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New Mathematics for Pollinator Health

Website for the research collaboration on the mathematics of pollinator decline, originating from the 2026 American Institute of Mathematics workshop Addressing Declining Pollinator Populations Through New Mathematics.

Built with Quarto. Published at https://yunkang2021.github.io/pollinatormodeling.github.io/.

Local development

Install Quarto (https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/), then:

quarto preview      # live-reloading local preview
quarto render       # build the full site into docs/

Deployment

Pushing to main triggers .github/workflows/publish.yml, which renders the site and deploys it via GitHub Pages.

One-time setup in the repository settings: go to Settings → Pages and set Source to GitHub Actions. No gh-pages branch is needed.

Repository layout

_quarto.yml              site config: navigation, theme, formats
index.qmd                homepage (hero, stats, six priority areas)
research/
  index.qmd              priority research agenda
  foundations.qmd        established mathematical results
  working-groups.qmd     the eight workshop groups + cross-cutting themes
  open-problems.qmd      open questions for students and collaborators
roadmap.qmd              coordinated 12-month plan and deliverables
data.qmd                 datasets, software targets, external resources
publications.qmd         reference list
people.qmd               participants
news.qmd                 updates
contact.qmd              contact and acknowledgements
assets/
  theme.scss             colours, type scale, components
  styles.css             small refinements
  mark.svg, favicon.svg  navbar mark and favicon
references.bib           BibTeX bibliography

Editing guide

Add a news item. Open news.qmd and add a new ### Month Year — Headline section at the top, followed by a short paragraph.

Add a publication. Add the entry to references.bib, then add a matching bullet under the relevant heading in publications.qmd.

To switch publications.qmd to automatic BibTeX rendering instead of a manual list, replace the body with:

::: {#refs}
:::

<!-- cite everything so it appears in the list -->
::: {.hidden}
@perry2015rapid @kang2016disease @messan2017migration @messan2018vitellogenin
@thieme1993persistence @moore2025sterols @gekiere2024lethal @nunes2021soil
:::

Add a person. Add a row to the table in people.qmd.

Add a research page. Create research/your-page.qmd with a YAML header containing title:, then add it to both the navbar menu and the sidebar contents list in _quarto.yml.

Design notes

The three accent colours are not decorative. They encode the bistable structure at the centre of the science: green for the healthy equilibrium, red for the extinction equilibrium, amber for the threshold that separates them. The homepage hero is a schematic of three colony trajectories relative to that threshold. Keep the accents tied to that meaning rather than using them as generic brand colours.

Type: Fraunces (display), IBM Plex Sans (body), IBM Plex Mono (labels, data, eyebrows). All loaded from Google Fonts in _quarto.yml.

Content source

Page content is drawn from the workshop final report (AIM_Workshop_Report-Long-v3-GDH-7May2026.docx). Where the report gives figures or attributions, they have been carried over directly; the connective prose is written for a web audience.