EDUCATION 

Ph.D., Ecology, Conservation Ecology Emphasis Area. University of California, Davis. September 2000. Dissertation: Spatial Patterns of California Amphibian Declines and Ecological Limits. Advisor: H. Bradley Shaffer.

Masters degree, Economics. University of California at Berkeley. 1990.

Bachelors degree, Economics. University of California at Berkeley. 1982.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. STAR grant. Airborne pesticides and disease outbreaks in Sierra Nevada frogs. Roland Knapp co-PI. $215,000. 2003-2004.

Summer research grant. California State University, Sacramento. $4,000. 2002.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Historic pesticide use and California amphibian declines. Research grant. $29,000. 2001-2002.

Faculty development grant. California State University, Sacramento. To study and develop course materials on environmental justice and the distribution of hazardous waste facilities by neighborhood race and income in Sacramento County. 2001.

Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force of The World Conservation Union (IUCN)/Species Survival Commission. Seed grant. $1,700. 2000-2001.

Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force. Special seed grant for climate change research. $4,500. 1998-2000

University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, Graduate Fellowship, $38,000. 1998-2000.

Historic pesticide use and California amphibian declines. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Indianapolis IN. 2001

California amphibian declines, agricultural land use and predominant winds. Presentation at the annual meetings of Western Section of the Wildlife Society. Sacramento, CA 2001.

California amphibian declines: tests of the habitat, UV-B, climate and pesticides hypothesis. Invited talk, annual meetings of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. La Paz, Mexico. 2000.

California red-legged frog declines associated with elevation and upwind agriculture. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Spokane, WA. 1999.

California red-legged frog declines associated with elevation and upwind agriculture. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology. College Park, MD. 1999.

Spatial analysis of the decline of the California red-legged frog. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Western Society of Naturalist. San Diego, CA. 1998.