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Workgroup Information Conservation Biology |
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Summary | The mission of this multicampus workgroup is to plan and offer opportunities in the multidisciplinary and applied field of conservation biology, including research, education, and service-oriented activities such as organizing a UC Summer Symposium in Conservation Biology, maintaining a UC conservation biology website, and providing expertise for state issues in conservation biology. |
Website: | http://www.grcp.ucdavis.edu/projects/CBWGdex.htm |
Workgroup Chair Information | |
Name | Calvin Qualset (Chair) |
Phone | (530) 754-8502 |
coqualset@ucdavis.edu | |
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Membership List |
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AES Scientist | ||
Allen, Michael | Plant Pathology | |
Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology | ||
Allen-Diaz, Barbara | ||
CE Advisor, Emeritus | Rangeland Ecology and Management | |
Beissinger, Steven | Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) | |
Professor | ||
Carrizosa, Santiago | Genetic Resources Conservation Program | |
Asst. Research Ecologist | conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity | |
Elliott-Fisk, Deborah | Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology | |
Sr. Lecturer | Biogeography; ecosystem management; paleoecology; conservation biology, especially in mountain systems and California | |
Harrison, Susan | Environmental Science and Policy | |
Professor, Conservation Biologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station | Population dynamics; community structure and conservation biology, especially the roles of spatial factors such as patchiness, habitat heterogenity and dispersal; field experiments (mainly on insects and plants) and theory; basic and theoretical ecology; | |
User, Unverified | ||
McGuire, Patrick | Department of Plant Sciences | |
Genetics, genetic resources conservation, conservation biology, conservation genetics | ||
Moyle, Peter | Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology | |
Professor | Ecology and conservation of freshwater and estuarine fishes | |
Nunney, Leonard | ||
Professor | ||
Qualset, Calvin | ||
Director Emeritus-Genetic Resources Conservation Program Professor Emeritus Research Professor | Agronomy, genetics, quantitative inheritance, plant breeding; plant genetic resources | |
Redak, Richard | Entomology (UCR) | |
Entomologist Professor & Chair | Integrated management of insect pests on commercial floricultural and ornamental plants, ecology of plant-insect interactions within the urban/natural/agricultural interface, community ecology of insects, conservation biology | |
Rogers, Deborah | ||
Resource Analyst | ||
Rotenberry, John | Dept. of Biology, UC Riverside | |
Professor | community ecology and conservation biology; interaction of environmental factors to determine species diversity and community composition | |
Sih, Andrew | Environmental Science and Policy | |
Ecologist in the AES | Andys Sih's laboratory works on the evolution of ecologically important behaviors (predator-prey, mating, and social behaviors) life history traits, and how these influence population and community ecological patterns. Most projects examine freshwater or ... | |
CE Advisor | ||
Bell, Carl | Ventura County | |
Regional Advisor | Invasive Plants | |
Drill, Sabrina | Los Angeles County | |
Natural Resources Advisor - Emeritus | Climate resilience, urban ecology, watershed education, community science and engagement, environmental justice, conservation and restoration of aquatic and wildland habitats and anadramous fishes, aquatic and terrestrial invasive species, fire ecology and landscape preparation, land use and conservation planning | |
Marcum, Daniel | Shasta-Lassen Office | |
Farm Advisor - Emeritus | Irrigation, plant nutrition, salinity, entomology, sustainable agriculture, agronomy, vegetable crops, engineering, plant pathology, integrated pest management, systems management, economics, weed control, nematology, strawberry nursery production, garlic, wild rice, alfalfa, timothy, sugarbeet, pasture, range, biodiversity, peppermint, viticulture | |
McArthur, Karl | San Bernardino County | |
Desert Natural Resource Advisor | Policy Issues/Desert Regions of Tri-County area, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial | |
Mellano, Valerie | San Diego North County Office | |
Acting County Director, Environmental Issues Advisor | Water quality, waste management, land use, urban-rural interface, biotechnology | |
