I am a Research Biologist at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara. My research is focused on marine ecology, however I have wide range of related interests in other topics ranging from network theory to science education. Follow the links to research and collaborations to find out more about my current projects. Feel free to download pdf versions of my publications.

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I am also the Director of the Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserves (VESR). VESR consists of two separate reserves, Valentine Camp and the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL), located approximately eight miles apart. They are situated in Mono County on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, near the Town of Mammoth Lakes, CA. VESR became part of the University of California Natural Reserve System (UCNRS) in 1973 and is administered through the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). VESR provides protected wildlands, on-site experimental facilities, as well as the support facilities for conducting studies of natural systems over a large part of central, eastern California and western Nevada.

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