Michael AlfaroProfessor and Chair vertebrate diversification and macroevolution (especially coral reef fishes), functional and evolutionary morphology, comparative methods, phylogenetics |
Priyanga AmarasekareProfessor Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in variable environments |
Paul BarberProfessor Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. |
Daniel BlumsteinProfessor The evolution of behavior and the integration of behavior and conservation biology. |
Robert Eagle TripatiAssistant Professor |
Peggy FongProfessor Marine ecology of coastal ecosystems. |
Nandita GarudAssistant Professor Population genetics; evolution in natural populations with a current focus on the microbiome. |
Gregory GretherProfessor Causes and consequences of aggression and reproductive interference between species; character displacement; species recognition; evolution of coloration; the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution; animal behavior |
David JacobsProfessor Evolution/Development of Invertebrate Body Plans, Paleobiology and Marine Speciation |
Rachel KennisonAssociate Teaching Professor |
Nathan KraftAssociate Professor Plant community ecology, with an emphasis on functional and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly and species coexistence; tropical forest dynamics; biogeography and the assembly of regional biotas. |
James Lloyd-SmithProfessor Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases; emerging pathogens and zoonoses; host population heterogeneities; integration of dynamics across scales. |
Kirk LohmuellerAssociate Professor Population genetics; Statistical methods in evolutionary and medical genetics; genetic variation data |
Glen MacDonaldDistinguished Professor Glen M Sproul dit MacDonald works on issues of climate change and ecological and societal responses. |
Peter NonacsProfessor Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. |
Elsa OrdwayAssistant Professor Global change and forest ecosystems; remote sensing; ecosystem ecology; tropical ecology; social-ecological systems; land-use change; conservation. |
Noa Pinter-WollmanAssociate Professor The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. |
Lawren SackProfessor Ecology and physiology of plant species coexistence. Hydraulics of plant water transport. Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. Forest dynamics and ecohydrology. Conservation physiology. |
Van SavageProfessor Effects of climate on ecological systems; species interactions; evolutionary dynamics; mathematical biology; biological scaling in relation to thermal responses, vascular systems, sleep, and tumor growth |
Barney SchlingerProfessor Steroid hormone synthesis and action in birds; hormonal control of brain and behavior in tropical bird species |
Karen SearsProfessor Developmental and evolutionary biology of mammals |
H. Bradley ShafferDistinguished Professor Population biology, landscape ecology, and conservation genomics of reptiles and amphibians, particularly in California |
Thomas SmithDistinguished Professor Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics. |
Victoria SorkDistinguished Professor Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genomics of tree populations; evolutionary biology and conservation science of oaks; phylogeography; hybridization and introgression; molecular ecology of pollen and seed dispersal. |
Morgan TingleyAssociate Professor Effects of global change on biodiversity; hierarchical modeling; fire and Californian wildlife; ornithology; conservation. |
Tina TreudeProfessor |
Pamela YehAssociate Professor Adaptation to novel environments; evolution of drug resistance in bacteria; urban ecology and evolution |
Felipe ZapataAssistant Professor Evolutionary biology of flowering plants, with a particular focus on the Neotropics, California, and Hawaii |
