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Gregory S. Gilbert

Gregory S. Gilbert

Professor, Director of UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot

Environmental Studies Department

Areas of expertise: Ecology, Evolution, Science Education, Natural History, Tropical Forest


Biography, Education and Training

Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá (1991-95) Ph.D. in Plant Pathology (Soil Science minor), University of Wisconsin-Madison,(1991, with Jo Handelsman and Jennifer Parke) Tropical Ecosystems Course, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica (1989) M.Sc. in Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988,with Jennifer Parke) B.S. in Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1985) SeaMester Program ... more »


Areas of expertise: Conservation, Disease and Immunity, Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Population Biology, Population Dynamics, Biomedical Sciences, Endangered Species


Biography, Education and Training

B.A. Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles 1995 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles  1995 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997 Ph.D. Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2003 Senior Research Scientist, Ecohealth Alliance (Consortium for Conservation Medicine) 2003-2008 Assistant Professor, UCSC 2008-2013 Associate Professor, UCSC 2014-2018 Professor, UCSC 2019-present


Areas of expertise: Ecology, Plant Biology, Conservation, Land Management, Evolution, Population Biology


Biography, Education and Training

A.B., University of Chicago Ph.D., University of Washington Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama


Areas of expertise: Mathematical Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Fisheries


Biography, Education and Training

Mathematical biology and evolutionary ecology with applications to climate resilience and natural resource management.  Areas of expertise include nolinear dynamics, chaos, and statistical modeling, contemporary evolution, and transgenerational plasticity.  

Daniel P Costa

Daniel P Costa

Director Institute of Marine Science, Distinguished Professor

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, Institute of Marine Sciences

Press Contact

costa@ucsc.edu

8314592786


Areas of expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Coastal Science, Animal Behavior, Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Ocean Studies, Scientific Method, Natural History


Biography, Education and Training

  Daniel Costa completed a B.A. at UCLA and a Ph.D. at U.C. Santa Cruz followed by postdoctoral research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research focuses on the ecology and physiology of marine mammals and seabirds, taking him to every continent and almost every habitat from the Galapagos to Antarctica. He has worked with a broad range of animals including turtles, penguins’ albatross, seals, sea lions, sirenians, whales and dolphins and has published over 400 scienti... more »

Press Contact

Mark Carr

Professor

mhcarr@ucsc.edu

831-246-3524


Areas of expertise: Ecology, Coastal Science, Conservation, Fisheries, Marine Biology, Population Dynamics, Sustainability, Science Communication


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz M.S., San Francisco State University Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara


Areas of expertise: Plant Sciences, Ecology, Biology, Climate Change, Plant Biology


Biography, Education and Training

Hon. B. Arts and Science, McMaster University, Canada M.Sc., University of Toronto, Canada Ph.D., University of Utah Post-doctorate, Miller Institute for Basic Research, University of California, Berkeley


Areas of expertise: Ecology, Conservation, Plant Sciences, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Land Management, Restoration Ecology


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. Biology with distinction, Stanford University  Ph.D. Biology, Virginia Polytechnic and State University DOE Distinguished Global Change Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University  

Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro

Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, Genomics Institute

Areas of expertise: Ancient DNA, Genomics, Ecology, Molecular Evolution, Evolution


Biography, Education and Training

BS, Ecology, University of Georgia (1999) MS, Ecology, University of Georgia (1999) DPhil, Zoology, Oxford University (2003)

Eric Palkovacs

Eric Palkovacs

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives, Director, Fisheries Collaborative Program; Associate Director, Institute of Marine Sciences

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department, IMS-Fisheries Collaborative Program, Office of Research

Areas of expertise: Biology, Climate Change, Coastal Science, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Evolution, Fisheries, Genetics, Water


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. University of Michigan Ph.D. Yale University


Areas of expertise: Evolution, Ecology


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana


Areas of expertise: Ecology


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. M. Tim Tinker is a consulting Research Wildlife Biologist with Nhydra Ecological Research, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz. He also holds adjunct appointments at Dalhousie University and University of Victoria. Since 1993 he has been studying sea otter populations and their roles as top predators in California, Alaska, British Columbia and the Russian Commander Islands.  Dr. Tinker was previously t... more »

Kathleen M Kay

Kathleen M Kay

Professor, Jean H. Langenheim Chair in Plant Ecology and Evolution

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department

Areas of expertise: Evolution, Plant Sciences, Ecology, Plant Biology, Tropical Forest


Biography, Education and Training

B.S., UC Davis Ph.D., Michigan State University National Parks Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley

Press Contact

Renee Wall

Assistant Director, PBSci Communications

rbwall@ucsc.edu

831-459-5238


Areas of expertise: Paleontology, Geochemistry, Ecology, Earth Sciences, Climate Change


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., University of Rochester M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan Postdoc., National Museum of National History, Smithsonian Institution Postdoc., Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Science  


Areas of expertise: Computer Science, Game Theory, Ecology, Machine Learning


Biography, Education and Training

I am a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UCSC. I have been at UCSC since 2001. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate student in Torino, Italy, then a Ph.D. student at Stanford, and then a postdoc at UC Berkeley. For three years, while on leave from UCSC, I was at Google, first as a visiting faculty, then eventually as a Staff Research Scientist. I co-founded two companies; SSB Progetti in Italy, and Camio in the US.      

Press Contact

Michael Loik

Professor

mloik@ucsc.edu

831-459-5785


Areas of expertise: Climate Change, Climatology, Water, Plant Sciences, Plant Biology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Hydrology


Biography, Education and Training

Postdoc, ESPM&ERG, UC Berkeley  Ph.D., Biology, Univ California, Los Angeles M.Sc., Botany, University of Toronto B.Sc., Biology, University of Toronto


Areas of expertise: Ecology, Evolution, Statistics


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Northern Arizona University Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Post-Doc: University of California, Santa Barbara

Stacy M Philpott

Stacy M Philpott

Professor, Ruth & Alfred Heller Chair in Agroecology, Faculty Director, Center for Agroecology

Environmental Studies Department

Areas of expertise: Ecology, Conservation, Agroecology and Agriculture, Environmental Studies, Mexico


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. in Zoology (University of Washington, 1995) Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Michigan, 2004)

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Lars Fehren-Schmitz

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute

Anthropology Department

Areas of expertise: Ancient DNA, Archaeology, Human Biology, Population Biology, Molecular Evolution, Ecology, Anthropology, Evolution


Biography, Education and Training

MA in Biological Anthropology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) and in Archaeology, University of Goettingen, Germany PhD (Dr. rer. nat) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Goettingen, Germany PostDoc in Anthropology & EEB, Yale University, USA  


Areas of expertise: Conservation, Ornithology, Tropical Forest, Ecology


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. Ecology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia)Ph.D. Environmental Science and Policy, Duke University (Durham, United States)

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