Graduate Students

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Broadly, my research interests lie in landscape ecology, conservation planning, and questions relating to species persistence in the context of climate and land-use change. Of particular interest is corridor ecology and examining the roles climate and…[read more]

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Sustainable Consumption and Environmentalism in India

Modern consumption patterns are among the primary drivers of environmental problems like climate change. Globalization and economic liberalization are enabling individuals in emerging economies like India and China to access…[read more]

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Population Genetics, Biological Control, Hybridization, Plant Insect Interactions

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microbial ecology, microbial ecosystem services, green chemistry, science and society, access to research

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My primary professional interest and goal is to facilitate the use of science in the creation of public policy. I am interested in bridging disciplines and creating avenues that allow knowledge generated by scientific pursuits…[read more]

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Soil remediation, habitat restoration, biomimicry, biodiversity, ethnobotany, oil spill response, dissemination of innovation, cognitive development, organic agriculture and industrial ecology

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Oil Remediation and Restoration

I design systems which remediate and transform polluted soil, such as crude oil impacted soils. These systems rely on the ability of microbes and their constituents, both naturally occurring and induced, to…[read more]

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My research aims to examine how different protected area governance strategies influence conflict arising at the interface of extractive industry and biodiversity conservation. Madagascar, an island globally renowned for its biodiversity, species endemism, and high…[read more]

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Freshwater ecology, biological indicators, land use and climate change, dragonfly distribution

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Systematics/Natural HIstory/Entomology/Evolutionary Biology

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My life now isn’t that much different than it was when I was 8 years old. I wander outside with a net chasing insects and putting them in jars. Except now I do it in…[read more]

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Science studies, environmental politics, public policy

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I examine how ideas and expertise shape political processes in emerging democracies.

My dissertation, Contesting Democracy, Buying Experts: Environmental Conflicts and Assessments in Chile, examines how scientific and technical rationality are used in collective decision-making. Chile…[read more]

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Science and Technology Studies (STS), Political Ecology, Public Policy || Agriculture and food systems, Diversified farming systems, Food justice, Politics of technological change and development, Collective knowledge production, Science and democracy, Sustainability, efficiency, and other normative frameworks for socio-environmental governance

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My primary research examines the intersection of sustainable agriculture and food safety, specifically taking a hard look at legislation, regulation, and industry response to concerns over infectious pathogens in fresh produce and how that articulates…[read more]

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Hekia is interested in the power dynamics between nation-states and indigenous peoples, specifically the way in which hegemonic powers are influenced by indigenous resistance movements today. She employs social theory to explore the impact of…[read more]

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Biological Control of Insects

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Forest ecology and management, carbon allocation and sequestration, clonal regeneration

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Habitat Restoration, Disturbed Ecosystems, Tidal Marsh Upland Ecotones

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Currently, my research interests include global scale geographic data analysis, focus on spherical spatial analysis, and application of remote sensing data in ecosystem models. During my graduate study in UC Berkeley, I developed a spatial…[read more]

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My research interests include the ecological and historical roles of fire in the western United States, and addressing relevant management questions. Current research includes shaded fuel break vegetation regrowth according to treatment type and site factors.

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Trees are fundamental to tropical rain forests and very often ecological related questions require knowledge of plant species identity. And since many forest trees flower infrequently, identifying plants from only leaf specimens is quite common….[read more]

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I study the ecological immunology of infectious diseases in wildlife to understand seasonal changes in host susceptibility, the immunological effects of co-infections, and immunological trade-offs. For my dissertation work, I have been examining the ecological…[read more]

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Prescribed fire as a management technique for threshold reversal in medusahead

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Global Environmental Health; drinking water; WASH; metrics & evaluation; rural poverty; Asia/China

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My research is situated in the field of Global Environmental Health with a focus on water and sanitation. Specifically, I am interested in water quality and drinking water treatment in poor rural areas of “developing” countries….[read more]

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Climate Change Adaptation and Inequality

