Justin Heavilin Ph.D.

Mathematics and Statistics

Senior Lecturer


Justin Heavilin

Contact Information

Office Location: Animal Science (ANSC) 211A
Phone: (435) 797-2434
Email: justin.heavilin@usu.edu

Educational Background

PhD, Applied Mathematics, Utah State University, 2007
The Red Top Model: A Landscape Scale Integro-dierence Equation Model of the Mountain Pine Beetle - Lodgepole Pine Forest Interaction
MS, Mathematical Modelling, Humboldt State University, 1996
A Model of Intraspecic Competition for a Dynamically Modelled Resource
BA, Mathematics, Humboldt State University, 1994

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Heavilin, J.E, Powell, J., Logan, J., (2007). Dynamics of mountain pine beetle outbreaks: Plant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and Response. Academic Press

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Norton, J.M, Heavilin, J.E, Forero, L., Grezer, J., (2017). Live long and prosper: plant-soil feedback, lifespan and landscape abundance covary. Ecology, 98:12, 3063-3073. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2011
  • Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Grezer, J., Forero, L., Heavilin, J.E, (2016). Using plant-soil feedbacks to predict plant biomass in diverse communities. Ecology, 97:8, 2064-2073. doi: 10.1890/15-2037.1
  • Schmadel, N.M, Neilson, B.T, Heavilin, J.E, Worman, A., (2016). Isolating parameter sensitivity in reach scale transient storage modeling. Advances in Water Resources, 89, 24-31. doi: doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.12.020
  • Schmadel, N.M, Neilson, B.T, Heavilin, J.E, (2015). Spatial considerations of stream hydraulics in reach scale temperature modeling. Water Resources Research, 51, 5566-5581. doi: doi:10.1002/2015WR016931
  • Doucette, W.J, Mendenhall, S., McNeill, L.S, Heavilin, J.E, (2014). The sky is falling II: Impact of deposition produced during the static testing of solid rocket motors on corn and alfalfa. Science of the Total Environment, 482-483:June, 36-41. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.02.089
  • Heavilin, J.E, Neilson, B.T, (2012). An analytical solution to main channel heat transport with surface heat flux. Advances in Water Resources, 47, 67-75. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.06.006
  • Worman, A., Riml, J., Schmadel, N.M, Neilson, B.T, Bottacin-Busolin, A., Heavilin, J.E, (2012). Spectral scaling of heat fluxes in streambed sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 39:L23402, doi: doi:10.1029/2012GL053922
  • Heavilin, J.E, Neilson, B.T, (2012). Approximation of inverse Laplace transform solution to heat transport in a stream system. Water Resources Research, 48:9, doi: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012WR012329
  • Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Heavilin, J.E, (2012). Plant-soil feedbacks provide an alternative explanation for diversity-productivity relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279:1740, 3020–3026. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0285
  • Kulmatiski, A., Heavilin, J.E, Beard, K.H, (2011). Testing predictions of a three-species plant-soil feedback model. Journal of Ecology, 99:2, 542-550. doi: doi:10.1111/j.1365- 2745.2010.01784.x
  • Heavilin, J.E, Powell, J., (2008). A novel method of fitting spatio-temporal models to data, with applications to the dynamics of mountain pine beetles. Natural Resource Modeling, 21:3

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

MATH 1210 - Calculus I (QL), Fall 2025
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (QI), Fall 2025
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Fall 2025
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (QI), Spring 2025
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Spring 2025
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (QI), Fall 2024
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus (QI), Fall 2024
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2024
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2024
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2023
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2023
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2023
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2023
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2022
Mentoring, Fall 2022
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2022
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2022
Mentoring, Spring 2022
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Spring 2022
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2021
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2021
MATH 3310 - Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2021
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2021
MATH 3310 - Discrete Mathematics, Fall 2020
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2020
MATH 3310 - Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2020
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2020
MATH 3310 - Discrete Mathematics, Fall 2019
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2019
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2019
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Fall 2018
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Fall 2018
MATH 2210 - Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2018
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Spring 2018
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2018
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Spring 2017
MATH 2270 - Linear Algebra, Spring 2017
MATH 2280 - Ordinary Differential Equations, Spring 2017
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Fall 2016
MATH 2270 - Linear Algebra, Fall 2016
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Spring 2016
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Fall 2015
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Fall 2015
MATH 1220 - Calculus II, Spring 2015
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Spring 2015
MATH 1210 - Calculus I, Fall 2014
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Fall 2014
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Spring 2014
MATH 2250 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Spring 2014
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Fall 2013
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Spring 2013
MATH 1050 - College Algebra, Spring 2013
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Fall 2012
MATH 1100 - Calculus Techniques, Fall 2012