Academy Fellows

ACKERLY, David (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant Ecology, Climate Change, Conservation, California Biodiversity

ALBERTS, Bruce M.
Expertise: Molecular and Conservation Biology

ALBRIGHT, Rebecca (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Coral Reef Biology

ALCALA, Angel C.
Expertise: Marine Biology and Conservation

ALEMSEGED, Zeresenay (University of Chicago)
Expertise: Anthropology and Paleoanthropology

ALMEDA, Frank (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany

ALVAREZ, Walter
Expertise: Geology

ANDERSON, Steven C. (University of the Pacific)
Expertise: Herpetology

ANDREWS, Christopher
Expertise: Aquarium Management and Parasitology

ARNOLD, E. N. (Natural History Museum, London)
Expertise: Herpetology

ARNOLD, Jeanne E. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Archaeology of California; Chumash Peoples of Channel Islands; Labor Organization and Evolution of Leadership; Craft Specialization; Theory of Political/Economic Evolution

ARP, Alissa J.
Expertise: Marine Biology

AVISE, John C.
Expertise: Genetics and Ecology

BALDWIN, Bruce (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant Evolutionary Biology, California Floristics, Biogeography, Island Biology

BARBER, Paul (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation

BARBER, Richard (Duke University)
Expertise: Oceanic primary productivity, Mercury in marine fish

BARONSKY, Anthony D.
Expertise: Paleontology

BARRETT, Reginald H. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Management

BARRON, John (U.S. Geological Survey)
Expertise: Marine diatoms, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography​​​​​​

BARTHOLOMEW, Bruce (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany

BASRI, Gibor (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Stars (formation, activity, evolution); Brown Dwarfs, Red Dwarfs, Exoplanets

BATALHA, Natalie
Expertise: Astronomy

BAUER, Aaron (Villanova University)
Expertise: Herpetology, Systematics, Biogeography, Morphology

BECKWITH, Steven V.
Expertise: Astronomy

BEISSINGER, Steven (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Conservation and Climate Change Biology

BELL, Rayna (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles

BENNETT, Shannon N. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Microbiology

BERGMAN, Robert C.
Expertise: Chemistry

BERLIN, Brent
Expertise: Anthropology

BERNARDI, Giacomo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Ichthyology, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics

BESHKOV, Vladimir A.
Expertise: Herpetology

BETTINGER, Robert (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Archeology and Anthropology

BHAYA, Devaki
Expertise: Plant Biology

BICKLER, Philip E.
Expertise: Comparative Physiology, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology

BISCHOFF, James L.
Expertise: Marine Geology

BLACK, Jeffrey (Humboldt State University)
Expertise: Ecology and Behavior (birds)

BLACKBURN, David (University of Florida)
Expertise: Evolution, Herpetology, Africa

BLACKBURN, Elizabeth H.
Expertise: Molecular Biology

BLAKE, James A.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

BLOCK, Barbara A.
Expertise: Evolutionary, Cellular and Molecular Physiology

BOGGS, Carol (University of South Carolina)
Expertise: Conservation Biology, Invasive Species, Population Biology, Ecology

BOLLENS, Stephen (Washington State University)
Expertise: Aquatic Ecology; Biological Oceanography; Invasive Species; Climate Change

BONGAERTS, Pim (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Mesophotic Corals

BOOTS, Michael (Univeristy of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Disease Ecology and Evolution

BOSTON, Penelope
Expertise: Astrobiology

BOWEN, Sarane T.
Expertise: Genetics

BOWIE, Rauri C. K.
Expertise: Orinthology

BOYER, Katharyn (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Wetland and Coastal Ecology

BRASHARES, Justin
Expertise: Ecology and Wildlife Conservation

BRAUMAN, John I.
Expertise: Chemistry

BRIGGS, Thomas S.
Expertise: Entomology

BRIGGS, Winslow R. (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Expertise: Effects of light on plant development; post-fire ecology

BRISCOE, Adriana
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

BROWN, Michael E.
Expertise: Astronomy

BROWN, Robert D. Jr.
Expertise: Geology

BRUNS, Thomas D.
Expertise: Mycology

BRUSCA, Richard (University of Arizona & Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)
Expertise: Southwestern Natural History, Sea of Cortez, Invertebrates, Sky Islands

BUDDEMEIER, Robert W.
Expertise: Plant Ecology

BURGESS, David (Boston College)
Expertise: Cell Biology

BURKE, Margaret (Meg) G. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology and Education

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CABROL, Nathalie A.
Expertise: Astrobiology

CAILLIET, Gregor (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University)
Expertise: Marine Ichthyology, Ecology, Fisheries