I have been studying or working on issues related to climate change and justice since 2001. My current research focuses on how climate change adaptation policy turns into realities on the…[read more]

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• Policy frameworks for adapting to climate change in water management
• Equity and role of science in natural resource policy
• Flood management in the California Delta
• Managing climate risks for sustainable development in South and SE Asia

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The intersection of Race, Media and the Urban Environment

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plant stress, forest community ecology, silviculture, urban-rural interfaces, cultural landscapes, and environmental history

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Phylogenetics, Population genetics, Drosophila

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My research interests broadly encompass the systematics, behavior and biogeography of carabid beetles. I am particularly interested in the snail-eating beetles belonging to the genus Scaphinotus. Using contemporary methods in morphological and molecular systematics I…[read more]

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Influence of Microbial Bodies on Soil Humification Processes

I am interested in the ways in which microbial bodies are broken down and metabolized by other microbes and transformed into soil organic matter. My research uses 13C…[read more]

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Natural resource governance with indigenous peoples in Pacific Northwest salmon watersheds

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I am studying co-management (collaborative or cooperative management) of natural resources with indigenous peoples.  This course of study builds off of eight years of previous NGO work on issues of community participation in natural resource…[read more]

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Rice farming in Southeast Asia, GM rice, Golden Rice, cultural and ecological impacts of the Green Revolution

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Indirect Interactions, Parasitoid Food Webs and Dispersal in Disturbed Landscapes, Host Selection

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Parasitoid wasps can significantly affect the population growth and dynamics of host species. Researches have focused on numerous “just-so” ecology-based systems involving specialized parasitoids and their hosts.  However, parasitoids can also be relative generalists, and…[read more]

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Evolution of social behaviours and colony function

I am interested in the evolution of complex social behaviours in ants, particularly in ant-ant associations. My research focuses on chemical, genetic and behavioural aspects of ant nesting interactions,…[read more]

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Isotope geochemistry, the impact of life on surface processes, astrobiology

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Broadly, I am interested in the intersection of natural resource use and human health. My research will explore how ecosystem changes and interactions between wildlife and people impact human health.

My study site is located in…[read more]

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My research is focused on developing tools and techniques to better understand complex systems and models and to obtain more accurate conclusions about them. I develop software both for custom models and to empower others…[read more]

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I am interested in three main academic areas: interaction between organisms and ecosystem processes; connectivity among ecosystems; and impacts of land use. More specifically I am interested in how these topics play out in the…[read more]

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Gender and Participatory Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Race and Environmental Policy

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I investigate the conflation of gendered perspectives into homogenous frameworks in which women’s engagement in natural resource management is obscured. My research focuses on Gullah Geechee fisherwomen in South Carolina’s Sea Islands. I critique fisheries…[read more]

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quantitative ecology, wildlife ecology, biodiversity, bird song

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I manage a long-term, large-scale, biodiversity monitoring project for the California Department of Fish and Game (birds, mammals, plants) .

My current research includes:

1. Species- and community-level modeling of biodiversity monitoring data in order to provide trend information…[read more]
   

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Fungal ecology

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I am interested in the interactions between aboveground and belowground terrestrial communities, in particular the effects of mycorrhizal symbioses on plant community composition and function. I am also interested in understanding broad patterns of fungal…[read more]

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Microbial diversity and ecology of extreme environments

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Conservation biology, mammalian carnivore ecology, mathematical modeling, human-wildlife interface, animal behavior.

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Landscape-scale ecology with an emphasis on how anthropogenic-based habitat disturbance influences mammalian carnivores.

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My research interests are in the intersection of environmental ethics, animal studies, and STS. Specifically, I am looking at the human-animal and human-nature dichotomies and how they bear on ethical theory and societal norms. One…[read more]

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Systematics; Coleoptera; Behavior; Microscopy

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I am generally interested in Coleopteran systematics, behavior, biogeography, and ecology.  I am especially intersted in unique behaviors or morphological characters and their effects on the diversification of beetle groups.  I also enjoy scientific illustration…[read more]

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Conservation, restoration, community ecology, and environmental management.

