The Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences are a group of distinguished scientists, nominated and appointed in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the natural sciences. Fellows help us extend the Academy's positive impact on research, public engagement, and education, through individual and collaborative efforts with Academy researchers and staff.
A–B
ACKERLY, David (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant Ecology, Climate Change, Conservation, California Biodiversity
ALBERTS, Bruce M.
Expertise: Molecular and Conservation Biology
ALBRIGHT, Rebecca (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Coral Reef Biology
ALCALA, Angel C.
Expertise: Marine Biology and Conservation
ALEMSEGED, Zeresenay (University of Chicago)
Expertise: Anthropology and Paleoanthropology
ALMEDA, Frank (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany
ALVAREZ, Walter
Expertise: Geology
ANDERSON, Steven C. (University of the Pacific)
Expertise: Herpetology
ANDREWS, Christopher
Expertise: Aquarium Management and Parasitology
ARNOLD, E. N. (Natural History Museum, London)
Expertise: Herpetology
ARNOLD, Jeanne E. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Archaeology of California; Chumash Peoples of Channel Islands; Labor Organization and Evolution of Leadership; Craft Specialization; Theory of Political/Economic Evolution
ARP, Alissa J.
Expertise: Marine Biology
AVISE, John C.
Expertise: Genetics and Ecology
BALDWIN, Bruce (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant Evolutionary Biology, California Floristics, Biogeography, Island Biology
BARBER, Paul (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
BARBER, Richard (Duke University)
Expertise: Oceanic primary productivity, Mercury in marine fish
BARONSKY, Anthony D.
Expertise: Paleontology
BARRETT, Reginald H. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Management
BARRON, John (U.S. Geological Survey)
Expertise: Marine diatoms, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography
BARTHOLOMEW, Bruce (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany
BASRI, Gibor (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Stars (formation, activity, evolution); Brown Dwarfs, Red Dwarfs, Exoplanets
BATALHA, Natalie
Expertise: Astronomy
BAUER, Aaron (Villanova University)
Expertise: Herpetology, Systematics, Biogeography, Morphology
BECKWITH, Steven V.
Expertise: Astronomy
BEISSINGER, Steven (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Conservation and Climate Change Biology
BELL, Rayna (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles
BENNETT, Shannon N. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Microbiology
BERGMAN, Robert C.
Expertise: Chemistry
BERLIN, Brent
Expertise: Anthropology
BERNARDI, Giacomo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Ichthyology, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics
BESHKOV, Vladimir A.
Expertise: Herpetology
BETTINGER, Robert (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Archeology and Anthropology
BHAYA, Devaki
Expertise: Plant Biology
BICKLER, Philip E.
Expertise: Comparative Physiology, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology
BISCHOFF, James L.
Expertise: Marine Geology
BLACK, Jeffrey (Humboldt State University)
Expertise: Ecology and Behavior (birds)
BLACKBURN, David (University of Florida)
Expertise: Evolution, Herpetology, Africa
BLACKBURN, Elizabeth H.
Expertise: Molecular Biology
BLAKE, James A.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
BLOCK, Barbara A.
Expertise: Evolutionary, Cellular and Molecular Physiology
BOGGS, Carol (University of South Carolina)
Expertise: Conservation Biology, Invasive Species, Population Biology, Ecology
BOLLENS, Stephen (Washington State University)
Expertise: Aquatic Ecology; Biological Oceanography; Invasive Species; Climate Change
BONGAERTS, Pim (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Mesophotic Corals
BOOTS, Michael (Univeristy of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Disease Ecology and Evolution
BOSTON, Penelope
Expertise: Astrobiology
BOWEN, Sarane T.
Expertise: Genetics
BOWIE, Rauri C. K.
Expertise: Orinthology
BOYER, Katharyn (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Wetland and Coastal Ecology
BRASHARES, Justin
Expertise: Ecology and Wildlife Conservation
BRAUMAN, John I.
Expertise: Chemistry
BRIGGS, Thomas S.