CALDWELL, Roy (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Marine Invertebrate Behavior (stomatopods and octopuses)

CAPONE, Douglas G.
Expertise: Biological Oceanography, Marine Microbiology

CARDÉ, Ring
Expertise: Entomology

CAREY, James (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Insect lifespan, Aging, Invasion Biology

CARLQUIST, Sherwin
Expertise: Botany

CARLSON, Sandra (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleobiology, Evolutionary Biology, Marine Metazoans

CARLSON, Stephanie (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Freshwater Fish Ecology and Evolution

CARLTON, James (Williams College)
Expertise: Marine Invasive Species, Marine Extinctions

CARPENTER, Edward (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Marine Phytoplankton, Cyanobacteria, Nitrogen Fixation

CARPENTER, James (American Museum of Natural History)
Expertise: Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Systematics

CARPENTER, Kent M.
Expertise: Marine Biology

CARR, Mark (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coastal Marine Ecology, Conservation and Fisheries

CASKEY, John
Expertise: Geology, Neotectonics

CHANNING, Alan
Expertise: Herpetology

CHIARIELLO, Nona
Expertise: Global Ecology

CHRISTIANSEN, Robert L.
Expertise: Geology

CHYBA, Christopher
Expertise: Astrobiology

CIPRIANO, Frank
Expertise: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

CLAGUE, David (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
Expertise: Submarine Geology, Volcanology

COALE, Kenneth (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Marine Biogeochemistry/Chemical cycling

COCHLAN, William (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology, Nutrient dynamics in coastal and oceanic systems

COHEN, Anne C.
Expertise: Ostracod systematics, bioluminescent signaling ostracods

COHEN, Sarah C. (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Marine, Evolutionary Ecology, Ascidians, Disease

COLLMAN, James P.
Expertise: Chemistry

COLWELL, Robert K.
Expertise: Zoology

COMINSKY, Lynn
Expertise: Cosmology

CONKEY, Margaret W.
Expertise: Anthropology

CONKLIN, Bruce (Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Human Genetics, Stem Cells, Disease

CONNOR, Edward F.
Expertise: Ecology

CONOMOS, T. J.
Expertise: Marine Geology

CORTI, Claudia (University of Florence Natural History Museum)
Expertise: Herpetology

CORY, Lawrence
Expertise: Herpetology

COSTA, Daniel (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Foraging, Physiological Ecology of marine mammals and seabirds

CROCKER, Daniel E.
Expertise: Ecology and Physiology

CROLL, Donald
Expertise: Ecology of Marine Predators, Island Ecology and Conservation

CRUIKSHANK, Dale P.
Expertise: Planetary Astronomy

DAILY, Gretchen (Stanford University)
Expertise: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Human well-being

DALY, Marymeghan
Expertise: Animal Systematics and Ecology, Cnidaria

DANIELS, Thomas F.
Expertise: Botany

DANIELS, Troy (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Dentistry and Orofacial Sciences

DAVID, Bruno
Expertise: Paleontology, Marine Biology, Evolution

DAWSON, Todd (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant ecology & physiology, Environmental change science

DePAOLO, Donald J.
Expertise: Geosciences

DeFRIES, Ruth
Expertise: Landscape Ecology

DeRISI, Joseph
Expertise: Molecular Biology, Genomics, Parasitology, Virology, Computational Biology

DES MARAIS, David
Expertise: Geology and Astrobiology

DESJARDIN, Dennis (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Mycology, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology

DESMOND-HELLMANN, Susan P.
Expertise: Oncology and Biotechnology

DIAMOND, Marian C.
Expertise: Anatomy

DICKINSON, Janis (Cornell University)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Cooperation, Citizen Science

DIETRICH, William (Bill) (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Geomorphology

DIRZO, Rodolfo (Stanford University)
Expertise: Conservation science, tropical ecology, species interactions

DOAK, Daniel
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology

DOMINGO, Carmen
Expertise: Science Education

DOWELL, Robert V.
Expertise: Entomology

DOYEN, John T.
Expertise: Entomology

DOYLE, James A.
Expertise: Botany

DOYLE, Willaim T.
Expertise: Botany

DRAKE, Frank
Expertise: Astronomy

DREWES, Robert C. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Herpetology

DUDLEY, Robert (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Biomechanics and Functional Morphology

DUGDALE, Richard
Expertise: Oceanography

DUMBACHER, John (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ornithology, Molecular evolution, Chemical defense, Genomics

DUNCAN, Thomas O.
Expertise: Botany

DUNNE, Thomas
Expertise: Botany

DURHAM, William (Stanford University)
Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Sustainability Science, Community-based Conservation, Costa Rica and Galapagos

EAKIN, David M.
Expertise: Physics

EARLE, Sylvia (National Geographic, Mission Blue, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research)
Expertise: Marine Algae, Global ocean ecosystems, Deep Sea life, Technologies for Ocean Exploration, Research, Education and Conservation.