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My research is focused on understanding how an endangered keystone species, the Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens), interacts with the plant community in California’s largest remnant grassland at Carrizo Plain National Monument. Specifically, I’m interested…[read more]

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My research interests are focused on the effects of population connectivity, via the dispersal of individuals, on population dynamics of threatened and endangered wildlife. I use a combination of direct and indirect techniques to measure…[read more]

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plant community ecology, restoration ecology

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I am an ecologist interested in how temporal variability shapes plant communities. I care about this in relation to species conservation, and am studying whether precipitation variability drives transient invasion patterns in serpentine prairies….[read more]

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Riparian forest ecology, physical-biological interactions in river systems (e.g., effects of altered disturbance regimes on vegetation dynamics), persistence strategies of pioneer trees, floodplain restoration and water resources management.

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Spider and Grassland Ecology

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My research interests include Parasitology, Marine Biology, Ecology and Biological Control. At UC Berkeley I utilized my first summer studying the consumption rates on the invasive lettuce aphid, Nasonovia ribisnigri, by four syrphid larvae commonly found in Hollister, Ca. Currently I am researching the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM), an invasive moth from Australia in California. My 2nd and 3rd summer, I studied the tritrophic interactions among the host plants, LBAM, and LBAM's parasitoid wasps. Currently I am investigating competition and behavior of an Australian parasitoid, Goniozus jacintae on its host (LBAM); in addition to physiological consequences of parasitism and superparasitism.

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Community diversity, plant population dynamics, alpine tundra

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Remote Sensing, GIS, Hydrological Modeling

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Fish Ecology, Conservation, Inland Waters, Water Quality, Aquatic Invertebrates, Biochronology, Hatcheries

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I am broadly interested in the ecology and conservation of inland waters. My master’s research focused on investigating the relationship between environmental temperatures and juvenile steelhead trout growth patterns, estimated by otolith microanalysis, at the…[read more]

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Matthew does work primarily with the phylogeography of forest trees of California, particularly red fir and tanoak.

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Aquatic ecology, pesticide ecotoxicology, sustainable agriculture

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Pyrethroid insecticides are rapidly replacing organophosphate pesticides in many countries, due to their lower toxicity to humans and other organisms. However, recent studies indicate that pyrethroids tend to persist longer in sediments, and that concentrations…[read more]

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Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol, Instrumentation

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I work to develop and improve in-situ instrumentation to better study the sources and formation pathways of atmospheric particulate matter. By collecting and analyzing the specific organic compounds in particulate matter, we are able to…[read more]

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Carbon sequestration dynamics in forested ecosystems

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biogeochemistry / environmental chemistry, reactive transport modeling, soil / sediment & water, selenium, environmental policy & management

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I am interested in conservation strategies and transitioning land uses in Southeast Asia’s agricultural landscapes.  What effects do different conservation strategies have at the field, farm and landscape levels?  What are the mechanisms of transition…[read more]

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My dissertation, entitled “The Crumbling Fortress: Nature and Security in Waza National Park,” looks at how a convergence of institutional failures, shifting regional and ethnic politics, economic crisis and mercurial NGO interests have led to…[read more]

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GIS, spatial analysis, environmental justice, public health, health disparities

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I use geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis to evaluate the availability and accessibility of resources that influence health behaviors and outcomes, such as food, recreational resources, and public transportation. I’m also interested in…[read more]

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Plant ecology, plant ecophysiology, plant water relations

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My overarching area of interest is plant water relations.  Specifically, I’m investigating how coastal fog might facilitate the establishment of Baccharis pilularis (commonly called coyote brush) in rare coastal prairie habitat in central coastal California. To…[read more]

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Food systems, farm to hospital, commodity networks, alternative agrifood movements, ecological nutrition, corporeality

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My interests lie at the nexus of public health and alternative agrifood movements.  I’m conducting participatory action research within the farm to hospital movement, exploring how an ecological nutrition approach to food and health is…[read more]

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Urban Wildlife

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Urban/wild black bears in Lake Tahoe region, focusing urban/wild characteristics, Aversive Conditioning and ecological parameters.

