoes of the Great Lakes region and their potential responses to climate change
Constructed MosquitoDB, a database for observational data of mosquitoes built using the DarwinCore platform for biological observations. The initial focus of MosquitoDB is the Great Lakes region. To populate the database, we collated observational data from various mosquito abatement and disease control groups throughout the region.
Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change
Developed transcriptome-based microarray and performed a reciprocal translocation experiment of Propertius duskywing skipper (Erynnis propertius) and Anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) both in the field and a simulated translocation experiment in growth chambers to determine if populations differ in their response to warming at a genomic level.
The response of two butterfly species to climatic variation at the edge of their range and the implications for poleward range shifts
Tested phonotypic responses of peripheral populations of two contrasting butterflies, a small-bodied specialist (Erynnis propertius) and a large-bodied generalist (Papilio zelicaon), to warmer conditions in a fully crossed translocation experiment evaluating population densities, larval production, and growth rates.
Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation Programs
Reared Puget blue butterflies (Icaricia icarioides blackmorei), a subspecies closely related to the endangered Fender’s blue (I. i. fenderi) from two wild populations in Washington, USA to investigate two approaches for egg collection (collect eggs in the wild vs. collect eggs from adult females which were brought to a greenhouse for oviposition) and three diapause environments (in indoor facilities at two independent locations vs. outdoors in enclosures).
Graduate Institution:
2003-2005 M. Sc., Environmental Science, Washington State University
Advisor: Cheryl B. Schultz
Thesis title: Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation
Undergraduate Institution:
1998-2002 B.S., Environmental Science, University of Notre Dame
2002 Earth Semester Graduate, Columbia University Biosphere 2 Center, Oracle, AZ
Appointments:
2015-Present Ecological Data Specialist, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Colorado State University
2005-2015 Research Program Manager, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame.
2003-2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, Washington State University
2002-2003 Research Technician, Department of Geology, Washington State University
Publications
Patterson, TA, Grundel, R, Dzurisin, JDK, Knutson, RL, Hellmann, JJ. Evidence of an extreme weather‐induced phenological mismatch and a local extirpation of the endangered Karner blue butterfly. Conservation Science and Practice. 2019;e147. Online
Dzurisin J.D.K, Pitts, D., Aguilar, A., Chawla N.V., Hellmann, J.J., Nabrzyski, J., Johnson, R.A., Blakely, B., Hällfors, M.H. SPACES (Spatial Portal for Analysis of Climatic Effects on Species). In prep.
Sheina B Sim, Meredith M Doellman, Glen R Hood, Wee L Yee, Thomas H Q Powell, Dietmar Schwarz, Robert B Goughnour, Scott P Egan, Gilbert St Jean, James J Smith, Tracy E Arcella, Jason D K Dzurisin, Jeffrey L Feder; Genetic Evidence for the Introduction of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) into the Northwestern United States, Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 110, Issue 6, 5 December 2017, Pages 2599–2608, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox248
Johnson, R, Dzurisin J.D.K, Chawla N.V. 2017. Large-scale Machine Learning for Species Distributions. Large-scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences. CRC Press.