Expertise: Entomology
BRIGGS, Winslow R. (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Expertise: Effects of light on plant development; post-fire ecology
BRISCOE, Adriana
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
BROWN, Michael E.
Expertise: Astronomy
BROWN, Robert D. Jr.
Expertise: Geology
BRUNS, Thomas D.
Expertise: Mycology
BRUSCA, Richard (University of Arizona & Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)
Expertise: Southwestern Natural History, Sea of Cortez, Invertebrates, Sky Islands
BUDDEMEIER, Robert W.
Expertise: Plant Ecology
BURGESS, David (Boston College)
Expertise: Cell Biology
BURKE, Margaret (Meg) G. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology and Education
C–E
CABROL, Nathalie A.
Expertise: Astrobiology
CAILLIET, Gregor (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University)
Expertise: Marine Ichthyology, Ecology, Fisheries
CALDWELL, Roy (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Marine Invertebrate Behavior (stomatopods and octopuses)
CAPONE, Douglas G.
Expertise: Biological Oceanography, Marine Microbiology
CARDÉ, Ring
Expertise: Entomology
CAREY, James (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Insect lifespan, Aging, Invasion Biology
CARLQUIST, Sherwin
Expertise: Botany
CARLSON, Sandra (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleobiology, Evolutionary Biology, Marine Metazoans
CARLSON, Stephanie (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Freshwater Fish Ecology and Evolution
CARLTON, James (Williams College)
Expertise: Marine Invasive Species, Marine Extinctions
CARPENTER, Edward (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Marine Phytoplankton, Cyanobacteria, Nitrogen Fixation
CARPENTER, James (American Museum of Natural History)
Expertise: Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Systematics
CARPENTER, Kent M.
Expertise: Marine Biology
CARR, Mark (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coastal Marine Ecology, Conservation and Fisheries
CASKEY, John
Expertise: Geology, Neotectonics
CHANNING, Alan
Expertise: Herpetology
CHIARIELLO, Nona
Expertise: Global Ecology
CHRISTIANSEN, Robert L.
Expertise: Geology
CHYBA, Christopher
Expertise: Astrobiology
CIPRIANO, Frank
Expertise: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
CLAGUE, David (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
Expertise: Submarine Geology, Volcanology
COALE, Kenneth (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Marine Biogeochemistry/Chemical cycling
COCHLAN, William (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology, Nutrient dynamics in coastal and oceanic systems
COHEN, Anne C.
Expertise: Ostracod systematics, bioluminescent signaling ostracods
COHEN, Sarah C. (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Marine, Evolutionary Ecology, Ascidians, Disease
COLLMAN, James P.
Expertise: Chemistry
COLWELL, Robert K.
Expertise: Zoology
COMINSKY, Lynn
Expertise: Cosmology
CONKEY, Margaret W.
Expertise: Anthropology
CONKLIN, Bruce (Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Human Genetics, Stem Cells, Disease
CONNOR, Edward F.
Expertise: Ecology
CONOMOS, T. J.
Expertise: Marine Geology
CORTI, Claudia (University of Florence Natural History Museum)
Expertise: Herpetology
CORY, Lawrence
Expertise: Herpetology
COSTA, Daniel (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Foraging, Physiological Ecology of marine mammals and seabirds
CROCKER, Daniel E.
Expertise: Ecology and Physiology
CROLL, Donald
Expertise: Ecology of Marine Predators, Island Ecology and Conservation
CRUIKSHANK, Dale P.
Expertise: Planetary Astronomy
DAILY, Gretchen (Stanford University)
Expertise: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Human well-being
DALY, Marymeghan
Expertise: Animal Systematics and Ecology, Cnidaria
DANIELS, Thomas F.
Expertise: Botany
DANIELS, Troy (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Dentistry and Orofacial Sciences
DAVID, Bruno
Expertise: Paleontology, Marine Biology, Evolution
DAWSON, Todd (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Plant ecology & physiology, Environmental change science
DePAOLO, Donald J.