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Global Metropolitan Studies, Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies

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My research focuses on international environmental governance of electronic waste recycling. My work crosses both environmental and social sciences through a political ecology and science studies approach. I am interested in questions around…[read more]

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Population Genetics of Phytophthora ramorum (causal agent of Sudden Oak Death)

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Fire, GIS, and LiDAR

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Investigating the uses of LiDAR for wildfire models.  Specifically, utilizing LiDAR to derive fuel characteristics for the physics-based fire model, FIRETEC

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Evolutionary biology and ecology of reptiles and amphibians. Convergent evolution.

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Historical population genetics and invasions

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I am interested in understanding the interactions between native and exotic species and how these dynamics may affect ecosystem functioning and inform successful restoration practices. My dissertation research in California grasslands has explored several processes…[read more]

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Information and Environmental Governance in Collaborative Management of Public Resources

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China: Environment and Information

China is the fastest growing country, the most rapidly changing country, and has the most far-reaching ripples in the world. How can China sustain its economic growth as well as its environment?…[read more]

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Self-perpetuating systems

I am in John Harte‘s lab. I am investigating a hypothesized feedback system in which biology and geomorphology reinforce each other in the mound-pool microtopography of many California grasslands. In previous work I…[read more]

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Land Use Change, Biofuels

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Remote Sensing, GIS, LULC, biodiversity, infectious disease

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Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology

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Tropical deforestation for oil palm plantations

Tropical forests now cover less than 5% of the world’s surface but are home to the majority of earth’s terrestrial species. Southeast Asia is a biodiversity hotspot, but its tropical forests…[read more]

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Conservation, development and land use in southern Africa

My research examines patterns of conservation, rural development, and land use in southern Africa, primarily Zambia. I compare and contrast the types of information gathered from different methods…[read more]

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Economic and Environmental Impacts of Wildlife Management in Rangelands

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I study how policy that regulates hunting and management for hunting impacts  environmental and economic factors on privately owned rangelands.  I’m evaluating these impacts in oak savannas in Spain, Texas, and California, three places with unique policy…[read more]

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Plant-insect and multi-trophic interactions, smoke ecology, sunflower moth population genetics

Insect community ecology: Predator-herbivore-plant interactions, and potential effects of smoke from wildfire on these interactions.

Insect population genetics and genomics: Population genetics of sunflower moth Homoeosoma electellum…[read more]

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Hawaiian aquatic ecosystem resilience

I am interested in nearshore coastal ecosystem resilience in the face of multiple anthropogenic stressors including climate change, sea level rise, nutrient loading, and invasive species. Specifically, I am working in two…[read more]

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At the broadest level, I am interested in how state-society relations influence the development of more “sustainable” industries. I examine the overlapping efforts of public institutions, the private sector and civil society to shape new…[read more]

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Floodplain Restoration

Rivers provide a variety of ecological services necessary to sustain human communities, and floodplains are integral parts of river ecosystems and critical to many of these services. Over the last century, however, humans have…[read more]

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Behavior and chemical ecology of social insects; cue use in multitrophic interactions; phorid flies; ant associated beetles

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My main interests relate to the biogeochemical controls on greenhouse gas fluxes from soil and the methods used to extrapolate in situ flux measurements across larger scales.

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Agroecology; Diversified Farming Systems; Multi-functional Agriculture; Political Economy of Agricultural Development

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My research explores the tradeoffs and synergies between biodiversity and agricultural production. I am interested in multi-disciplinary and applied approaches for studying the influence of biodiversity in and around farming systems on the provisioning of…[read more]

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Social movements, civil society, hegemony, articulation, justice, nature, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

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Conservation biology, Agroecology, Wildlife ecology, Landscape ecology, Climate change.

