{"id":7,"date":"2025-07-22T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:51:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div  class=\"purdue-home-cta-banner purdue-home-rtb-hero purdue-home-rtb-hero--stack\">\n    <div class=\"image\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Banner with isotope graphic.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/isotope-banner-w1200.jpg\"\/>\n            <\/div>\n    <div class=\"section has-padding-top-large has-padding-bottom-large\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <div class=\"purdue-home-rtb-hero__content-wrap\">\n                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-hero__subheader tagged-header tagged-header--gold purdue-home-rtb-hero__subheader\">Professor Clement P. Bataille, Department of Forestry &amp; Natural Resources<\/p>\n                \n                                                        <h1 class=\"second-level-page-heading purdue-home-rtb-hero__header \">SAiVE Lab<\/h1>\n                \n                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-rtb-hero__subtext\">Spatio-temporal Analytics of Isotope Variations in the Environment<\/p>\n                \n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"purdue-home-rtb-hero__slider-wrap container\">\n                <div class=\"purdue-home-rtb-hero__stack-wrap\">\n                                                                        <div class=\"purdue-home-proofpoint--simple\">\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class=\"purdue-home-cta-banner purdue-home-teritary-hero \">\n        <div class=\"section has-dark-gray-background has-padding-top-large has-padding-bottom-large \">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <h1 class=\"second-level-page-heading purdue-home-teritary-hero__header\"><\/h1>\n            <div class=\"purdue-home-teritary-hero__content\">\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Welcome to SAiVE Lab!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Isotopes are the building blocks of life and are billions of years old  but secretly they trace your everyday life history.<br><br>At the SAiVE Lab, we decode this isotope treasure hunt and use isotope  chemistry to monitor and manage natural resources.<\/p>\n\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"purdue-home-tabs has-black-background\"><div class=\"section has-padding-top-large has-padding-bottom-large\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"columns\"><div class=\"column is-5\"><div class=\"arrow\"><\/div><h2 class=\"tagged-header tagged-header--gold\">about<\/h2><div class=\"purdue-home-tabs__headers\" role=\"tablist\"><button id=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-0\" class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-0\"><h3 class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header-text\">Who We Are<\/h3><\/button><button id=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-1\" class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-1\"><h3 class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header-text\">Our Mission<\/h3><\/button><button id=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-2\" class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header active\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-2\"><h3 class=\"purdue-home-tabs__header-text\">What We Do<\/h3><\/button><\/div><\/div><div class=\"column is-7\">\n<div class=\"purdue-home-tabs__panel\" id=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-0\" aria-labelledby=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-0\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/integrated-modeling-pathways.jpg\" alt=\"Insect migration and conservation research, integrated modeling pathways.\" class=\"wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/integrated-modeling-pathways.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/integrated-modeling-pathways-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SAiVE Lab \u2014 Spatio-temporal Analytics of isotope Variations in the Environment \u2014 is an interdisciplinary research group founded by Clement P. Bataille in 2017 at the University of Ottawa and since 2025 is based in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University, where Dr. Bataille holds the Belcher Chair of Environmental Sustainability. We bring together geochemistry, ecology, genomics, data science, and Earth observation to understand and manage how animals and materials move and change across space and time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"purdue-home-tabs__panel\" id=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-1\" aria-labelledby=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-1\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saive-identity.jpg\" alt=\"SAiVE Lab identity.\" class=\"wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saive-identity.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/saive-identity-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our planet is facing accelerating environmental change that threatens biodiversity, natural resources, and sustainable development. Isotopes are ubiquitous markers of origin and process, and over the past decades the scientific community has generated millions of isotopic measurements from soils, water, plants, animals, and rocks worldwide. The SAiVE Lab works to unlock the potential of this data \u2014 through open, reproducible, FAIR-principled science \u2014 to build predictive tools that trace the movement and origin of life. Our vision is to harness isotope science as a tracer of life&#8217;s movements to pioneer and deploy solutions for sustainable natural resources management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"purdue-home-tabs__panel active\" id=\"panel-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-2\" aria-labelledby=\"header-e087afee-aa15-46d7-b6f4-6fbd721e03c3-2\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/isotope-data-science-graph-w600.jpg\" alt=\"Graph showing deploying isotope soluctions for environmental sustainability. Circle with arrows to blocks has title of Isotope and data sciende. Aquatic ecosystems block has fisheries management, marine conservation, watershed sustainability. Forestry block has Forest Pest Management, forest carbon, and wood forensics. Terrestrial wildlife block has animal conservation, insect migration and meagfauna and paleoecology. \" class=\"wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/isotope-data-science-graph-w600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/isotope-data-science-graph-w600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research spans an unusually broad range of systems, all unified by isotope geolocation and isotope data science. We forecast the migrations of invasive and native insects that threaten crops and forests to anticipate and manage their consequences, we reconstruct the journeys of ancient megafauna to understand the drivers of their extinction, we trace the origin of timber and food for supporting a sustainable bioeconomy, we follow aquatic animals between rivers, lakes and oceans to predict their population dynamics for fisheries and conservation, and we investigate the evolution of Arctic river weathering processes in a warming climate. All of those research directions are connected by the same core toolkit \u2014 multi-isotope measurement, spatial statistics, and predictive modeling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div  class=\"section  page-layout-wide page-layout-two-column page-layout-two-column-divider\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"tagged-header-container tagged-header-container--content-block tagged-header-container-gold\">\n            <h2 class=\"tagged-header tagged-header--gold\">A Note from Clement<\/h2>\n        <\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns page-layout-columns columns is-multiline is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column column is-full-tablet page-layout-main is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bataille-clement-forest-w500.jpg\" alt=\"Clement Bataille with forest background.\" class=\"wp-image-324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bataille-clement-forest-w500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bataille-clement-forest-w500-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column column is-one-quarter-desktop is-full-tablet is-full-mobile page-layout-sidebar is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up in a small village of southern France, near the wine region of Bordeaux, I was drawn from an early age to the idea of terroir \u2014 the notion that a place, with its unique geology, soils, and climate, leaves a distinctive imprint on what grows there. That childhood intuition taught me to see the natural world as a system of interconnected spheres. It was only when I discovered isotope science, together with advances in geospatial and data science, that I understood how deeply and broadly those interconnections could be investigated. The SAiVE Lab is built on that idea: that the chemistry of a place is written into the living things that pass through it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}