The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society, Number 115, Winter 2022/23

2], 62, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Endnotes. Maps. This issue includes the following articles: An Overview of the Baylor Oyster Survey: A Virginia Base Line; Through Eliza's Eyes: Envisioning the Underground Railroad; The Lucky Maiden: Gendered Constrictions in The Life of Harriet Stuart; Mappamundi, and Remembrance David Rodney (Rod) Lyon. Founded in 1979, The Washington Map Society is a United States based organization supporting map collecting, and the history, science and art of cartography. The Society (or WMS) has about 400 members drawn from throughout the United States with about 50 members. About 60% live outside the Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia radius, confirming the importance of our journal, The Portolan, and the WMS E-newsletter. WMS advances its goals by convening periodic speaker events, organizing field trips, publishing a cartographic journal (The Portolan) three times yearly, and by annually sponsoring the Ristow Prize competition recognizing research achievement in cartographic history. Phylodynamics, an increasingly popular statistical framework to infer pathogen transmission dynamics from genetic data, remains overlooked in animal health research. This restricts our ability to design more effective disease control strategies. Phylodynamics can be valuable when investigating the determinants of disease spread, allowing the better targeting of animal populations for disease control and reducing the impact of epidemics. The wildlifelivestockhuman interface is critical for disease emergence; thus, promoting phylodynamics at this interface should improve our ability to manage complex epidemics. There is a critical need to improve capacity-building efforts for infectious disease detection in hard-to-sample populations, such as wildlife.…