Humboldt State University

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General Information

Professor of Zoology
Marine Ecology
Phone: (707) 826-4924
Office: Science A 461
Email: mjb3@humboldt.edu
Personal Website: http://www.humboldt.edu/~mjb3/

Academic background

• BA University of California, Berkeley
• PhD University of California, Davis

Courses

• Principles of Biology
• Methods of Laboratory Instruction

Summary of research

Research interests include community ecology of salt marshes, coastal bays, intertidal rocky and sand beach environments, and nearshore benthos.

Sample publications

• Barnhart, R. A., M. J. Boyd, and J. E. Pequegnat. 1992. The ecology of Humboldt Bay, California: an estuarine profile. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. Biol. Bull. 1. 121 pp
• Kittelson, P.M. and M.J. Boyd. 1997. Mechanisms of expansion for an introduced species of cordgrass, Spartina densiflora, in Humboldt Bay, California. Estuaries 20: 770-778

Graduate students

N/A