Power Lab: Food Web Research
Current Lab Members
Lab Alumni

Mary Power,
Professor, Integrative Biology
Faculty Manager, Angelo Coast Range Reserve
Director, California Biodiversity Center

Personal History and Professional Interests
Curriculum Vitae


Collin Bode, Staff GIS/Informatics Researcher
M.S. 1998 Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
Project Manager for the Desktop Watershed IP, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED). Designed and created the Angelo Reserve Environmental Observatory. I work in wireless habitat monitoring, spatial issues in ecological modelling, LiDAR feature extraction, ecoinformatics, and open source GIS.
email: collin@berkeley.edu

Maria Goodrich, Graduate Student
My research is focused on the ecology of environmental biofilms. I am interested in understanding the strength and nature of interactions that take place among biofilm community members. Currently I am examining how bacterial-algal interactions in epilithic biofilms change according to light and nutrient availability at different drainage network positions in a stream ecosystem.
email: goodrich@berkeley.edu

Mike Limm, Graduate Student
 My primary interest is understanding how the physical characteristics of a drainage network influence the way carbon and nutrients move through and between terrestrial and aquatic communities. My current focus is on hydrologic and hydraulic controls on food webs and the influence of food web composition on ecosystem processes. I also like fish.

Charlene Ng, Graduate Student
Bill Rainey Bill Rainey, Associate Specialist
Ph.D., Zoology, U.C. Berkeley, 1985
Trophic exchange between terrestrial and aquatic communities in riparian habitats, landscape and seasonal patterns of prey production and bat community foraging activity along drainage networks; food web tracers; bat phylogeography and conservation biology.
   

Jack Sculley, Graduate Student
My main research interests center around what traits induce stability or instability in communities, particularly with respect to climatic disturbance and changes in disturbance regimes over long time-scales. A topic of major interest is how mutualisms expand species constraint envelopes--e.g. corals can colonize nutrient-poor tropics, redwoods can colonize dry climates by using fungi to tap fog water (apparently) etc.--and how the flip side may be vulnerability to disturbance and/or climate change. I am interested in how species interactions effects at the food-web/community level scale-up over larger spatial and temporal scales to impact biogeographic distributions, and similarly how climatic processes scale-down to ecological time and space scales. I am considering redwoods and their endosymbiotic fungi as a sample system to model computationally, and compare with field experiments and paleo-ecological data.

Wil Torres , Graduate Student

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