Expertise: Geosciences
DeFRIES, Ruth
Expertise: Landscape Ecology
DeRISI, Joseph
Expertise: Molecular Biology, Genomics, Parasitology, Virology, Computational Biology
DES MARAIS, David
Expertise: Geology and Astrobiology
DESJARDIN, Dennis (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Mycology, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology
DESMOND-HELLMANN, Susan P.
Expertise: Oncology and Biotechnology
DIAMOND, Marian C.
Expertise: Anatomy
DICKINSON, Janis (Cornell University)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Cooperation, Citizen Science
DIETRICH, William (Bill) (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Geomorphology
DIRZO, Rodolfo (Stanford University)
Expertise: Conservation science, tropical ecology, species interactions
DOAK, Daniel
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology
DOMINGO, Carmen
Expertise: Science Education
DOWELL, Robert V.
Expertise: Entomology
DOYEN, John T.
Expertise: Entomology
DOYLE, James A.
Expertise: Botany
DOYLE, Willaim T.
Expertise: Botany
DRAKE, Frank
Expertise: Astronomy
DREWES, Robert C. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Herpetology
DUDLEY, Robert (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Biomechanics and Functional Morphology
DUGDALE, Richard
Expertise: Oceanography
DUMBACHER, John (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ornithology, Molecular evolution, Chemical defense, Genomics
DUNCAN, Thomas O.
Expertise: Botany
DUNNE, Thomas
Expertise: Botany
DURHAM, William (Stanford University)
Expertise: Environmental Anthropology, Sustainability Science, Community-based Conservation, Costa Rica and Galapagos
EAKIN, David M.
Expertise: Physics
EARLE, Sylvia (National Geographic, Mission Blue, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research)
Expertise: Marine Algae, Global ocean ecosystems, Deep Sea life, Technologies for Ocean Exploration, Research, Education and Conservation.
EHRLICH, Anne H.
Expertise: Conservation Biology
EHRLICH, Paul R. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Conservation Biology
EISENHARDT, Emil R.
Expertise: Conservation
EKMAN, Paul
Expertise: Comparative Psychology
ELACHI, Charles
Expertise: Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere Science from Space
ELIAS, Damian (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Arachnid Behavior
ELIAS, Peter M.
Expertise: Medicine
ELIAS, Thomas
Expertise: Botany
EPEL, David
Expertise: Cell Biology and Developmental Biology
ERMAN, Don C.
Expertise: Fisheries Ecology
ESCHMEYER, William N.
Expertise: Ichthyology
ESPOSITO, Lauren (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Arachnology, Evolution on Islands
ESTES, James A.
Expertise: Marine Ecology
F–H
FABER, Sandra
Expertise: Astronomy
FARRINGTON, Greg C.
Expertise: Chemistry
FELDMAN, Lewis J.
Expertise: Botany
FELDMAN, Marcus W.
Expertise: Mathematical Biology
FERRARIS, Carl J.
Expertise: Ichthyology
FIEDLER, Peggy (University of California Natural Reserve System)
Expertise: Conservation Biology, Calochortus Ecology, Systematics
FIELD, Christopher B.
Expertise: Golbal Ecology
FILIPPENKO, Alexei
Expertise: Astronomy
FINE, Paul (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Tropical Diversity, Tree Ecology and Evolution, Plant-insect interactions
FISHER, Brian (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology
FORSBURG, Susan (University of Southern California)
Expertise: Genome Stability; Chromosomes; Yeast; DNA Replication
FOSTER, Michael S. (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Marine Ecology, Phycology, Coastal Pollution
FOX, Laurel R.
Expertise: Ecology
FRAKNOI, Andrew (Foothill College)
Expertise: Astronomy, Planetary Science, Astronomy Education, Science Education
FRANK, Laurence G.
Expertise: Mammalogy
FRITSCH, Peter W.
Expertise: Botany
FULL, Robert J.
