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Mary Power,
Professor, Integrative Biology
Faculty Manager, Angelo Coast Range Reserve
Director, California Biodiversity Center
Personal History and Professional
Interests
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Collin Bode, Staff Research Data Analyst
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 |
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Alessandro Catenazzi, Post-doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 2006
My two main areas of research are cross-habitat resource subsidies, especially aquatic subsidies to terrestrial ecosystems, and the ecology and conservation of amphibians. I am interested in exploring the effects of spatial subsidies on population dynamics and trophic interactions in recipient coastal and riparian ecosystems. I am currently involved in projects aimed at assessing conservation threats in several foothill and high-elevation frogs from California and the eastern slopes of the Andes.
website: http://acatenazzi.googlepages.com |
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Paula Furey, Post-doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, 2008
My overall interests include freshwater ecology of streams, lakes, reservoirs, and wetwalls, especially benthic communities & fresh water algae. In particular I am interested in algal biodiversity, the application of algal taxonomy to answer ecological questions, and exploring how algae are drivers and indicators of ecosystem structure and function. Recent research has focused on the taxonomy and ecology of the acidophilic diatom Eunotia (Contact me if you have some interesting Eunotia taxa!!). Currently, I am exploring photogrammetric assessment of algae to determine ecologically significant variation in algal assemblages at watershed scales and the ecosystem contributions of Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) and its associated midge across different watershed scales.
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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 |
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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.
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Sarah J. Kupferberg,
Ph.D. Visiting Scholar
email: skupferberg@berkeley.edu
I study the effects of hydropower facilities on aquatic resources in California rivers. The river breeding Foothill yellow legged frog, Rana boylii is a sentinel species in this effort. I focus on flow velocity and water temperature as the key abiotic conditions influencing frog populations. My approach combines field experiments, long term monitoring, and population modeling. The work is supported by the Public Interest Energy Research Program of the California Energy Commission. (http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/PulsedFlow/Kupferberg%202007%20b.pdf) |
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David Moreno Mateos, Post-doctoral Researcher
Ph. D., Biological Sciences, Universidad de Alcal, Spain, 2008.
My main research interest is the role of aquatic ecosystems (rivers and wetlands) as subsidies sources in the matrix of drier landscapes. Specially, how vertebrates, birds and bats, make preferential use of them regarding to purely terrestrial habitats. I like using automated field monitoring as a way to know what exactly is happening on real time. I am also interested in knowing the driving variables that make restoration projects succeed or fail, especially, wetland restoration projects. Finally, I am also interested in bird population dynamics under intense human influence. |
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Charlene
Ng, Graduate Student
My research focuses on the transport and effects of chemicals and nutrients through aquatic ecosystems. In particular, I am interested in how chemicals in freshwater systems affect biota locally, how much downstream transport occurs, and what the effects are in the marine environment. To study these questions, I work on pyrethroid pesticides in three rivers in the Monterey Bay area, and Epithemia in the Eel River of California. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Wil Torres, Graduate Student
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