EHRLICH, Anne H.
Expertise: Conservation Biology

EHRLICH, Paul R. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Conservation Biology

EISENHARDT, Emil R.
Expertise: Conservation

EKMAN, Paul
Expertise: Comparative Psychology

ELACHI, Charles
Expertise: Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere Science from Space

ELIAS, Damian (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Arachnid Behavior

ELIAS, Peter M.
Expertise: Medicine

ELIAS, Thomas
Expertise: Botany

EPEL, David
Expertise: Cell Biology and Developmental Biology

ERMAN, Don C.
Expertise: Fisheries Ecology

ESCHMEYER, William N.
Expertise: Ichthyology

ESPOSITO, Lauren (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Arachnology, Evolution on Islands

ESTES, James A.
Expertise: Marine Ecology

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FABER, Sandra
Expertise: Astronomy

FARRINGTON, Greg C.
Expertise: Chemistry

FELDMAN, Lewis J.
Expertise: Botany

FELDMAN, Marcus W.
Expertise: Mathematical Biology

FERRARIS, Carl J.
Expertise: Ichthyology

​FIEDLER, Peggy (University of California Natural Reserve System)
Expertise: Conservation Biology, Calochortus Ecology, Systematics

FIELD, Christopher B.
Expertise: Golbal Ecology

FILIPPENKO, Alexei
Expertise: Astronomy

FINE, Paul (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Tropical Diversity, Tree Ecology and Evolution, Plant-insect interactions

FISHER, Brian (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology

FORSBURG, Susan (University of Southern California)
Expertise: Genome Stability; Chromosomes; Yeast; DNA Replication

FOSTER, Michael S. (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Marine Ecology, Phycology, Coastal Pollution

FOX, Laurel R.
Expertise: Ecology

FRAKNOI, Andrew (Foothill College)
Expertise: Astronomy, Planetary Science, Astronomy Education, Science Education

FRANK, Laurence G.
Expertise: Mammalogy

FRITSCH, Peter W.
Expertise: Botany

FULL, Robert J.
Expertise: Zoology

FUNG, Inez
Expertise: Atmospher-Biospher Interactions

GALEHOUSE, Jon S.
Expertise: Geology

GARFIELD, Newell T.
Expertise: Physical Oceanography

GARZA, Corey (California State University, Monterey Bay)
Expertise: Marine Landscape Ecology

GARZA, John Carlos
Expertise: Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics

GAUTHIER, Jacques A. (Yale University)
Expertise: Herpetology

GAZZALEY, Adam (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Neurology and Neuroscience

GELLER, Jonathan B.
Expertise: Marine Ecology and Marine Molecular Ecology

GETZ, Wayne M.
Expertise: Entomology

GHEZ, Andrea
Expertise: Astrophysics

GHISELIN, Michael (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology

GILBERT, Gregory S.
Expertise: Microbial Ecology

GILLESPIE, Rosemary G.
Expertise: Entomology

GIRIBET, Gonzalo (Harvard University)
Expertise: Systematics, Invertebrates, Biogeography, Marine Biology, Arachnology

GLAZER, Alexander N.
Expertise: Molecular and Conservation Biology

GLICKMAN, Stephen E.
Expertise: Physchology

GOFF, Lynda J.
Expertise: Phycology

GOLDEN, David (Stanford University)
Expertise: Chemical Kinetics

GOLDMAN, Charles R.
Expertise: Zoology

GOLDMAN, Michael A.
Expertise: Medical Genetics and Chromosomal Evolution

GORDON, Deborah M. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Collective Behavior, Ant Colony Organization, Invasion Ecology

GORMAN, George C.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

GOSLINER, Terrence M. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Malacology

GRAHAM, Michael (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Kelp Forest Ecology, Sustainable Aquaculture

GREENE, Harry W.
Expertise: Herpetology

GREENE, H. Gary
Expertise: Marine Geology

GREENFIELD, David W.
Expertise: Ichthyology

GRIGGS, Gary (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coastal Geology & Oceanography; California Coast

GRISWOLD, Charles E. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology

GROSBERG, Richard K.
Expertise: Evolution and Invertebrate Biology

GROVE, Karen (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Sedimentary Geology and Tectonics

GUSTAFSSON, Claes (DNA2.0)
Expertise: Synthetic Biology, Protein Engineering, Recombinant Protein Expression

HADLY, Elizabeth
Expertise: Mammalogy, Vertebrate Evolution, Climate Change

HAFERNIK, John (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Entomology, Conservation Biology, Citizen Science, Threats to Honey Bees

