Gregory S. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Director NSF GK-12 SCWIBLES Graduate Training Program
Director UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot
Senior Research Associate Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Applied evolutionary ecology
Plant-fungus interactions
Inquiry-based science education
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You are welcome to check out my Sabbatical Blog from 2015-2016
Current Graduate Students and Postdocs
Ph.D. candidate
Joshua tree-symbiont relationships in the face of climate change
Ph.D. student
Citizen science and long-term ecological monitoring
Ph.D. student
Invasive pests and pathogens of trees
Gilbert lab alumni
Ph.D. 2016 Environmental Studies
Fungal ecology and ecosystem-based management of special forest products
Plant Pathology Postdoctoral Fellow in Miles lab at CSU Monterey Bay.
Ph.D. 2016 Environmental Studies
co-advised by Berry Brosi (Emery University)
Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: Linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.
Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard University
Jennie Liss Ohayon
Ph.D. 2015 Environmental Studies
New battlegrounds over science, risk, and environmental justice: factors influencing the cleanup of military Superfund sites
Postdoctoral Researcher, Silent Spring Institute
Ph.D. 2015 Environmental Studies
(Honorary Gilbert lab member, Daniel Press lab)
Old Saws and New Laws: Regulatory Failure and Ownership Transformation in the North Coast Redwood Timber Industry
Science Policy Fellow, California State Legislature
Postdoctoral researcher 2015
Department of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
Ph.D. 2012 Environmental Studies
co-advised by Karen Holl
Community interactions in tropical forest restoration and environmental governance in the Panama canal watershed
Postdoctoral Fellow, LASTROP, Brazil
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Ph.D. 2008 Environmental Studies
Maintaining the drivers of tropical plant diversity: plant disease in conservation practice
Assistant professor, Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research (IIES), National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Ph.D. 2008 Environmental Studies
co-advised by Daniel Doak
Contested landscapes: using scientific information and collaborative processes to support ecological restoration
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Ph.D. 2008 Environmental Studies
Honorary Gilbert lab member - (Karen Holl lab)
Forest recovery and management options in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico
Investigador Titular "A", Red de Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, INECOL, Mexico
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Post-doctoral researcher 1997-99
Evolutionary ecology of mangrove fungi
Extension Forest Pathologist, UC Berkeley
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Masters of Engineering, 2000 Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá
Diversity of mangrove fungi
Researcher, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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