Sierra Nevada Field Campus: Faculty
Elwood (Woody) Brooks is Emeritus Professor of Geology at California State University, East Bay, and currently is a Research Associate in the Geology Department ...
Jerry Davis, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, SF State, is director of the California State University GIS Specialty Center. He specializes in geomorphology, soils, field ...
John Hafernik, Chair/Professor of the Biology Dept, SF State. John's research focuses on 1) the evolutionary and ecological processes at the population or species ...
Nancy Harnach maintains an extensive herbarium, owns Great Basin Botanicals, specializing in plants of the Sierra, and co-authored essays in the CNPS publication California's ...
David Lukas, B.A. (Biology), leads tours for The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and Elderhostel and has worked on research projects throughout the Western U.S., ...
Paul A. Opler is an internationally-known entomologist and conservationist. He has authored more than 150 articles and six books including the Peterson Field Guide ...
Robert Patterson's primary botanical interests have been the systematic relationships among species within genera, specifically focusing on genera of Polemoniaceae and Hydrophyllaceae (i.e., the ...
Sarah Rabkin received a B.A. in Biology from Harvard University and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz, where she teaches ...
Dave Shuford is a full-time ornithologist with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and combines an avid interest in natural history with his enthusiasm for ...
Martin Sirk's research interests are Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Rotating Stars, Variable Stars, Minor planets (Asteroids), and the history of ...
Jim Steele has been the Director and an instructor at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus since 1985. His enthusiasm for natural history and ecology ...
Michael Vasey is an Assistant Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. He is a trained botanist and conservation biologist with over ten ...