HALPERN, Benjamin
Expertise: Marine Ecology

HALPERN, David
Expertise: Physical Oceanography

HARCOURT, Alexander
Expertise: Primatology

HARRISON, Susan P.
Expertise: Conservation Biology

HARROLD, Christopher
Expertise: Marine Biology, Conservation

HARTE, John
Expertise: Environmental Studies

HARVEY, James T.
Expertise: Marine Biology

HASTORF, Christine (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Andean Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany

HAUSSLER, David
Expertise: Computer Science

HAYES, Tyrone B.
Expertise: Herpetology

HEDRICK, Michael (California State University, East Bay)
Expertise: Amphibians; Cardiovascular Physiology; Respiratory Physiology; Lymphatics

HEILES, Carl E.
Expertise: Astronomy

HERMANS, Colin (Sonoma State University)
Expertise: Development and Evolution of Polychaeta, Evolution of invertebrate's eyes, Duo-gland adhesive systems, Evolution of homoplasy in meiofauna Metaphorical Biology and Epistemology

HEYNEMAN, Donald
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology, Tropical Medicine, Epidemiology and Parasitology

HICKMAN, Carole S.
Expertise: Paleontology

HICKS, James W. (University of California, Irvine)
Expertise: Cardiovascular Physiology

HILL, Tessa (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Oceanography, Climate Change, Paleoclimate, Ocean Acidification

HILLMAN, Stanley
Expertise: Environmental Physiology of Amphibians and Herpetology

HOCHBERG, Fregerick G., Jr.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

HOEHLER, Tori M.
Expertise: Astrobiology and Biochemistry

HOLDREN, John P.
Expertise: Energy and Natural Resources

HOLFORD, Mandë (Hunter College)
Expertise: Biochemistry

HOLL, Karen (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Restoration Ecology

HORMIGA, Gustavo (George Washington University)
Expertise: Systematics, taxonomy, evolution, spiders, arachnid

HOWELL, Kim M.
Expertise: Herpetology

HRDY, Sarah B.
Expertise: Anthropology

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INGLE, James C.
Expertise: Paleontology

INGRAM, Lynn (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleoclimatology, Climate History of California and the West, San Francisco Bay Sedimentary History

IRWIN, Michael E.
Expertise: Entomology

ISBELL, Lynne (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

IWAMOTO, Tomio (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ichthyology

JABLONSKI, Nina (Pennsylvania State University)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology, Human Adaptation, Primate Evolution

JACKSON, Rodney M.
Expertise: Conservation Biology

JAMES, Matthew (Sonoma State University)
Expertise: Galapagos Islands, history of California Academy of Sciences, Charles Darwin, Evolution, paleontology, Hawaiian Islands, Maritime History, Burgess Shale, History of Science

JENSEN, William A.
Expertise: Botany

JOHANSON, Donald Carl (Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology: search for human ancestors

JOHNSON, Rebecca (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Marine Science and Citizen Science

JOSSELYN, Michael (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Wetland Ecology, Wetland Restoration, Estuarine Ecology

KAVANAUGH, David (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Systematics, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Carabid Beetles, effects of Climate Change on Montane Biotas

KELLEY, James (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Oceanography of Coastal Upwelling areas, Offshore Drilling, El Nino

KIMBEL, William (Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University)
Expertise: Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Africa

KIMMERER, Wim
Expertise: Estuarine Ecology

KIRCH, Patrick (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Pacific Islands Archaeology, Island socio-ecosystems, Polynesian prehistory

KISTNER, David H.
Expertise: Entomology

KLEIN, Richard (Stanford University)
Expertise: Human Biological and Behavioral Evolution

KOCH, Paul L. L.
Expertise: Paleobiology and Geobiology

KOCIOLEK, Patrick (University of Colorado)
Expertise: Diatom Studies

KOEHL, Mimi A.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

KOENIG, Walt (Cornell University; University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology; Social Behavior; Reproductive Strategies of Trees

KOSEFF, Jeff (Stanford University)
Expertise: Environmental Fluid Mechanics

KUEPPERS, Lara (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Climate and Environmental Science

KUHI, Leonard V.L (University of California, Berkeley and University of Minnesota, Professor Emeritus)
Expertise: Star formation and early stellar evolution

KUPFERBERG, Sarah J. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Stream Food Webs and Conservation Biology

LACEY, Eileen A.
Expertise: Vertebrate social behavior and population biology

LAETSCH, Watson M.
Expertise: Botany

LAGIOS, Michael D.
Expertise: Ichthyology

LANE, Robert S.
Expertise: Entomology

LAPORTE, Leo F.
Expertise: Geology

LARSON, Ralph (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: California Marine Fish Ecology

