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...
Brandon Collins is the Regional Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with UC Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Brandon served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Fire Ecology for six years (2011-17). He is also an associate editor for the Journal of Forestry, which he’s done since 2014. Brandon serves on several teams tasked to develop forest management guidelines for reforestation, fire, forest restoration, and California Spotted Owl conservation. He...
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...