Expertise: Zoology
FUNG, Inez
Expertise: Atmospher-Biospher Interactions
GALEHOUSE, Jon S.
Expertise: Geology
GARFIELD, Newell T.
Expertise: Physical Oceanography
GARZA, Corey (California State University, Monterey Bay)
Expertise: Marine Landscape Ecology
GARZA, John Carlos
Expertise: Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics
GAUTHIER, Jacques A. (Yale University)
Expertise: Herpetology
GAZZALEY, Adam (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Neurology and Neuroscience
GELLER, Jonathan B.
Expertise: Marine Ecology and Marine Molecular Ecology
GETZ, Wayne M.
Expertise: Entomology
GHEZ, Andrea
Expertise: Astrophysics
GHISELIN, Michael (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
GILBERT, Gregory S.
Expertise: Microbial Ecology
GILLESPIE, Rosemary G.
Expertise: Entomology
GIRIBET, Gonzalo (Harvard University)
Expertise: Systematics, Invertebrates, Biogeography, Marine Biology, Arachnology
GLAZER, Alexander N.
Expertise: Molecular and Conservation Biology
GLICKMAN, Stephen E.
Expertise: Physchology
GOFF, Lynda J.
Expertise: Phycology
GOLDEN, David (Stanford University)
Expertise: Chemical Kinetics
GOLDMAN, Charles R.
Expertise: Zoology
GOLDMAN, Michael A.
Expertise: Medical Genetics and Chromosomal Evolution
GORDON, Deborah M. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Collective Behavior, Ant Colony Organization, Invasion Ecology
GORMAN, George C.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
GOSLINER, Terrence M. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Malacology
GRAHAM, Michael (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Expertise: Kelp Forest Ecology, Sustainable Aquaculture
GREENE, Harry W.
Expertise: Herpetology
GREENE, H. Gary
Expertise: Marine Geology
GREENFIELD, David W.
Expertise: Ichthyology
GRIGGS, Gary (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coastal Geology & Oceanography; California Coast
GRISWOLD, Charles E. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology
GROSBERG, Richard K.
Expertise: Evolution and Invertebrate Biology
GROVE, Karen (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Sedimentary Geology and Tectonics
GUSTAFSSON, Claes (DNA2.0)
Expertise: Synthetic Biology, Protein Engineering, Recombinant Protein Expression
HADLY, Elizabeth
Expertise: Mammalogy, Vertebrate Evolution, Climate Change
HAFERNIK, John (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Entomology, Conservation Biology, Citizen Science, Threats to Honey Bees
HALPERN, Benjamin
Expertise: Marine Ecology
HALPERN, David
Expertise: Physical Oceanography
HARCOURT, Alexander
Expertise: Primatology
HARRISON, Susan P.
Expertise: Conservation Biology
HARROLD, Christopher
Expertise: Marine Biology, Conservation
HARTE, John
Expertise: Environmental Studies
HARVEY, James T.
Expertise: Marine Biology
HASTORF, Christine (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Andean Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany
HAUSSLER, David
Expertise: Computer Science
HAYES, Tyrone B.
Expertise: Herpetology
HEDRICK, Michael (California State University, East Bay)
Expertise: Amphibians; Cardiovascular Physiology; Respiratory Physiology; Lymphatics
HEILES, Carl E.
Expertise: Astronomy
HERMANS, Colin (Sonoma State University)
Expertise: Development and Evolution of Polychaeta, Evolution of invertebrate's eyes, Duo-gland adhesive systems, Evolution of homoplasy in meiofauna Metaphorical Biology and Epistemology
HEYNEMAN, Donald
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology, Tropical Medicine, Epidemiology and Parasitology
HICKMAN, Carole S.
Expertise: Paleontology
HICKS, James W. (University of California, Irvine)
Expertise: Cardiovascular Physiology
HILL, Tessa (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Oceanography, Climate Change, Paleoclimate, Ocean Acidification
HILLMAN, Stanley
Expertise: Environmental Physiology of Amphibians and Herpetology
HOCHBERG, Fregerick G., Jr.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
HOEHLER, Tori M.
