• PhD in Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook University, 1995
• M.S. in Biology, University of Houston, Texas, 1987
• B.A. in Zoology, University of New Hampshire, 1983

• General Zoology (Zool 110)
• Invertebrate Zoology (ZOOL 314)
• Intertidal Ecology (Bio 430)
• Advanced Invertebrate Zoology (Zoo 552)
• Seminar on Invasive Species (Bio 685)

Graduate Students

Current

Taylor Bruntil, Ismael Chowdhury, Lindsey Desantis, Duncan Jackson, Dana Johnstun, Franklin Moitoza, Sheena Stephens, Marina Storey, Alex Strawhand, Claire Windecker

Former

• Jason Lopiccolo "Variation of Larval Traits and Copper Tolerance in an Invasive Cryptic Species Complex (Watersipora: Bryozoa)"
• Hannah Lee "Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic relationships of Cheilostome Bryozoans in the Eastern Pacific"
• Jonathan Centoni "Negatively correlated abundance suggests competition between red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) and red sea urchins (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) insidea nad outside established MPAs closed to commercial sea urchin harvest in northern California"
• Katie Houle "The effects of suspended sediment and accreted sediment on the marine invertebrate fouling community of Humboldt Bay"
• Brendan Kelly "The impacts of Spartina densiflora on benthic macroinvertebrates in a Humboldt Bay salt marsh"
• Kellan Korcheck "Variation in temperature tolerance in a widely invasive bryozoan species complex (Watersipora spp.)"
• Michelle Succow "Population characteristics and trophic interactions between Pacific mole crabs and redtail surfperch on northern California sandy beaches"
• Cara McGary "A long term comparison of rocky intertidal communities in Redwood National and State Parks"
• Alison Young "The effects of temperature on the composition of communities associated with Mytilus californianus"
• Kirby Morejohn "Growth inhibition of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) infested with an endolithic sponge (Cliona sp.)"
• Matthew Nelson "Growth morphology and succession in a temperate marine fouling community"
• Julie Koeppel "High predation may hinder native oyster (Ostrea Lurida) restoration in North Humboldt bay, California"
• Emily Wilson "The facilitative role of an introduced bryozoan (Watersipora spp.): structuring fouling community assemblages within Humboldt Bay"
• Julie Kelly "Distribution, genetic differentiation, and assortative mating of distinct morphotypes of Diaulula sandiegensis, a nudibranch with high dispersal potential"
• Catherine Roscoe "Three factors affecting the invasion of Watersipora subtorquata in the marine fouling community of Humboldt Bay, California"
• Emily Morris "Variation in photosynthate release from symbiotic dinoflagellates and its potential role in cnidarian health" (Co-advised by Dr. Ruth Gates, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)
• Matt Absher "Boulders over easy: Natural and anthropogenic disturbance in Patrick's Point State Park"

• PhD 2016, The University of Texas at Austin

• Microbial Ecology
• General Microbiology
• Bioinformatics
• Marine Microbiology
• Sci100

Graduate Students

Current Students:
Parker Lund, Megan Teigen, Jonas Sotingco, Victoria Cifelli, Amelia Jackson, Jakob Joachin

Previous Students:

Fiona Connor
Sandrine Thompson. graduation: 2022. Title: Environmental effects on constructed wetland microbial diversity and function in the context of wastewater management.

• B.S. University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• M.S. University of Victoria, British Columbia
• Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz

• Mammalogy
• Biology of Marine Mammals
• Comparative Animal Behaviour
• Marine Mammal Field Techniques
• Desert Ecology
• Introduction to Undergraduate Research
• Science 100: Becoming a STEM Scientist in the 21st Century

Graduate Students

Current:

• Ashley Jacob
• Allison Lui
• Robyn Norman

Former:

• Wiley Archibald
• Allison Fuller
• Emma Levy
• Aicha Ougzin
• Mary Beth Pacewicz
• Stephanie Holzwarth
• Ryan Jenkinson
• Caitlyn Toropova

• BA (1983) Ohio University
• MS (1988) University of Wyoming
• PhD (2001) Duke University

• Biology of Microfungi BOT 358
• Biology of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes BOT 359
• Biology of Fleshy Fungi BOT 360
• Forest Pathology BOT 394
• Plants and Civilization BOT 300, Tropical Biology

Graduate Students

Current: 

Sarah Norvell (2020-): Lichen diversity of the Horse Mountain Botanical Area, Six Rivers National Forest, CA.

Caitlyn Allchin (2020-):Conservation biology of the endangered Lassic lupine, a California serpentine-endemic.

Former:

Jordan Mayor (2004-05): Ectomycorrhizal influence on leaf litter decomposition in monodominant tropical forests of Guyana.

