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...
Eoin Brodie is a Senior Scientist in the Ecology Department of Berkeley Lab’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) where he serves as the Deputy Director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division. He is also Program Domain Lead for Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences. At the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Brodie is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and he co-directs the Joint Berkeley Initiative in Microbiomes Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. from University College Dublin...
Brandon Collins has strong working relationships with forest managers, which yields a great two-way exchange of knowledge and ideas. Brandon draws from this exchange to shape and ground the research he's involved in. His active areas of investigation include: 1) vegetation and fuel development following fuel reduction treatments and wildfires, 2) landscape-level effects of fuel treatments on wildfire patterns, and 3) fire and vegetation feedbacks in areas managed with natural fire.
