Jen Skene, PhD 2009
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow in the UC Museum of Paleontology
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Joel Abraham, PhD 2008
On the importance of plant phenology and resource use in the invasion of California coastal grasslands
Current Position: SimBiotic Software - Educational Assessment Specialist
Margaret Metz, PhD 2007
Spatiotemporal variation in seedling dynamics and the maintenance of diversity in an Amazonian forest
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow in David Rizzo's lab, UC Davis
Rebecca Lutzy, M.A. 2006
Current Position: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Masters student
Peter Kennedy, PhD 2005
Ecological factors affecting forest encroachment into coastal California grasslands
Current position: Professor, Department of Biology, Lewis and Clark College
Meredith Thomsen, PhD 2005
Ecological resistance, propagule supply and the invasion of California coastal prairie by the European grass Holcus lanatus L.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Jodi McGraw, PhD 2004
The interacting effects of natural disturbances and competition with exotic plant species on native plants in sandhills habitat of central coastal California.
Neil Hausmann, PhD 2004 (co-advised with T. Dawson)
On the adaptive role of water use efficiency in plant drought response.
Current Position: Research scientist at Pioneer Hi-Bred, DuPont Company
Doris Vidal, PhD 2001 (co-advised with A. Horne)
Tolerance and adaptation of aquatic oligochaetes to mercury contamination.
Current position: Research scientist with the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority, a joint powers government agency focusing on marine environmental research.
Mary F. Poteet, PhD 2001
Effects of disturbance on host-parasite interactions: a case study involving the Pacific giant salamander.
Current position: Research Fellow, Section of Integrative Biology, Environmental Sciences Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
Jonathan M. Levine, PhD 2000 (co-advised with C.D'Antonio)
Ecological determinants and consequences of plant species diversity along a California stream.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mary G. Gleason, Ph.D. 1994
Factors influencing the recovery of coral after natural disturbance on reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia.
Current position: Conservation Planner, The Nature Conservancy; formerly Senior Research Scientist, Tetra Tech, Inc., San Francisco, California.
Peter M. Kotanen, PhD 1994
Revegetation of meadows disturbed by feral pigs ( Sus scrofia L.) in Mendocino County, California.
Current position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Botany, University of Toronto.
Stuart K. Allison, PhD 1991
Variation in response to a continuum of stress and disturbance in a salt marsh plant assemblage.
Current position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, Knox College.
Edwin D. Grosholz, PhD 1990
The population dynamics of terrestrial isopods and an iridescent virus.
Current position: Associate Specialist in Cooperative Extensioin, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis.
H. Elizabeth Braker, PhD 1986 (co-advised with R. Colwell)
Host plant relationships of the neotropical grasshopper Microtylopteryx hebardi Rehn (Acrididae: Omnatolampinae).
Current position: Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, Occidental College.
Ilze K. Berzins, PhD 1985 (co-advised with R. Caldwell)
The dynamics of beach wrack inverbrate communities: an evaluation of habitat use patterns.
Current position: Curator of animal health and research, The Florida Aquarium, Tampa, Florida.
Jane A. Sherfy, PhD 1985 (deceased)
Aspects of the foraging behavior of the painted ghost crab ( Ocypode gaudichaudii ): the influence of density dependent agonistic interactions, predation and reproductive biology.
Beth Okamura, PhD 1984 (co-advised with M. Koehl)
Functional and ecological consequences of aggregation and coloniality in benthic, marine suspension feeders.
Current position: Reader in Aquatic Biology, Division of Zoology, University of Reading, UK.
Peter H. Pressley, PhD. 1983
The evolution of hermaphrodism in coral reef fishes.
Current position: Software engineer, Pressley Consulting, Inc., Ketchum, ID.
M. Kimberly Smith, PhD 1983
Some ecological determinants of the growth and survival of juvenile penaeid shrimp Penaus setiferus (Linnaeus) in Terminos Lagoon, Campeche, Mexico, with special attention to the role of population density.
Catherine E. Halversen, M.A. 1982
Habitat selection and other aspects of the ecology of some tidepool sculpins.
Current position: Co-director for Marine Activities, Resources, and Education, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley.
James M. Watanabe, PhD 1982
Aspects of community organization in a temperate kelp forest habitat: factors influencing the bathymetric segregation of three species of herbivorous gastropods.
Current position: Lecturer in Marine Ecology and Invertebrate Zoology, Hopkins Marine Laboratory, Stanford University. |
