Current Postdocs and Students
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Sabine Cudney-Valenzuela
Sabine is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley. Her research is guided by the intention to understand the cascading effects of land-use change on biodiversity and ecological processes, and to find solutions to mitigate these pressures. Her research integrates multiple areas of ecology (e.g., landscape ecology, community ecology, functional ecology) and takes place in anthropogenic landscapes of Mexico, Colombia, and Madagascar. With a particular love for tree heights and spying on wildlife, Sabine’s methods frequently involve arboreal camera trapping and other conservation technologies.
You can find her publications here. Research interests: Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Community Ecology, Canopy Ecology |
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Matt McGeeMatt is a PhD student in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. Matt finds way many things interesting, but he's primarily concentrating on how interspecific interactions influence species distributions and how climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances will shift community dynamics. Matt earned his MS from California State University, Monterey Bay, where he studied the drivers of carnivore occupancy and songbird richness along an urbanization gradient in the Salinas Valley. He has also studied endangered songbird populations in Texas and the Everglades, the impacts of warming temperatures on dung beetle breeding biology and bird physiology at the University of Tennessee, and the role of habitat corridors on seed dispersal at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Matt is originally from North Carolina, and while he misses sweet tea very badly, he is excited to live in the Bay Area for the first time! Outside of research, Matt enjoys baking, sports. live music, and many creative hobbies.
Research interests: community dynamics, influences of species distributions, tropical ecology, predictive ecology and modeling"
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Hannah Hilden-ReidHannah is a PHD student in the Integrative Biology department. She was awarded her MS in Anthropology from Portland State University, having dedicated her thesis work to examining Varecia rubra (red ruffed lemur) diel activity. She received her BA degrees in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Hannah has worked as a primate research assistant, laboratory technician, and emergency veterinary technician since completing her undergraduate degrees.
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Ian Y ChanIan is an undergraduate student in the Integrative Biology Department at UC Berkeley. He is interested in factors influencing lemur foraging and works with Sabine to understand how biodiversity ranges across different stages of forest regeneration. Ian has previously studied the effects of land-use changes on the distribution of periodical cicada populations. Currently, he works in the VLSB Pollinator Garden, where he restores native plants and studies pollinator-plant interactions.
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Interested in joining the lab? More info here.