Position: Grad Student

Email: ewesteen@berkeley.edu

Office: 217 Hilgard Hall

Research Interests: phenotypic evolution, comparative biology, evolutionary ecology, herpetology  

For all publications please see Erin’s Google Scholar page.

Honors & Awards:

2020   NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2019   Liu Fellowship in Environmental Studies
2018   Berkeley Fellowship, UC Berkeley

Recent Publications:

Westeen EP, Martínez-Fonseca JG, Chen H, Wang IJ. Phenotypic diversity facilitates niche partitioning in a sky island assemblage of spiny lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad077

Westeen EP, Martínez-Fonseca JG, d’Orgeix CA, Walker FM, Sanchez DE, Wang IJ. Dietary niche partitioning of three Sky Island Sceloporus lizards as revealed through DNA metabarcoding. Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10461

Ramírez Castañeda¹, V, EP Westeen¹, J Frederick, S Amini, D Wait, AS Achmadi, N Andayanie, E Arida, U Arifin, MA Bérnal, E Bonaccorso, MB Sanguila, RM Brown, J Che, FP Condori, D Hartiningtias, AE Hiller, DT Iskandar, RA Jiménez, R Khelifa, R Márquez, JG Martínez-Fonseca, JL Parra, JV Peñalba, L Pinto-García, OH Razafindratsima, S Ron, S Souza, J Supriatna, RCK Bowie, C Cicero, JA McGuire, RD Tarvin. A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122667119                            

¹Co-first authors. 

Books:

Hood C, Westeen EP, Martínez-Fonseca JG. Sea Turtles to Sidewinders: A Guide to the Most Fascinating Reptiles and Amphibians of the West. Timber Press 2022: https://www.workman.com/products/sea-turtles-to-sidewinders