Steve Beissinger – beis@berkeley.edu
I am a Professor of Conservation Biology and hold the A. Starker Leopold Chair in Wildlife Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. I have appointments with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the Energy and Resources Group on campus. I served as Chair of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy Management from 2001-04. Read more…
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Juan Li – juanli@berkeley.edu
I am a Chinese conservation biologist interested in the fate of biodiversity in the Anthropocene, especially snow leopards and associated species in High Asia. I obtained my Ph.D in Peking University in China, focusing on the ecology and conservation strategy of snow leopards in the Sanjiangyuan Area on the Tibetan Plateau. My current research focuses on the climate change impacts on snow leopards in High Asia. Read more…
Lindsey Rich – lindseyrich@berkeley.edu
My research focuses on addressing conservation or management challenges at the population, community, and landscape levels. Specifically, I collect wildlife data using an array of field techniques (e.g., public surveys, camera traps, radiotelemetry) and employ novel, quantitative approaches to assess this data and address questions pertaining to population dynamics and community ecology. Read more…
Eric Riddell – riddell@berkeley.edu
Graduate Students
Nathan Schmidt – vanschmidt@berkeley.edu
My research interests lie at the intersection of landscape, population, and community ecology. I am interested in developing integrated models for understanding and predicting how populations will respond to human disturbances to both landscapes and communities, especially in the context of climate change. Read more…
Sarah Maclean – maclean@berkeley.edu
I am a PhD student in the Beissinger Lab. My current interests are in avian spatial ecology. Particularly, I am interested in how bird distributions have changed in response to dramatic shifts in climate and land use, and how different land use patterns might facilitate or impede the ability of species to track their climate niche. Read more…
Kelly Iknayan – iknayank@berkeley.edu
My research interests include global change biology and community ecology with a particular focus on Californian avifauna. I am conducting my dissertation research, which focuses on avian distributional response to climate change in the Desert Southwest, as part of the Grinnell Resurvey Project. Read more…
Soorim Song – soorim.songbird@berkeley.edu
My current research interests are about the organismal response of birds to direct impacts of climate change; that is, the physiological stress that the birds will face due to climate change and their response to it. I attempt to fill the gap in our knowledge of climate change impacts by looking into the less-explored realm of heat and water stress in birds as the ambient temperature rises. Read more…
Sean Peterson – sean.peterson@berkeley.edu
I am a first-year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Beissinger on the ecology of Black Rails in the Sierra Nevada foothills. I am interested in spatial ecology, population modeling, and using novel technologies and methods to advance our understanding of animals. Read more…