Lance Woolley (2005-06): Reiteration in the monodominant tropical tree Dicymbe corymbosa (Caesalpiniaceae) and its potential adaptive significance.

Tara Fulgenzi (2007-09): Systematic studies on Boletaceae (Basidiomycota) of Guyana.

Ashley Hawkins (2007-09): Forest pathogen dynamics in old-growth mixed coniferous forests of the Coast Range, Northern California.

Jessie Uehling (2010-2012): Systematics and molecular ecology of Cantharellales from the Guiana Shield.

Arthur Grupe II (2014-2016): Systematics of Neotropical species of Sarcodon (Bankeraceae, Thelephorales).

Carolyn Delevich (2016-19):Ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly on seedlings of a Neotropical monodominant tree.

Kennan Mighell (2016-2020): Systematics of tropical Amanitaceae.

• BA (1989) Ithaca College
• PhD (1997) University of Michigan

• Population & Community Ecology
• Principles of Ecology
• Plant Ecology
• Environment & Culture: How People Transformed a Continent

Graduate Students

Current:
Emily Jackson, Jack Christy

Former:
Erin Alvey, Drew Bost, Jane Cipra, Melissa DeSiervo, David Franklin, Jenell Jackson, Marcus Jones, Helen Kurkjian, Sheilah Lilly, David Loya, Molly Smith Metok, Laura Morgan, Jason Nuckols, Jennifer Palladini, Ethan Reibsome, Andres Rodriguez, April Sahara, Joseph Saler, and Elizabeth Wu

• BS, Biology Oregon State University
• PhD, Zoology Oregon State University
• Postdoctoral Associate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

• Evolution (BIOL307)
• Genetics (BIOL340/BIOL340L)
• Molecular Genetics Lab (BIOL440)
• Principle of Animal Development (ZOOL476)
• Becoming a STEM scientist (SCI 100)

Graduate students

Emily Gremling (co-advised with John Reiss), Giusy (Sun) Lanzilli (co-advised with John Reiss), Stacie Nunes (co-advised with Sharyn Marks), Marilyn Sandoval, Luisa Segovia

• MSc (1993) University of Bucharest, Romania
• PhD (2004) Ohio University (Athens)

• BOT 105 General Botany
• BOT 322/522 Developmental Plant Anatomy
• BOT 372/572 Evolutionary Plant Morphology
• BOT 521 Paleobotany

• BSE (1980) Duke University
• PhD (1991) Brown University

• Animal physiology
• Human physiology
• Biology of the Chiroptera
• Biological Applications of Physics

Graduate Students

Current:

Ashley Abitz, Amon Armstrong, Zeinab (Rose) Hadar, Jason Holmes, Christina Walker

Former:

Amy Amones
Assessing monitoring techniques for bird populations in Sierra Nevada montane meadow and aspen communities.

Alyson Brokaw
Structure, variability, and behavioral responses to social calls in North American bat species.

Daniel Burrell
Patterns of nocturnal flight calling over four sites in northern California and southern Oregon.

Ryan Byrnes
Assessing Bioacoustic Techniques for Inventory and Monitoring of Forest Owls in the central Sierra Nevada, California

Jeffrey Clerk
An investigation of tree bat migration ecology using fatty acid signatures.

Aaron Corcoran
Automated acoustic identification of nine bat species of the eastern United States.

Kiera Freeman
Roosting behavior of a maternal colony of Townsends Big-eared bat, Corynorhinus townsendii.

Jean-Paul Kennedy
Bats of the northern California old growth redwood forest: The interaction of bats and old growth redwoods across a vertical gradient.

Zachary Loman
Response of a North American Wood Warbler, the Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) to Anthropogenic Noise

Gabe Reyes
The behavioral function of social calls in the migratory hoary bat Lasiurus cinereus.

Cameron Rognan
Bioacoustic techniques to monitor populations of Great Gray Owls (Strix nebulosa) in the Sierra Nevada.

Danielle (Skye) Salganek
Autumn roost selection by male hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) in northern California.

Amy Amones
Assessing monitoring techniques for bird populations in Sierra Nevada montane meadow and aspen communities.

Aaron Corcoran 
Automated acoustic identification of nine bat species of the eastern United States.

Jean-Paul Kennedy 
Bats of the northern California old growth redwood forest: The interaction of bats and old growth redwoods across a vertical gradient.

Cameron Rognan 
Bioacoustic techniques to monitor populations of Great Gray Owls (Strix nebulosa) in the Sierra Nevada.

Kiera Freeman 
Roosting behavior of a maternal colony of Townsends Big-eared bat, Corynorhinus townsendii.