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Biodiversity conservation in agroecosystems, specifically in vineyards.

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Chemical Ecology

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Forestry

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My research is on the spatial clonal patterns of coast redwood.  By incorporating genetic data into forest structure indices, I hope to provide a framework that incorporates genotype data in a way that is meaningful…[read more]

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microbial ecology, carbon cycling and stabilization in soils, and the impacts of climate change

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Groundwater Geochemistry of Arsenic

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I am interested in the abiotic groundwater geochemistry of arsenic in altered local aquifer environments. Aquifers are comprised of saturated geologic units whose chemical mineralogy represents complex assemblages of dominant and trace solid phases. In…[read more]

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GIS, Forest Health

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Geochemical processes occurring at Earth's surface, Application of isotopic techniques to geochemical problems

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Women's Transborder Activism on Environmental Justice in the San Diego-Tijuana region

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Mima mound-vernal pool ecosystems; bioturbation; geomorphology; GIS

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Broadly, my research explores the interactions and feedbacks between life and landscape. I am using a combination of remote sensing (LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)), spatial pattern analysis, geomorphic modeling, and biologic monitoring to explore…[read more]

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Soil biogeochemistry

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I study the environmental and biogeochemical controls that drive the kinetics of iron and sulfate reduction in littoral aquatic wetland sediments. This research will elucidate the fate, transport, and transformative processes that factor into Fe…[read more]

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Technological Change, Industrial History, Chemicals, Energy, Food, Environmental Health, Policy Studies

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Two projects currently underway:

   Innovation and Industrial Change

This work looks at the opportunities and challenges in moving from today’s systems of industrial production towards systems with less negative impact on the environment and society. My…[read more]

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Behavioral Ecology, Evolution, Sexual Selection, Jumping Spiders

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I’m broadly interested in how selective pressures influence diversification, particularly in the evolution of sexually selected traits and behaviors. My primary research focuses on acoustic, visual, and multi-modal communication channels in jumping spider courtship behavior.

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Resilience of Rainfed Agroecosystems to Climatic Variability (Mexico)

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Diversified farming systems and indigenous land management in Latin America. Current research focuses on farmer-led adaptation strategies to climatic variability in the semi-arid, tropical highlands of Southern Mexico. Collaborative research with a the Centro de…[read more]

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Urban tree mortality

Why do trees die in cities? Understanding the urban tree mortality process is critical to planning for cycles of tree removal and replacement, modeling tree population changes over time, and accurately predicting ecosystem…[read more]

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Applications of Technology to Ecological Study

Broadly, I am interested in the fusion of our ever-evolving technological capabilities with conservation and resource planning objectives. Remote sensing technology provides new types and scales of data collection while…[read more]

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Macroecology, ecological theory, evolution on islands

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My research focuses on understanding the limits and successes of statistical theories of biodiversity, such as the maximum entropy theory of ecology or the unified neutral theory of biodiversity. My ultimate goal is to use…[read more]

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Climate Change Impacts on Carbon Storage in Annual Grassland, Nitrogen Deposition Effects on CA Soils

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Broadly, my research explores global change ecology questions and employs field manipulations, laboratory studies, ecological modeling, and stable isotope and radiocarbon ecological research methods. I am specifically interested biogeochemical mechanisms driving changes in ecosystem carbon…[read more]

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Engineering Studies, Environmental Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sustainability Engineering, Green Engineering, Solar and Wind Energy Systems, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Engineering-specific metrics of sustainability, Philosophy of Engineering, Engineering Education for Sustainable Development.