LAWRY, James
Expertise: Anatomy, Physiology, Vertebrates, Invertebrates

LE BOEUF, Burney J.
Expertise: Biology

LEAKEY, Richard E.
Expertise: Anthropology

LEAL, Walter S.
Expertise: Chemical Ecology and Entomology

LEBUHN, Gretchen (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Ecology, Citizen Science, Pollination

LEE, Welton
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

LEIDY, Robert A. (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Expertise: Ecology (Aquatic and Community), Wetlands Science and Policy, Fisheries Biology, Native Fish Conservation, Conservation Biology

LEINEN, Margaret S.
Expertise: Oceanography, Climate Engineering

LEONARD, Janet L.
Expertise: Neurobiology and Behavior

LESTER, William A.
Expertise: Physical Chemistry

LEVITON, Alan E. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Herpetology of Asia, Biogeography, History of Geology

LEWIN, Matthew R.
Expertise: Emergency Medicine

LEWIS, Lowell N.
Expertise: Botany

LICUANAN, Wilfredo
Expertise: Coral Reef Ecology

LICHT, Paul
Expertise: Herpetology

LIDICKER, William Z. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Ecology, Mammalogy, Behavior, Conservation Biology

LIGHTFOOT, Kent G. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: North American Archaeology, Colonialism, Human-Environmental Interactions

LINDBERG, David R.
Expertise: Malacology and Inegrative Biology

LINTON, Marigold (SACNAS, University of Kansas)
Expertise: Cognitive Psychology

LIPPS, Jere H. (University of California, Berkeley) 
Expertise: Paleontology

LOARIE, Scott (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Biodiversity

LOHER, Warner J.
Expertise: Entomology

LONG, Sharon R.
Expertise: Plant and Microbial Symbiosis

LOWENSTEIN, Jerold
Expertise: Medicine

LUBCHENCO, Jane
Expertise: Marine Biology

LYON, Bruce (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Evolution, Social Behavior, Reproductive Strategies

LYONS, James M.
Expertise: Plant Physiology

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MACKEY, James P.
Expertise: Herpetology

MADDISON, David
Expertise: Entomology, Informatics, Computer Programming and Software Development

MANCINELLI, Rocco (BAER Institute)
Expertise: Microbial Ecology, Space Microbiology

MANDRA, York T.
Expertise: Paleontology

MANGEL, Marc (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Mathematical Biology, with applications to Ecology and Evolution

MARSHALL, Charles R. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleontology, deep time evolutionary biology

MATSON, Pamela (Stanford University)
Expertise: Sustainability Science, Climate Change impacts, Science Leadership

MAVERAKIS, Emanual (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Translational Immunological Research

MAX, Claire
Expertise: Astronomy, Adaptive Optics

McCLEESE, Daniel (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Expertise: Space Science

McCOSKER, John (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: White sharks, Galapagos fishes, Snake eels and Moray eels, Salmonid conservation

McCRONE, Alistair W.
Expertise: Geology

MCGANN, Mary (United States Geological Survey)
Expertise: Micropaleontology

McGUIRE, Jimmy A. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Herpetology, Phylogenetics, Biogeography, Hummingbird comparative biology

McHENRY, Henry M. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology, Plio-Pleistocene hominids, Human Evolution

MEDINA, Monica
Expertise: Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology

MENON, Gopinathan (Ashland Corporation)
Expertise: Skin Biology, Electron Microscopy, Avian epidermis, Barrier functions of skin

MERENLENDER, Adina
Expertise: Conservation Biology

MICHELI, Elisabeth
Expertise: Eco-Hydrology

MICHELI, Fiorenza
Expertise: Marine Ecology and Conservation

MILLER, Kathy Ann (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Phycology, Systematics, California seaweeds

MILTON, Katharine (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Primate Ecology, Diet and Human evolution, Phenology of tropical forest trees

MISHLER, Brent (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Bryophyte biology; Plant systematics; Phylogenetic biodiversity and Endemism studies

MOE, Richard L.
Expertise: Phycology

MONTAŃEZ, Isabel (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleoclimate and Geochemistry

MONTEVERDI, John P.
Expertise: Meteorology

MONTOYA, Joseph P. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Expertise: Biological Oceanography

MOOI, Rich (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, Echinoderms, Coral Reefs, Art in science​​​​​

MOONEY, Harold (Stanford University)
Expertise: Global Change Biology, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems of California

MOORES, Eldridge
Expertise: Geology

MORATTO, Michael J. (Courtesy Research Associate, University of Oregon, Museum of Natural and Cultural History)
Expertise: Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, California Prehistory