Expertise: Astrobiology and Biochemistry
HOLDREN, John P.
Expertise: Energy and Natural Resources
HOLFORD, Mandë (Hunter College)
Expertise: Biochemistry
HOLL, Karen (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Restoration Ecology
HORMIGA, Gustavo (George Washington University)
Expertise: Systematics, taxonomy, evolution, spiders, arachnid
HOWELL, Kim M.
Expertise: Herpetology
HRDY, Sarah B.
Expertise: Anthropology
I–L
INGLE, James C.
Expertise: Paleontology
INGRAM, Lynn (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleoclimatology, Climate History of California and the West, San Francisco Bay Sedimentary History
IRWIN, Michael E.
Expertise: Entomology
ISBELL, Lynne (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution
IWAMOTO, Tomio (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ichthyology
JABLONSKI, Nina (Pennsylvania State University)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology, Human Adaptation, Primate Evolution
JACKSON, Rodney M.
Expertise: Conservation Biology
JAMES, Matthew (Sonoma State University)
Expertise: Galapagos Islands, history of California Academy of Sciences, Charles Darwin, Evolution, paleontology, Hawaiian Islands, Maritime History, Burgess Shale, History of Science
JENSEN, William A.
Expertise: Botany
JOHANSON, Donald Carl (Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology: search for human ancestors
JOHNSON, Rebecca (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Marine Science and Citizen Science
JOSSELYN, Michael (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Wetland Ecology, Wetland Restoration, Estuarine Ecology
KAVANAUGH, David (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Systematics, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Carabid Beetles, effects of Climate Change on Montane Biotas
KELLEY, James (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Oceanography of Coastal Upwelling areas, Offshore Drilling, El Nino
KIMBEL, William (Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University)
Expertise: Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Africa
KIMMERER, Wim
Expertise: Estuarine Ecology
KIRCH, Patrick (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Pacific Islands Archaeology, Island socio-ecosystems, Polynesian prehistory
KISTNER, David H.
Expertise: Entomology
KLEIN, Richard (Stanford University)
Expertise: Human Biological and Behavioral Evolution
KOCH, Paul L. L.
Expertise: Paleobiology and Geobiology
KOCIOLEK, Patrick (University of Colorado)
Expertise: Diatom Studies
KOEHL, Mimi A.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
KOENIG, Walt (Cornell University; University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology; Social Behavior; Reproductive Strategies of Trees
KOSEFF, Jeff (Stanford University)
Expertise: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
KUEPPERS, Lara (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Climate and Environmental Science
KUHI, Leonard V.L (University of California, Berkeley and University of Minnesota, Professor Emeritus)
Expertise: Star formation and early stellar evolution
KUPFERBERG, Sarah J. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Stream Food Webs and Conservation Biology
LACEY, Eileen A.
Expertise: Vertebrate social behavior and population biology
LAETSCH, Watson M.
Expertise: Botany
LAGIOS, Michael D.
Expertise: Ichthyology
LANE, Robert S.
Expertise: Entomology
LAPORTE, Leo F.
Expertise: Geology
LARSON, Ralph (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: California Marine Fish Ecology
LAWRY, James
Expertise: Anatomy, Physiology, Vertebrates, Invertebrates
LE BOEUF, Burney J.
Expertise: Biology
LEAKEY, Richard E.
Expertise: Anthropology
LEAL, Walter S.
Expertise: Chemical Ecology and Entomology
LEBUHN, Gretchen (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Ecology, Citizen Science, Pollination
LEE, Welton
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
LEIDY, Robert A. (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Expertise: Ecology (Aquatic and Community), Wetlands Science and Policy, Fisheries Biology, Native Fish Conservation, Conservation Biology
LEINEN, Margaret S.
Expertise: Oceanography, Climate Engineering
LEONARD, Janet L.
Expertise: Neurobiology and Behavior
LESTER, William A.
