Stephanie Carlson
Professor and A.S. Leopold Chair in Wildlife Biology
Education and Research Positions
University of California, Berkeley
Assistant to Full Professor of Freshwater Fish Ecology
July 2008-
University of California, Santa Cruz
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Informatics, 2007-2008
University of Oslo, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow, May-Sept. 2006
University of Washington
PhD, 2006, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
MS, 2002, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Davis
BS, 1999, Evolution and Ecology
Awards and Fellowships
2022-23, Teaching Award Recipient, Rausser College of Natural Resources
2021, Inducted as a Fellow of the American Fisheries Society
2021, Elected as a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
7/2016 – present, A.S. Leopold Chair in Wildlife Biology, UC-Berkeley
2014-17, Rose Hills Innovator Award, UC-Berkeley
2013, Young Faculty Award, College of Natural Resources, UC-Berkeley
2011, Rising Star Distinguished Ecologist, Colorado State University Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
2010-11, Hellman Fellow, UC-Berkeley
2010, Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists
2009-10, Presidential Chair Teaching Fellow, UC-Berkeley
2007-08, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics, 2007 – 2008
2005, J. Frances Allen Scholarship Recipient, American Fisheries Society (awarded annually to an outstanding female doctoral student)
Professional Activities
Revisiting the Freshwater Imperative: An NSF-funded workshop to synthesize and prioritize key challenges in freshwater science, participant, 2023-present.
Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) – working group member: “Thermal refuges for cold-water fishes at the global scale.” 2021.
Consistency, Causes, and Consequences of Declining Size and Age of Alaskan Salmon Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) – co-PI with Eric Palkovacs, Peter Westley, Bert Lewis, Marissa Baskett, and Andrew Hendry, 2017-2018.
Environmental and Demographic Determinants of Natural Selection Working Group, NESCent, 2012-2014
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee (2008-present)
Journal Editorial Boards
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science: 2024 – present
BioScience: 2023 – present
American Naturalist: 2022 – present
Ecosphere: 2017 – 2020
PLoS ONE: 2012 – 2016
Ecology of Freshwater Fish: 2010 – 2016