MORGAN, Steve
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Biological Oceanography

MORITZ, Craig C.
Expertise: Evolutionary and Sonservation Genetics

MORRISON, David D.
Expertise: Planetary Astronomy

MOSHER, Carol W.
Expertise: Chemistry

MOYLE, Peter (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Freshwater and Alien fishes of California

MULLER, Richard A.
Expertise: Astrophysics

MURPHY, Michael, A.
Expertise: Paleontology and Geology

NACHMAN, Michael W.
Expertise: Mammalogy and Evolutionary Genetics

NAGALINGUM, Nathalie (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany, Cycads

NEVINS, Donald J.
Expertise: Botany

NEWBERRY, Andrew T.
Expertise: Invertebrate Biology

NICHOLS, Frederic H.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

NIELSEN, Karina
Expertise: Marine Ecology

NIESEN, Thomas (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Population Ecology of Marine Invertebrates

NISHIGUCHI, Michele (University of California, Merced)
Expertise: Beneficial Symbiosis, Experimental Evolution & Microbial Ecology

NORRIS, Daniel H.
Expertise: Botany

NORVIG, Peter
Expertise: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science

NUR, Amos M.
Expertise: Geology

O'GRADY, Patrick M.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

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PACKARD, Richard (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Superfluid Helium

PADIAN, Kevin
Expertise: Paleontology

PAGE, Robert E., Jr.
Expertise: Entomology

PALUMBI, Stephen R.
Expertise: Molecular Evolution and Conservation Biology

PARENTI, Lynne R. (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
Expertise: Systematic Ichthyology, Comparative Biogeography, Reproductive Biology of Fishes

PARKER, Ingrid (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Plant Ecology, Invasion Biology, Conservation

PARKER, Sue Taylor
Expertise: Anthropology

PARKER, Thomas (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Plant Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology

PARNELL, Dennis R.
Expertise: Botany

PATTERSON, Robert (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Botany, Flora of California, Polemoniaceae

PATTON, James L.
Expertise: Mammalogy

PEARSE, Vicki B.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

PENDLETON, Yvonne (NASA Ames Research Center)
Expertise: Organics in the Interstellar Medium, Origin and Evolution of dust and ice in space, Primitive bodies in the Solar System

PERLMAN, David
Expertise: Journalism

PERLMUTTER, Saul
Expertise: Astrophysics

PETRINOVICH, Lewis
Expertise: Orinthology

PHILANDER, George Samuel
Expertise: Ocean-Atmospher Interactions

PIETSCH, Theodore W. (University of Washington)
Expertise: Biological Oceanography, Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology,

PILCHER, Carl B.
Expertise: Astrobiology, Astronomy, Planetary Science

PISTER, Edwin P.​​​​​
Expertise: Conservation Biology

PISTER, Karl (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Science and Technology policy; Educational policy

POGSON, Grant
Expertise: Molecular Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics

POINAR, George O., Jr.
Expertise: Entomology

POLLARD, Katherine (Gladstone Institutes & University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Bioinformatics, Statistics, Comparative Genomics, Metagenomics

PORCO, Carolyn
Expertise: Planetary Science

POTTS, Donald (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coral Reef Ecology, Geology and History

POWELL, Jerry A.
Expertise: Entomology

POWELL, Thomas M.
Expertise: Oceanography, Limnology and Aquatic Biology

POWER, Mary E.
Expertise: Ecology of Riverine Systems

PRIMARK, Joel R.
Expertise: Astronomy and Physics

PULAWSKI, Wojciech J. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: systematic of solitary wasp Sphecidae​

PURCELL, Alexander (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Entomology, Microbiology, Plant Disease Ecology

RAIMONDI, Peter R.
Expertise: Marine Ecology

RALLS, Katherine
Expertise: Conservation Biology and Mammalogy

​​​​​RAMIREZ-RUIZ, Enrico (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Astronomy and Astrophysics

RANDALL, Jan ​​​​​​
Expertise: Animal Behavior

RATHBUN, Galen (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, African Mammals, Sengis or Elephant-shrews

RAVELO, Ana Christina (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

RAVEN, Peter (Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University in St. Louis, Emeritus)
Expertise: Plant systematics and evolution, conservation, international science

RENTZ, David C. F.
Expertise: Entomology

RESH, Vincent (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Freshwater Ecology, Water-borne vectors of disease, Water pollution, San Francisco Delta

REYNOLDS, Don R.
Expertise: Botany

REYNOLDS, Wynetka A.
Expertise: Biochemistry

RICHARDS, Mark
Expertise: Geophysics

RICHERSON, Peter J. (University of California, Davis )
Expertise: Cultural Evolution, Human Ecology