Expertise: Physical Chemistry
LEVITON, Alan E. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Herpetology of Asia, Biogeography, History of Geology
LEWIN, Matthew R.
Expertise: Emergency Medicine
LEWIS, Lowell N.
Expertise: Botany
LICUANAN, Wilfredo
Expertise: Coral Reef Ecology
LICHT, Paul
Expertise: Herpetology
LIDICKER, William Z. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Ecology, Mammalogy, Behavior, Conservation Biology
LIGHTFOOT, Kent G. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: North American Archaeology, Colonialism, Human-Environmental Interactions
LINDBERG, David R.
Expertise: Malacology and Inegrative Biology
LINTON, Marigold (SACNAS, University of Kansas)
Expertise: Cognitive Psychology
LIPPS, Jere H. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleontology
LOARIE, Scott (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Biodiversity
LOHER, Warner J.
Expertise: Entomology
LONG, Sharon R.
Expertise: Plant and Microbial Symbiosis
LOWENSTEIN, Jerold
Expertise: Medicine
LUBCHENCO, Jane
Expertise: Marine Biology
LYON, Bruce (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Evolution, Social Behavior, Reproductive Strategies
LYONS, James M.
Expertise: Plant Physiology
M–O
MACKEY, James P.
Expertise: Herpetology
MADDISON, David
Expertise: Entomology, Informatics, Computer Programming and Software Development
MANCINELLI, Rocco (BAER Institute)
Expertise: Microbial Ecology, Space Microbiology
MANDRA, York T.
Expertise: Paleontology
MANGEL, Marc (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Mathematical Biology, with applications to Ecology and Evolution
MARSHALL, Charles R. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleontology, deep time evolutionary biology
MATSON, Pamela (Stanford University)
Expertise: Sustainability Science, Climate Change impacts, Science Leadership
MAVERAKIS, Emanual (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Translational Immunological Research
MAX, Claire
Expertise: Astronomy, Adaptive Optics
McCLEESE, Daniel (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Expertise: Space Science
McCOSKER, John (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: White sharks, Galapagos fishes, Snake eels and Moray eels, Salmonid conservation
McCRONE, Alistair W.
Expertise: Geology
MCGANN, Mary (United States Geological Survey)
Expertise: Micropaleontology
McGUIRE, Jimmy A. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Herpetology, Phylogenetics, Biogeography, Hummingbird comparative biology
McHENRY, Henry M. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleoanthropology, Plio-Pleistocene hominids, Human Evolution
MEDINA, Monica
Expertise: Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology
MENON, Gopinathan (Ashland Corporation)
Expertise: Skin Biology, Electron Microscopy, Avian epidermis, Barrier functions of skin
MERENLENDER, Adina
Expertise: Conservation Biology
MICHELI, Elisabeth
Expertise: Eco-Hydrology
MICHELI, Fiorenza
Expertise: Marine Ecology and Conservation
MILLER, Kathy Ann (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Phycology, Systematics, California seaweeds
MILTON, Katharine (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Primate Ecology, Diet and Human evolution, Phenology of tropical forest trees
MISHLER, Brent (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Bryophyte biology; Plant systematics; Phylogenetic biodiversity and Endemism studies
MOE, Richard L.
Expertise: Phycology
MONTAŃEZ, Isabel (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Paleoclimate and Geochemistry
MONTEVERDI, John P.
Expertise: Meteorology
MONTOYA, Joseph P. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Expertise: Biological Oceanography
MOOI, Rich (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, Echinoderms, Coral Reefs, Art in science
MOONEY, Harold (Stanford University)
Expertise: Global Change Biology, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems of California
MOORES, Eldridge
Expertise: Geology
MORATTO, Michael J. (Courtesy Research Associate, University of Oregon, Museum of Natural and Cultural History)
Expertise: Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management, California Prehistory
MORGAN, Steve
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, Biological Oceanography
MORITZ, Craig C.
Expertise: Evolutionary and Sonservation Genetics
MORRISON, David D.
Expertise: Planetary Astronomy
MOSHER, Carol W.
