Organisms & Environment

David Ackerly

Dean of Rausser College of Natural Resources and Professor

Rodrigo Almeida

Professor
Emerging plant disease ecology; plant pathology; insect–microbe interactions; plant–pathogen interactions; Xylella fastidiosa; pathogen evolution and population genetics; host shifts and local adaptation; insect vector biology; disease epidemiology; pathogen transmission; virulence and disease management.

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

Adrienne Correa

Associate Professor
Global change microbial ecology, symbiosis, environmental virology, coastal ecology, coral reefs, community-driven research, ocean solutions

Kent Daane

Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Control of insect pests in agricultural crops

Perry de Valpine

Professor
Ecological modeling, computational statistics, population ecology

Damian Octavio Elias

Professor
Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Biomechanics, Evolutionary Ecology, Biodiversity, Bioacoustics, Biotremology

Brian Fisher

Adjunct Professor

Brian L. Fisher is Chair of Entomology and Senior Curator at the California Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Full Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley, where he has held an appointment since 2004. His research focuses on biodiversity discovery, evolution, and conservation, particularly the extraordinary insect diversity of Madagascar. Combining extensive field exploration with taxonomy, phylogenomics, ecological monitoring, and biodiversity informatics, he has helped advance our understanding of tropical biodiversity...