Denise Colombano

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

PhD, Ecology, University of California, Davis (2019)

BS, Environmental Biology and Management, University of California, Davis (2010)

Research Interests / Specializations:

Estuarine Ecology, Salt Marsh Ecology, Food Web Ecology, Climate Change

Research Description:

Denise uses Multivariate Autoregressive State Space (MARSS) models to understand long-term climate change impacts on estuarine fish communities.

Selected Publications

Colombano, D.D., Litvin, S.Y., Ziegler, S.L., Alford, S.B., Baker, R., Barbeau, M.A., Cebrián, J., Connolly, R.M., Currin, C.A., Deegan, L.A., Lesser, J.S., et al. 2021. Climate change implications for tidal marshes and food web linkages to estuarine and coastal nekton. Estuaries and Coasts, pp.1-12.

Colombano, D.D., Manfree, A.D., Teejay, A.O., Durand, J.R. and Moyle, P.B., 2020. Estuarine-terrestrial habitat gradients enhance nursery function for resident and transient fishes in the San Francisco Estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 637, pp.141-157.

Ziegler, S.L., Baker, R., Crosby, S.C., Colombano, D.D., Barbeau, M.A., Cebrian, J., Connolly, R.M., Deegan, L.A., Gilby, B.L., Mallick, D., Martin, C.W., et al. 2021. Geographic variation in salt marsh structure and function for nekton: a guide to finding commonality across multiple scales. Estuaries and Coasts, pp.1-11.

Baker, R., Taylor, M.D., Able, K.W., Beck, M.W., Cebrian, J., Colombano, D.D., Connolly, R.M., Currin, C., Deegan, L.A., Feller, I.C., Gilby, B.L., et al. 2020. Fisheries rely on threatened salt marshes. Science, 370(6517), pp.670-671.

Honors and Awards

Delta Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020-2022)

Delta Science Predoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)

E-mail: denise.colombano@berkeley.edu

Mailing address Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
UC Berkeley
130 Mulford Hall #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720

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