Douglas McCauley

Education

B.A. - University of California at Berkeley, Integrative Biology

B.A. - University of California at Berkeley, Political Science

PhD - Stanford University, Biology/Hopkins Marine Station

NSF IRFP Postdoctoral Fellow - University of California at Berkeley

Postdoctoral Researcher – Stanford University

Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher - Princeton University

Selected Publications

• McCauley, D. J., Pinsky, M. L., Palumbi, S. R., Estes, J. A., Joyce, F. H., & Warner, R. R. (2015). Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean. Science, 347(6219), 1255641.

• Pottinger, A. S., Geyer, R., Biyani, N., Martinez, C. C., Nathan, N., Morse, M. R., ... & McCauley, D. J. (2024). Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Science, 386(6726), 1168-1173.

• McCauley, D. J., Woods, P., Sullivan, B., Bergman, B., Jablonicky, C., Roan, A., ... & Worm, B. (2016). Ending hide and seek at sea. Science, 351(6278), 1148-1150.

• McCauley, D. J. (2006). Selling out on nature. Nature, 443(7107), 27-28.

• McCauley, D. J. (2017). Digital nature: Are field trips a thing of the past?. Science, 358(6361), 298-300.

• McCauley, D. J., Francis H. Joyce, and Jane Lubchenco. Conservation: smart advocacy needs data. Nature 540.7631 (2016): 38-38.

• Golden, C. D., Allison, E. H., Cheung, W. W., Dey, M. M., Halpern, B. S., McCauley, D. J., ... & Myers, S. S. (2016). Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health. Nature, 534(7607), 317-320.

• Brashares, J.S., Abrahms, B., Fiorella, K.J., Golden, C.D., Hojnowski, C.E., Marsh, R.A., McCauley, D.J., Nuñez, T.A., Seto, K. and Withey, L., 2014. Wildlife decline and social conflict. Science, 345(6195), pp.376-378.

• Pinsky, M. L., Eikeset, A. M., McCauley, D. J., Payne, J. L., & Sunday, J. M. (2019). Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms. Nature, 569(7754), 108-111.

• Payne, J. L., Bush, A. M., Heim, N. A., Knope, M. L., & McCauley, D. J. (2016). Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans. Science, 353(6305), 1284-1286.

• Nisi, A.C., Welch, H., Brodie, S., Leiphardt, C., Rhodes, R., Hazen, E.L., Redfern, J.V., Branch, T.A., Barreto, A.S., Calambokidis, J., McCauley, D.J. and Clavelle, T., 2024. Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans. Science, 386(6724), pp.870-875.

• Dedman, S., Moxley, J.H., Papastamatiou, Y.P., Braccini, M., Caselle, J.E., Chapman, D.D., Cinner, J.E., Dillon, E.M., Dulvy, N.K., Dunn, R.E., McCauley, D.J. and Espinoza, M., 2024. Ecological roles and importance of sharks in the Anthropocene Ocean. Science, 385(6708), p.adl2362.