Research Description
Our work (much of it with undergraduates) strives to inform better management and conservation of terrestrial and marine species and habitats at National Parks in California and the Western US. Current and recent projects focus on eelgrass restoration, prairie falcons, Northern spotted owls, harbor seals, tidewater gobies, Alcids, oceanographic changes in the California Current, estuarine dynamics, and red-legged frogs. For each of these studies, we use modern statistics (occupancy and state-space models, Bayesian causal inference) and tools such as stable isotope analyses to examine environmental and anthropogenic influences on populations that can guide informed management.
Education
BA - Geography / BA Environmental Studies, UCLA
MFS - Conservation Biology, Yale
PhD - Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
Recent Teaching
Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands (IB 158 LF / ESPM C107) - Fall 2023, 2024, 2025
Wildlife Ecology (ESPM 114) - Spring 2025
Senior Research Laboratory in Environmental Science (ESPM H175L) - Spring 2025, 2026
American Wildlife: Management and Policy in the 21st Century (ESPM 106) - Spring 2026
Ecology (ESPM/IB C153) - Planned Spring 2027
Selected Publications
Selected Honors and Awards
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2024 National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director’s Award for Natural Resources Research
Professional Service
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UC Berkeley Field Stations Advisory Committee (2023-Present)
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Pacific Northwest and Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Advisory Committees (2023 - Present)
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California Biodiversity Network Steering Committee (2023 - Present)
Marine Ecology, seabirds, marine mammals, Bayesian statistics and causal inference in ecology, stable isotopes, estuarine ecology.
