Barnosky Book About Extinction
Submitted by khansen on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 13:32Professor Anthony Barnosky is the author of a new book, Dodging Extinction, which provides strategies for preventing the sixth mass extinction.
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Professor Anthony Barnosky is the author of a new book, Dodging Extinction, which provides strategies for preventing the sixth mass extinction.
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Lindsey Dougherty, a graduate student in Roy Caldwell's lab, and her research on disco clams is the focus of a NY Times article.
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Professor Brent Mishler and his research group published a major paper presenting new quantitative methods for assessing patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism on the landscape using collection data.
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Jeff Benca's computer rendering of the long-extinct lycopod, Leclercqia scolopendra, and accompanying article has been chosen as the cover of March’s centennial issue of the American Journal of Botany. Bencas is a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cynthia Looy's Lab.
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The Bakar Fellows Program supports innovative research by early career faculty at UC Berkeley. Associate Professor Daniela Kaufer is a 2013-14 Bakar Fellow, and her research is profiled in depth on the Bakar Fellow site.
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Professor Robert Dudley has published a new book (The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol; University of California Press, 2014) that assesses the evolutionary origins of attraction to alcohol.
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Research by members of Professor Nipam Patel's lab will be on display at the Xtreme Bugs Exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science through September 1, 2014.
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Research by Associate Professor Daniela Kaufer on the relationship between chronic stress and mental illness was the focus of new coverage from multiple news outlets, including the UC Berkeley NewsCenter and the LA Times.
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Professor Todd Dawson and Professor Mary Powers will receive $4.9M over the next five years as co-investigators to study the nearly 10,000 square kilometer Eel River watershed in Northern California and how its vegetation, geology and topography affect water flow all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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Research that dispels the theory of the unimportance of the Y Chromosome co-Authored by Professor Rasmus Nielsen is the focus of a recent UC Berkeley NewsCenter article.
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