RICHMOND, Rollin C.
Expertise: Evolutionary Genetics

RICK, John W.
Expertise: Archeology and Paleoecology

RICK, Torben (National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution)
Expertise: Coastal and Island Archaeology, Human-Environmental Interactions

RISCH, Neil (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Human Population Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology

ROBISON, Bruce H.
Expertise: Deep-Sea Biology

ROCHA, Luiz A. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ichthyology

RODDA, Peter U.
Expertise: Geology

RODERICK, George K.
Expertise: Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology

RODMAN, Peter
Expertise: ​​​​​​Anthropology

ROGOFF, Barbara
Expertise: Developmental Psychology

ROOPNARINE, Peter (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Invertebrate Paleontology

ROOT, Terry L.
Expertise: Climate Change Sensitivity of Vertebrates

ROTH, Barry
Expertise: Malacology and Paleontology

ROTHSCHILD, Lynn (NASA Ames Research Center)
Expertise: Evolution, Protistology, Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology

ROUGHGARDEN, Joan E.
Expertise: Herpetology

ROUTMAN, Eric J.
Expertise: Herpetology

RUIBAL, Rodolfo
Expertise: Herpetology

RUNNEGAR, Bruce
Expertise: Geology and Paleontology

RYOSUKE, Motani (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Paleobiology and Functional Paleoecology

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SAMPER, Cristián​​​​​ (Wildlife Conservation Society)​​
Expertise: Biodiversity

SAMPSON, Scott (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Vertebrate Paleontology

SAPOLSKY, Robert
Expertise: Neuroendocrinology

SARGENT, Anneila (California Institute of Technology)
Expertise: Astronomy, Astrophysics

SARUKHAN, Jose
Expertise: Botany

SCHELL, Christopher (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Urban Evolutionary Ecology, Animal Behavior; Environmental Justice

SCHWEICKART, Russell L.
Expertise: Astrobiology

SCOTCHMOOR, Judy (University of California Museum of Paleontology)
Expertise: Education and Outreach

SCOTT, Eugenie C. (National Center for Science Education)
Expertise: Evolution Education; Science Denialism; Science and Religion; Science Communication

SEARS, Karen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Evolutionary Developmental Biology

SEHGAL, Ravinder N. M.
Expertise: Avian Parasitology, Ecology of Infectious Disease

SEIBEL, Erwin
Expertise: Oceanography

SHAFFER, Bradley H.
Expertise: Herpetology

SHAFFER, Scott (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Ecology of Marine Vertebrates

SHAPIRO, Arthur M. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology, Biogeography, Speciation, Lepidoptera

SHAPLEY, Alice (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Astronomy, Astrophysics

SHELLHAMMER, Howard (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Salt marsh harvest mouse, Giant Sequoia fire ecology

SHEVOCK, Jim (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Moss diversity and Floristics

SHOSTAK, Seth (SETI Institute)
Expertise: Astronomy, Search for Extraterrestrial Life

SHUBIN, Neil H.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

SIERWALD, Petra
Expertise: Entomology

SILVER, Mary W.
Expertise: Biological Oceanography

SIMISON, Brian W. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Genomics

SIMMS, Ellen L.
Expertise: Botany

SINERVO, Barry R.
Expertise: Ecology

SKLAR, Leonard S.
Expertise: Geology

SLOAN, Doris H.
Expertise: Geology

SMITH, Alan (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Systematics and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes

SMITH, Edmund (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Behavioral response fish and invertebrates to toxic substances; Functional Morphology of Mollusca; Reproductive Physiology of fish and invertebrates

SMITH, Edward L.
Expertise: Entomology

SMITH, Thomas (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Tropical biodiversity, conservation, evolution in human altered environments, ecology of disease

SOMERO, George
Expertise: Evolutionary Biochemistry

SORK, Victoria, L.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

SOULE, Michael E.
Expertise: Evolutionary and Conservation Biology

SOUSA, Wayne P.
Expertise: Marine Ecology

SPECHT, Chelsea
Expertise: Plant Genetics and Genomics

SPERO, Howard J.
Expertise: Paleoceanography

SPICER, Gregory S.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology

STANTON, Maureen L.
Expertise: Population Biology

STEVENS, Calvin (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy and Paleontology

STILLMAN, Jonathon H.
Expertise: Invertebrate Physiology and Molecular Biology

STINE, Scott W.
Expertise: Geography

STRAUSS, Sharon (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology, Community Ecology, Plant Ecology

STROTHER, John L. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Botany, Taxonomy, Compositae

SULLIVAN, Raymond (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology

SUMNER, Dawn (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Sedimentology and Astrobiology