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Dissertation Project Summary:

Much of the world’s socio-cultural, environmental, health and industrial prosperity depends on the design and governance of engineering projects, in particular energy infrastructure (Nader, 1980; UNIDO, 2010). In recent years, technological expertise,…[read more]

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Restoration Ecology, Pollination Ecology, Native Bee Conservation, Agrobiodiversity

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Native bees provide the essential ecosystem service of pollination in both agricultural and natural areas. However, native bee populations are increasingly threatened due to agricultural intensification, habitat fragmentation and habitat loss. Ecological restoration has been…[read more]

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I am interested in the ways in which science is used to inform the management of water resources.  My work has focused on the Klamath Basin of Northern California and Southern Oregon, and has examined…[read more]

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Wetland Ecology, Climate Change Modeling

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My research focuses on the monitoring and restoration of tidal wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary. Combining field experiments and remote sensing, I’m examining how predicted sea-level rise might affect tidal wetland plant species…[read more]

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I am currently studying life history variation in arthropod communities with a combination of field work, population models, and statistical model-fitting methods.

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Marine Fisheries, Food Security, Development, Conflict Studies, Africa

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Since the 1980’s, marine fisheries have experienced a dramatic decline in global catches, despite overwhelming increases in technology and capitalization. Furthermore, by 2025, the number of people living within 60 miles of coastlines is projected…[read more]

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Barcoding for applications in biomonitoring

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Freshwater ecosystems are rapidly being altered due to shifting patterns of land use, urbanization, water diversions, water storage, water transportation, runoff, waste, fishing, invasive species, and climate change. As we continue to put more pressure…[read more]

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Political ecology, science studies, global environmental politics, ecosystem services, conservation

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Currently, my research explores what it means to assign monetary values to nature, and examines the implications for environmental policy, environmental sciences, and environmentalism. I use mixed ethnographic methods to pursue this idea in its…[read more]

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I am broadly interested in applying interdisciplinary landscape-level approach for biodiversity conservation. More specifically, I use geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing for monitoring and conservation of rangelands in California and Southern Africa. For my…[read more]

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Restoration Ecology

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I am interested the relationship between ecological baselines and restoration goals/ success criteria in arid/semiarid riparian systems. My current work focuses on the construction of “observed/expected” (O/E) models to predict species richness and evenness for…[read more]

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I am interested in the biogeography of dune endemic insects in desert regions of North America. I hope to use comparative phylogeographic methods to understand the relationships of these areas. My focal taxa include the…[read more]

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Dendroecology, competition, forest biomass, tree demography, forest community ecology, tree neighborhood dynamics

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I am a PhD student in the Beissinger Lab. My research lies at the intersection of landscape, population, and community ecology. I am interested in developing integrated models for understanding and predicting how wildlife populations…[read more]

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Plant Biogeography, Fire Ecology

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Improving plant species distribution modeling.

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Fire ecology

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I am interested in fire policies and their effects to ecosystems in California’s Sierra Nevada forests. My proposed research examines both historic and altered fire regime effects on biodiversity, functional diversity, and the forest’s water…[read more]

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Agroecology, biological control, landscape ecology, political economy of agricultural development

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My research broadly explores the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning in agriculture. More specifically, my dissertation project will evaluate how changes in biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (landscape- and field-scale) influences biological control…[read more]

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Forest Management, Natural Resource Institutions, Migration and Natural Resources, Ghana, Kenya

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Lauren’s research centers on local forest use in Kenya and Ghana. She is particularly interested in how state decentralization policies affect livelihoods of those living around forests at the same time that competition for forest resources…[read more]

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political ecology of war; ceasefire capitalism; Burma-China borderlands, production and regulation of narco-political territories

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My research is situated on the Burma-China border where I initially investigated cross-border timber trade in the mid-2000s. My current dissertation project follows emerging post-war land governance changes in northern Burma’s uplands with the arrival…[read more]

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Environmental Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry (of soils, oceans and the atmosphere), Stable Isotopes, Nutrient Cycles, Sulfur, Astrobiology, Environmental Education

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My PhD research explores the terrestrial sulfur cycle along natural gradients. I am investigating the impact of several factors (climate, topography, landscape age and parent material) on soil sulfur. I use stable sulfur isotopes as…[read more]