Expertise: Chemistry
MOYLE, Peter (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Freshwater and Alien fishes of California
MULLER, Richard A.
Expertise: Astrophysics
MURPHY, Michael, A.
Expertise: Paleontology and Geology
NACHMAN, Michael W.
Expertise: Mammalogy and Evolutionary Genetics
NAGALINGUM, Nathalie (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Botany, Cycads
NEVINS, Donald J.
Expertise: Botany
NEWBERRY, Andrew T.
Expertise: Invertebrate Biology
NICHOLS, Frederic H.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
NIELSEN, Karina
Expertise: Marine Ecology
NIESEN, Thomas (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Population Ecology of Marine Invertebrates
NISHIGUCHI, Michele (University of California, Merced)
Expertise: Beneficial Symbiosis, Experimental Evolution & Microbial Ecology
NORRIS, Daniel H.
Expertise: Botany
NORVIG, Peter
Expertise: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
NUR, Amos M.
Expertise: Geology
O'GRADY, Patrick M.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
P–R
PACKARD, Richard (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Superfluid Helium
PADIAN, Kevin
Expertise: Paleontology
PAGE, Robert E., Jr.
Expertise: Entomology
PALUMBI, Stephen R.
Expertise: Molecular Evolution and Conservation Biology
PARENTI, Lynne R. (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
Expertise: Systematic Ichthyology, Comparative Biogeography, Reproductive Biology of Fishes
PARKER, Ingrid (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Plant Ecology, Invasion Biology, Conservation
PARKER, Sue Taylor
Expertise: Anthropology
PARKER, Thomas (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Plant Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology
PARNELL, Dennis R.
Expertise: Botany
PATTERSON, Robert (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Botany, Flora of California, Polemoniaceae
PATTON, James L.
Expertise: Mammalogy
PEARSE, Vicki B.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
PENDLETON, Yvonne (NASA Ames Research Center)
Expertise: Organics in the Interstellar Medium, Origin and Evolution of dust and ice in space, Primitive bodies in the Solar System
PERLMAN, David
Expertise: Journalism
PERLMUTTER, Saul
Expertise: Astrophysics
PETRINOVICH, Lewis
Expertise: Orinthology
PHILANDER, George Samuel
Expertise: Ocean-Atmospher Interactions
PIETSCH, Theodore W. (University of Washington)
Expertise: Biological Oceanography, Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology,
PILCHER, Carl B.
Expertise: Astrobiology, Astronomy, Planetary Science
PISTER, Edwin P.
Expertise: Conservation Biology
PISTER, Karl (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Science and Technology policy; Educational policy
POGSON, Grant
Expertise: Molecular Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics
POINAR, George O., Jr.
Expertise: Entomology
POLLARD, Katherine (Gladstone Institutes & University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Bioinformatics, Statistics, Comparative Genomics, Metagenomics
PORCO, Carolyn
Expertise: Planetary Science
POTTS, Donald (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Coral Reef Ecology, Geology and History
POWELL, Jerry A.
Expertise: Entomology
POWELL, Thomas M.
Expertise: Oceanography, Limnology and Aquatic Biology
POWER, Mary E.
Expertise: Ecology of Riverine Systems
PRIMARK, Joel R.
Expertise: Astronomy and Physics
PULAWSKI, Wojciech J. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: systematic of solitary wasp Sphecidae
PURCELL, Alexander (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Entomology, Microbiology, Plant Disease Ecology
RAIMONDI, Peter R.
Expertise: Marine Ecology
RALLS, Katherine
Expertise: Conservation Biology and Mammalogy
RAMIREZ-RUIZ, Enrico (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Astronomy and Astrophysics
RANDALL, Jan
Expertise: Animal Behavior
RATHBUN, Galen (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Behavioral Ecology, African Mammals, Sengis or Elephant-shrews
RAVELO, Ana Christina (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
RAVEN, Peter (Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University in St. Louis, Emeritus)
Expertise: Plant systematics and evolution, conservation, international science
RENTZ, David C. F.
