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
Sponsors: Marc Mangel and Athanasios Kottas
Jan. 2007- June 2008
University of Oslo, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
Sponsors: Nils Christian Stenseth and Asbjørn Vøllestad
Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellow
May-Sept. 2006
University of Washington
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Advisor: Tom Quinn
Ph.D. received December 2006
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Advisors: Ben Letcher and Andrew Hendry
M.S. received September 2002
University of California, Davis
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
Mentor: Peter Moyle
B.S. received June 1999
Awards and Fellowships
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)
2005, Faculty Merit Award, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, UW (awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral student)
Professional Activities
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
Ecosphere: 2017-present.
PLoS ONE: 2012 – 2016
Ecology of Freshwater Fish: 2010 – 2016