Cheryl's Academic and Professional History
I
did my undergraduate work in Biology and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin
College, a small liberal arts college in Maine (1991). I followed this
with Doctoral degree in Zoology at the University
of Washington (1998). While in graduate school, I focused on population
ecology and conservation biology, especially with respect to dispersal behavior
of endangered species. After graduate school, I pursued a brief project at
the University of Haifa in Israel on
the population ecology of an endangered salamander (1998). Following my work
in Israel, I came to the National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, where I have broadened my interests
to investigate aspects of landscape ecology and restoration ecology, as well
as pursue interdisciplinary aspects of conservation biology. During my postdoctoral
work at NCEAS, I took a leave-of-absence for a year to become a Visiting Assistant
Professor at UCSB's Donald Bren School
of Environmental Science and Management (2000).