NRS graduate research flyer This web page is designed to help potential Chilean graduate students who
- want to apply to the University of California;
- are interested in conducting research at one or more UC Natural Reserves; and
- plan to apply for a Masters or Ph.D. student fellowship through the CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Investigatión Científica y Tecnológica) program.
All Chilean graduate students who have been accepted into the University of California and meet the other criteria set by CONICYT are eligible for this fellowship. The process involves three steps:
- finding a University of California faculty member to serve as your graduate student advisor
- applying to the University of California
- applying for the CONICYT fellowship
Finding a faculty advisor If you’re interested in doing research at the Natural Reserve System reserves, it’s easiest to start by identifying a potential faculty advisor who actively conducts research at NRS sites.Below is a list of UC faculty who have worked at NRS sites over the past three years, organized by campus:
We encourage you to learn more about these faculty members by visiting their websites, and to contact those you might consider as a graduate advisor.Applying to the University of CaliforniaOnce you have identified a UC faculty member willing to sponsor you as a graduate student, you must apply for acceptance into the University of California.Learn more about graduate admissions at the University of California here: http://graduate.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/Applying for the CONICYT fellowship Once you have been accepted into a University of California graduate program, you are eligible to apply for the CONICYT fellowship.
| UC Berkeley | UC Davis | UC Los Angeles | UC Merced | UC Irvine | UC Riverside | UC San Diego | UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Cruz |
| UC Berkeley | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Ronald Amundson | Pedology isotope biogeochemistry, impact of climate and life on earth processes, soils in biogeochemical cycles, human impacts on soils and ecosystems | Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
| Doris Bachtrog | Evolutionary significance of sex and recombination, the mode and tempo of genome evolution, the genomics of speciation, and the evolution of epigenetic modifications | Integrative Biology |
| John Battles | Forest ecology and ecosystem dynamics | Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
| Todd Dawson | Physiological plant ecology, stable isotope biogeochemistry | Integrative Biology |
| Damian Elias | Behavioral ecology, mechanisms of behavior, acoustic communications | Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
| Paul Fine | Origin and maintenance of Amazonian rain forest tree diversity | Integrative Biology |
| Eileen Lacey | Evolution of behavioral diversity among vertebrates, ecological causes of sociality, genetic consequences of sociality | Integrative Biology |
| Michael Manga | Physical volcanology, geodynamics, hydrogeology, and geomorphology | Earth and Planetary Science |
| Mary Power | Freshwater ecology, food webs | Integrative Biology |
| Rudolf Schmid | Flora of mediteranean regions, morphology of land plants, history of botany | Integrative Biology |
| Ellen Simms | Evolutionary implications of ecological interactions between plants and other organisms | Integrative Biology |
| William Stewart | Watershed management, forest management, resource economics | Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
| Jonathon Stillman | Drivers of physiological diversity in relation to changes in the marine environment | Integrative Biology |
| Sally Thompson | Surface hydrology | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Kipling Will | Carabid beetles, insect systematics | Environmental Science, Policy and Management |
| UC Davis | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Alison Berry | Biological nitrogen fixation; root and rhizosphere plant-microbe associations, and applications in agroecology; soil microbial ecology; microbial genomics; tree root architecture; plant nutrition and ecophysiology; microbial deconstruction of cellulosic biomass and microbial biofuels | Plant Sciences |
| Ernest Chang | Mechanisms of development and the physiological ecology of marine and other invertebrates, especially those mechanisms involving hormonal and pheromonal cues | Bodega Marine Laboratory |
| Holly Ernest | Interdisciplinary applied and basic research in genetics, genomics, biology, and disease ecology for wildlife conservation and population health | Veterinary Medicine |
| Ian Faloona | Atmospheric photochemistry, marine biogeochemistry, and the turbulent dynamics of planetary boundary layers | Land, Air, and Water Resources |
| Edwin Grosholz | Ecology, conservation and restoration of marine and estuarine systems | Environmental Science and Policy |
| Susan Harrison | Plant ecology, patterns of diversity, conservation | Environmental Science and Policy |
| Tessa Hill | Geochemistry of microfossils and corals to determine rates and magnitude of climate change and forcing mechanisms behind recent (Quaternary) climate change | Geology |
| Douglas Kelt | Ecology and biogeography of mammals, especially small mammals. Emphasis on California and Chile. | Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology |
| Brian Moore | Phylogenetics | Evolution and Ecology |
| Steven Morgan | Marine ecology, evolution & behavior, biological oceanography, conservation biology, invertebrates, fishes, and plankton | Bodega Marine Laboratory |
| Malcolm North | Stand dynamics, disturbance regimes, and ecosystem processes of western coniferous forests | Plant Sciences |
| Jay Rosenheim | Insect ecology and biological control | Entomology |
| Eric Sanford | Climate change, biogeography, and local adaptation | Evolution and Ecology |
| Karen Shapiro | Zoonotic pathogens: epidemiology, transmission, and detection | Veterinary Medicine |
| Youngsuk Suh | Photography | Art Studio |
| John Wingfield | Neurobiology, physiology and behavior | Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior |
| Louie Yang | Behavioral, population, community and ecosystem ecology | Entomology |
| UC Irvine | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Timothy Bradley | Physiology, ecology, cell biology and pathology of insects | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Kailen Moone | Community ecology, evolutionary ecology, plant-insect interactions | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| UC Los Angeles | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Priyanga Amarasekare | Mechanisms that maintain biological diversity in variable environments | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Jeanne Arnold | Archaeological anthropology | Anthropology |