Hällfors, M. H. J. Liao, J. D. K. Dzurisin, R. Gundel, M. Hyvärinenf, K. Towle, G. C. Wu, and J. J. Hellmann. 2016. Addressing potential local adaptation in species distribution models: implications for conservation under climate change. Ecological Applications 26: 1154-1169. Abstract
O’Neil, S.T., Dzurisin, J.D.K, Williams, C.M., Lobo, N.F., Higgins, J.K., Deines, J.M., Carmichael, R.D., Zeng, E., Tan, J.C., Wu, G.C., Emrich, S.J., Hellmann, J.J. Gene expression in closely-related species mirrors local adaptation: consequences for responses to a warming world. In press. Molecular Ecology. Abstract
Hellmann, J.J, Dzurisin, J.D.K, Wright, T., Cieslak, D., Pecoraro, S., Smith, K.E., Hayhoe, K, Griffis-Kyle, K.L. 2013. Mosquitoes of North America with emphasis in the midwestern United States: long-term occurrence patterns: Ecological Archives E094-126. Ecology 94 (6), 1433-1433 PDF
Williams, C. W., K. E. Marshall, H. A. MacMillan, J. D. K. Dzurisin, J. J. Hellmann, and B. J. Sinclair. 2012. Thermal variability increases the impact of autumnal warming and drives metabolic depression in an overwintering butterfly. PLoS One 7: e34470 Article
O’Neil, S. T., J. D. K. Dzurisin, R. Carmichael, N. F. Lobo, S. J. Emrich, and J. J. Hellmann. 2010. Population-level transcriptome sequencing of nonmodel organisms Erynnis propertius and Papilio zelicaon. BMC Genomics 11: 310. PDF
Pelini, S. L., J. D. K. Dzurisin, K. M. Prior, C. M. Williams, T. D. Marsico, B. J. Sinclair, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 11160-11165. Abstract
Schultz, C. B., J. Dzurisin and C. Russell. 2009. Captive rearing of Puget blue butterflies,Icaricia icarioides blackmorei, and implications for conservation. Journal of insect conservation 13 (3), 309-315 PDF
Prior, K. M., J. D. K. Dzurisin, S. L. Pelini, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Biology of larvae and adults of Erynnis propertius at the northern edge of its range. The Canadian Entomologist 141: 161-171. Abstract
Pelini, S., K. Prior, D. Parker, J. Dzurisin, R. Lindroth, and J. J. Hellmann. 2009. Climate change and temporal and spatial mismatches in insect communities. Pages 215-231 in Climate and Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
Hellmann, J. J., S. L. Pelini, K. M. Prior, and J. D. K. Dzurisin. 2008. The response of two butterfly species to climatic variation at the edge of their range and the implications for poleward range shifts. Oecologia 157: 583-592. Abstract
Dzurisin, J.D.K. 2005. Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation Programs. Masters Thesis. Washington State University.
Awards and Honors:
Robert Lane Fellowship in Environmental Sciences
Washington State University, 2004
Washington State University Mini-grant: Should captive breeding be an integral part of conservation strategies for endangered species? (2003)
College of Science Dean’s Honor List, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2001, Fall 2002
Research Experience:
Building and studying a virtual organization for adaptation to climate change: The Collaboratory for Adaptation to Climate Change
Managed a diverse group of PIs, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduates in a multi-year, interdisciplinary project to create and study a virtual platform for collaboration on the topic of climate change adaptation (adapt.nd.edu).
Possible effects of global change on the Karner blue butterfly and its host plant, wild Lupine
Conducted a suite of experiments utilizing in-situ experiments, simulations of future climatic regimes within growth chamber facilities, environmental niche modeling, and range-wide genetics sampling and 454 sequencing. Acquired data were used to inform demographic models with the ultimate goal of determining the most influential factors in population persistence or decline.
Assessing temperature-related changes in introgression of hybridizing species across time and space
Conducted a comparative analysis across several geographic regions where two butterflies co-occur and interbreed. Specifically, we quantified how recent climate warming and thermal factors impacted the geographic and thermal distribution of species diagnostic traits related to Papilio glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) at the species’ northern edge and P. canadensis traits at the species’ southern edge.
MosquitoDB: Mosquitoes of the Great Lakes region and their potential responses to climate change
Constructed MosquitoDB, a database for observational data of mosquitoes built using the DarwinCore platform for biological observations. The initial focus of MosquitoDB is the Great Lakes region. To populate the database, we collated observational data from various mosquito abatement and disease control groups throughout the region.
Translocation experiments with butterflies reveal limits to enhancement of poleward populations under climate change
Developed transcriptome-based microarray and performed a reciprocal translocation experiment of Propertius duskywing skipper (Erynnis propertius) and Anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) both in the field and a simulated translocation experiment in growth chambers to determine if populations differ in their response to warming at a genomic level.
The response of two butterfly species to climatic variation at the edge of their range and the implications for poleward range shifts
Tested phonotypic responses of peripheral populations of two contrasting butterflies, a small-bodied specialist (Erynnis propertius) and a large-bodied generalist (Papilio zelicaon), to warmer conditions in a fully crossed translocation experiment evaluating population densities, larval production, and growth rates.
Captive Rearing and Endangered Butterfly Recovery: Captive Environments and Implications for Propagation Programs
Reared Puget blue butterflies (Icaricia icarioides blackmorei), a subspecies closely related to the endangered Fender’s blue (I. i. fenderi) from two wild populations in Washington, USA to investigate two approaches for egg collection (collect eggs in the wild vs. collect eggs from adult females which were brought to a greenhouse for oviposition) and three diapause environments (in indoor facilities at two independent locations vs. outdoors in enclosures).
