Faculty

David Ackerly

Dean of Rausser College of Natural Resources and Professor

Rodrigo Almeida

Professor & Hildebrand-Laumeister Chair in Plant Pathology
Ecology of emerging plant diseases and insect-microbe interactions

Ronald Amundson

Professor
Pedology isotope biogeochemistry, impact of climate and life on earth processes, soils in biogeochemical cycles, human impacts on soils and ecosystems

Jillian Banfield

Professor
Geomicrobiology, environmental biogeochemistry, microbial community ecology and evolution

John Battles

Professor
Forest Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics

Benjamin Blonder

Associate Professor
Ecology, Global change, Plant ecophysiology, Community ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Useful plants, Machine learning, Eco-informatics, Mathematical modeling, Remote sensing

Carl Boettiger

Associate Professor
Theoretical ecology, ecoinformatics, modeling, data science, resilience, early warning signals, decision theory

Timothy Bowles

Associate Professor
agroecology, soil ecology and biogeochemistry, plant-soil-microbe interactions

Justin Brashares

Professor and G.R. & W.M. Goertz Chair
Wildlife Ecology, Conservation and Socioeconomics

Rachel Carlson

Assistant Professor
Marine ecology; land-sea connectivity; coastal resilience; geospatial science; ocean policy and governance; social-ecological systems; coral reefs; California Current System