| Peter Nonacs | intersection of evolutionary and behavioral ecology, skew, parental investment, biocontrol of invasive species | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Philip Rundel | Adaptations of plants to environmental stress, mediterranean, desert, and tropical ecosystems; environmental sensor arrays for ecological research | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| H. Bradley Shaffer | Phylogenetics, population dynamics, amphibians and reptiles | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Thomas Smith | Evolutionary ecology, speciation, and conservation of vertebrates, especially in the tropics | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Victoria Sork | Using genomic tools and population genetic markers to understand adaptation, population structure and gene flow in plant populations | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| UC Merced | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Roger Bales | Mountain hydrology | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Michael Beman | Marine/aquatic biology, microbial ecology, and biogeochemistry | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Benoit Dayrat | Ecology | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Martha Conklin | Biogeochemistry, groundwater, K-12 environmental education | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Carolin Frank | Genome evolution in prokaryotes and yeast | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Qinghua Guo | Remote sensing, geocomputation, landscape ecology | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Steve Hart | Terrestrial ecosystems | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Kathleen Hull | Anthropological archaeology | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Lara Kueppers | Climate-ecosystem feedbacks, regional climate change, land-use change | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| Anthony Westerling | Climate-wildfire connections ,environmental policy | Sierra Nevada Research Institute |
| UC Riverside | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Edith Allen | Restoration ecology | Botany and Plant Sciences |
| James Baldwin | Nematode evolution | Nematology |
| Paul De Ley | Ecology, phylogeny, and taxonomy of nematodes | Nematology |
| Kimberly Hammond | Animal physiological ecology and evolutionary physiology; how anatomical and physiological capacities meet environmental demands | Biology |
| Tim Higham | Biomechanics | Biology |
| Michael Rust | Urban entomology, pest biology | Entomology |
| UC San Diego | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Elsa Cleland | Global environmental changes and their impacts on community ecology and ecosystem ecology | Ecology, Behavior and Evolution |
| Paul Dayton | benthic ecology, marine conservation and policy, evolution and natural history, general ecology | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| David Holway | Biological invasions | Division of Biological Sciences |
| Carolyn Kurle | Foraging ecology, isotope biogeochemistry, conservation | Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution |
| Lisa Levin | Larval dispersal and population connectivity; ecology of deep-sea reducing environments and soft-sediment habitats wetlands restoration; species invasions | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| James Nieh | Evolution of foraging communication behavior in social bees, honeybee health | Biological Sciences |
| Kaustuv Roy | Spatial gradients in biodiversity, biotic effects of climate change | Ecology, Behavior and Evolution |
| Jonathan Shurin | Connections between population, community, and ecosystem ecology in aquatic environments | Ecology, Behavior and Evolution |
| UC Santa Barbara | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Peter Alagona | Environmental history, history of land use and natural resource management | History and Environmental Studies |
| Bodo Bookhagen | Quaternary climate change, geomorphic processes, landscape evolution, tectonic processes | Geography Department |
| Cherie Briggs | Theoretical ecology, disease ecology, population dynamics, systems biology, sudden oak death, chytrid fungus, parasitoid coexistence | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Carla d’Antonio | Plant and ecosystem ecology, invasive species, species effects on ecosystem processes, restoration ecology | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Frank Davis | Application of conservation science and geographical analysis to land use planning and conservation of wild species | Bren School of Environmental Science and Management |
| Lynn Gamble | Sociopolitical complexity among hunter-gatherer societies in southern California, especially the Chumash | Anthropology |
| Scott Hodges | Plant evolutionary biology, molecular approaches to population biology, ecological genetics, systematics | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Sally Holbrook | Community ecology; marine vertebrate predation and competition | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Patricia Holden | Environmental microbiology; coastal water qualitiy in urban environments; interactions of soil, water, nutrients on deep-soil bacterial processes | Bren School of Environmental Science and Management |
| Jonathan Levine | Factors controlling exotic plant invasions, species diversity and ecosystem function, determinants of commonness, rarity, coexistence | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Philip Lubin | Experimental cosmology, early universe studies, high altitude balloon-borne astrophysics | Physics |
| John Melack | Ecological processes in lakes, wetlands, and streams | Bren School of Environmental Science and Management |
| William Rice | Genetic basis of evolution; speciation, adaptive significance of sexual recombination, intersexual antagonistic coevolution, sex chromosomes | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Josh Schimel | Soil ecology; microbial controls of ecosystem processes; terrestrial biogeochemistry | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology |
| Alexander Simms | Coastal sediments, Holocene sea levels, stratigraphy | Earth Science |
| UC Santa Cruz | ||
| Faculty | Research Interests | Department |
| Daniel Costa | Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Don Croll | Marine ecology, marine conservation biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Noah Finnegan | Geomorphology, active tectonics | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Laurel Fox | Population and community ecology, plant-herbivore interactions | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Melissa Gwyn | Painting, drawing, growth and collapse through naturalistic and abstract organic imagery | Art |
| Karen Holl | Factors limiting recovery of ecosystems from human-induced disturbance, restoration strategies | Environmental Studies |
| Bruce Lyon | Ecological and evolutionary basis of reproductive strategies and social behavior in animals, reproductive parasitism, parental care, mating systems | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Ingrid Parker | Plant ecology, biology of species invasions, plant distribution and abundance, plant-insect mutualisms, plant-pathogen interactions | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Jarmila Pittermann | Plant physiology, adaptive strategies underlying physiological and morphological diversity, effects of climate change on California flora | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Barry Sinervo | Behavioral ecology, natural and sexual selection on reproduction, behavior, reptilian communities, speciation | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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