CE Specialist | ||
Allen, Edith | Botany & Plant Sciences | |
CE Natural Resources Specialist & Professor of Plant Ecology | ||
Dewees, Christopher | Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology | |
Specialist in Cooperative Extension Marine Fisheries, Emeritus | Marine fisheries; human dimensions of fisheries management; commercial fisheries technology | |
Grosholz, Edwin | Environmental Science and Policy | |
Professor and Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz Specialist in Cooperative Extension | Coastal and Inland Water Resources | |
McCreary, Douglas | ||
Natural Resource Specialist Emeritus | Oak regeneration, woodland management; and agroforestry | |
Merenlender, Adina | Hopland Research & Extension Center | |
Professor of Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science | conservation biology, land use planning, habitat connectivity, environmental education, climate stewardship | |
Scott, Thomas | Earth Sciences | |
Natural Resources, Wildlife Specialist | Conservation of wildlife, wildlife/urban interface. Response of wildlife to human disturbances | |
Other ANR | ||
Bugg, Robert | Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP) | |
Information Analyst | Develop, gather and disseminate information on cover cropping, pest management and restoration ecology | |
(info only) Filmer, Ann | Department of Plant Sciences | |
Communications | 1) Communications; 2) Floriculture production, postharvest handling of ornamentals | |
Giusti, Gregory | Lake County | |
Forests & Wildland Ecology Advisor- Emeritus | Forest management, wildlife management, vertebrate pest management, wetlands, watersheds, fisheries and freshwater ecology | |
Non-UC | ||
Walter, Hartmut | Dept. of Geography, UC Los Angeles | |
Professor | viable population maintenance; functional landscape analysis, geographic concepts for conservation biology, extinction processes, birds, reptiles | |
Other UC | ||
Ambrose, Richard | School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles | |
Professor | inventory of coastal resources (subtidal, intertidal, wetland); restoration ecology; environmental impact assessment and mitigation; kelp beds; coastal wetlands; invertebrates; algae; fish | |
User, Unverified | ||
Bowler, Peter | Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine | |
Assoc. Adjunct Professor | habitat restoration (coastal sage scrub and wetlands); endangered species; freshwater mollusks; riparian plants | |
Bryant, Peter | Dept. of Developmental & Cell Biology, UC Irvine | |
Professor | developmental biology; teaches biodiversity and conservation | |
Canestro, Don | UC KS Norris Rancho Marino Reserve | |
Reserve Manager, NRS | restoration, land management | |
Doak, Daniel | Dept. of EE Biology, UC Santa Cruz | |
Assoc. Professor | responses of plants to herbivores; metapopulation structure in animals; population viability | |
Gilbert, Gregory | Dept. of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz | |
Assoc. Professor | microbial-plant interactions; fungal pathogens; disease processes; temperate and tropical forests; fungal diversity | |
Holl, Karen | ||
Johnson, Michael | ||
Koopowitz, Harold | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine | |
Professor Emeritus | plant species extinction rates; conservation of exotic plant species by seed and pollen banks; petalloid monocots; tropics | |
Lidicker, Jr., William | Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley | |
Professor Emeritus | conservation biology theory; landscape ecology; systematics of mammals; dispersal biology | |
N Glazer, Alexander | ||
Powell, Frank | White Mountain Research Station, UC San Diego | |
Professor/Director | respiratory physiology; birds; physiological acclimation and genetic adaptations to altitude; interdisciplinary education | |
Rothstein, Stephen | Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara | |
Professor | breeding biology of birds; genetic and behavioral variation; songbird species; riparian species | |
User, Unverified | ||
Wayne, Robert | Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology, UC Los Angeles | |
Professor | conservation genetics, gene flow, mammalian carnivores, butterflies, marine mammals | |
Woodruff, David | Biological Sciences, UC San Diego | |
Professor | defining evolutionarily significant units for conservation management and monitoring genetic erosion; endangered species of tropical mammals and birds | |
Membership Totals | ||
Number of Members | 47 | |
ANR Members | 46 | |
Non-ANR | 1 | |
Info Only | 1 |