SWEENEY, James, R.
Expertise: Botany

TALAMANTES, Frank
Expertise: Endocrinology

TALBOT, Frank H.
Expertise: Marine Biology

TANG, Carol (Children's Creativity Museum)
Expertise: Marine Paleontology and Paleoecology, Learning in museums and aquaria, Children and Technology, Science Education

TANNER, Kimberly (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Biology Education, Neuroscience, Education Research, Science Misconceptions

TARTER, Jill C.
Expertise: Astronomy

TAUBER, Catherine A. (Cornell University & University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, and Systematics of Neuroptera, and Insect seasonal cycles

TAYLOR, Leighton R.
Expertise: Ichthyology

TAYLOR, John (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Evolution of Fungi

TENAZA, Richard R.
Expertise: Mammalogy

THOMPSON, John N.
Expertise: Ecology, Evolution

TIONOCO, Ignacio
Expertise: Chemistry

TOMLINSON, Regina
Expertise: ​​​​​​​Invertebrate Zoology

TOON, Brian (University of Colorado)
Expertise: ​​​​​​​Atmospheric Science

TRAUTWEIN, Michelle (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology

TRIPATI, Aradhna (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Geochemistry & Cliamte Change

TRENT, Jonathan (OMEGA Global Initiative/NASA)
Expertise: Sustainable water-food-energy, Marine Science, Extremophile Microbiology

TUCKER, Brian (GeoHazards International)
Expertise: Natural Disaster risk reduction in the world's most vulnerable communities

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VALE, Ronald D.
Expertise: Cell Biology, Public Science Education

VALENTINE, James (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleobiology, Biodiversity Regulation, Macroevolution

VAN VALKENBURGH, Blaire
Expertise: Vertebrate Paleontology

VELASCO, Aaron (University of Texas, El Paso)
Expertise: Geology & Geophysics

VERMEIJ, Geerat J. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolution, Paleobiology, Malacology, Plants

VITOUSEK, Peter M.
Expertise: Ecology

VRENDENBURG, Vance T.
Expertise: Evolution and Ecology

WAINWRIGHT, Peter (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolution, Ecology, and Functional Morphology of Fishes

WAKE, David B.  (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Herpetology

WAKE, Marvalee H. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Zoology

WALL, Diana H.
Expertise: Soil Biology

WALTER, Robert C.
Expertise: Geology

WARD, Peter (University of Washington)
Expertise: Nautilus biology, Deepwater reefs, Mass extinctions, Cretaceous ammonites

WARD, Philip (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Systematics and Evolution of Ants; Biogeography; Speciation

WARE, Jessica (American Museum of Natural History)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, Entomology

WASBAUER, Marius S.
Expertise: Entomology

WASHBURN, Dorothy K. (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
Expertise: Analysis of archaeological and ethnographic geometric design by plane pattern symmetries. Interpretation of patterns as cultural metaphors.

WATT, Kenneth E.
Expertise: Zoology

WATT, Ward B.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

WAYNE, Robert
Expertise: Molecular Systematics

WELCH, William (Jack)
Expertise: Expertise:

WEMMER, Chris
Expertise: Mammals, Ecology, Behavior

WETZEL, Cherie L.
Expertise: Botany

WHITE, Lisa E.
Expertise: Geology and Paleontology

WHITEMAN, Noah (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology

WILKERSON, Frances
Expertise: Biological Oceanography

WILKERSON, Mark
Expertise: Herpetology

WILL, Kipling W.
Expertise: Entomology

WILLIAMS, Gary (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Marine Biology, Invertebrate Zoology

WILLIAMS, Neal (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Ecology

WILLIAMS, R. Sanders
Expertise: Medicine, Cell Biology and Genetics

WILLIAMS, Stanley C.
Expertise: Entomology

WILLIAMS, Susan L.
Expertise: Marine Ecology

WILLIAMS, Terrie
Expertise: Comparative Physiology

WRIGHT, Dawn
Expertise: Oceanography

WUNSCH, Carl (Harvard University)
Expertise: Oceanography​​​​​

XIE, Shang-Ping (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Expertise: Climate Dynamics and Forecasting

ZACHOS, James (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Stratigraphy

ZALOM, Frank G.
Expertise: Entomology

ZARE, Richard N. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Chemistry, Physics, Physical Sciences

ZAVALA, Elena (California State University Northridge)
Expertise: Botany & Plant Science

ZAVALETA, Erika S.
Expertise: Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Conservation Biology

ZHAO, Ermi
Expertise: Herpetology

ZIHLMAN, Adrienne L.
Expertise: Anthropology

ZINENKO, Oleksandr (V.N. Karazin University in Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Expertise: Zoology

ZUCKER, Irving
Expertise: Biology

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