Expertise: Entomology
RESH, Vincent (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Freshwater Ecology, Water-borne vectors of disease, Water pollution, San Francisco Delta
REYNOLDS, Don R.
Expertise: Botany
REYNOLDS, Wynetka A.
Expertise: Biochemistry
RICHARDS, Mark
Expertise: Geophysics
RICHERSON, Peter J. (University of California, Davis )
Expertise: Cultural Evolution, Human Ecology
RICHMOND, Rollin C.
Expertise: Evolutionary Genetics
RICK, John W.
Expertise: Archeology and Paleoecology
RICK, Torben (National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution)
Expertise: Coastal and Island Archaeology, Human-Environmental Interactions
RISCH, Neil (University of California, San Francisco)
Expertise: Human Population Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology
ROBISON, Bruce H.
Expertise: Deep-Sea Biology
ROCHA, Luiz A. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Ichthyology
RODDA, Peter U.
Expertise: Geology
RODERICK, George K.
Expertise: Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
RODMAN, Peter
Expertise: Anthropology
ROGOFF, Barbara
Expertise: Developmental Psychology
ROOPNARINE, Peter (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Invertebrate Paleontology
ROOT, Terry L.
Expertise: Climate Change Sensitivity of Vertebrates
ROTH, Barry
Expertise: Malacology and Paleontology
ROTHSCHILD, Lynn (NASA Ames Research Center)
Expertise: Evolution, Protistology, Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology
ROUGHGARDEN, Joan E.
Expertise: Herpetology
ROUTMAN, Eric J.
Expertise: Herpetology
RUIBAL, Rodolfo
Expertise: Herpetology
RUNNEGAR, Bruce
Expertise: Geology and Paleontology
RYOSUKE, Motani (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Paleobiology and Functional Paleoecology
S–U
SAMPER, Cristián (Wildlife Conservation Society)
Expertise: Biodiversity
SAMPSON, Scott (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Vertebrate Paleontology
SAPOLSKY, Robert
Expertise: Neuroendocrinology
SARGENT, Anneila (California Institute of Technology)
Expertise: Astronomy, Astrophysics
SARUKHAN, Jose
Expertise: Botany
SCHELL, Christopher (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Urban Evolutionary Ecology, Animal Behavior; Environmental Justice
SCHWEICKART, Russell L.
Expertise: Astrobiology
SCOTCHMOOR, Judy (University of California Museum of Paleontology)
Expertise: Education and Outreach
SCOTT, Eugenie C. (National Center for Science Education)
Expertise: Evolution Education; Science Denialism; Science and Religion; Science Communication
SEARS, Karen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Evolutionary Developmental Biology
SEHGAL, Ravinder N. M.
Expertise: Avian Parasitology, Ecology of Infectious Disease
SEIBEL, Erwin
Expertise: Oceanography
SHAFFER, Bradley H.
Expertise: Herpetology
SHAFFER, Scott (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Ecology of Marine Vertebrates
SHAPIRO, Arthur M. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology, Biogeography, Speciation, Lepidoptera
SHAPLEY, Alice (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Astronomy, Astrophysics
SHELLHAMMER, Howard (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Salt marsh harvest mouse, Giant Sequoia fire ecology
SHEVOCK, Jim (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Moss diversity and Floristics
SHOSTAK, Seth (SETI Institute)
Expertise: Astronomy, Search for Extraterrestrial Life
SHUBIN, Neil H.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
SIERWALD, Petra
Expertise: Entomology
SILVER, Mary W.
Expertise: Biological Oceanography
SIMISON, Brian W. (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Genomics
SIMMS, Ellen L.
Expertise: Botany
SINERVO, Barry R.
Expertise: Ecology
SKLAR, Leonard S.
Expertise: Geology
SLOAN, Doris H.
Expertise: Geology
SMITH, Alan (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Systematics and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes
SMITH, Edmund (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Behavioral response fish and invertebrates to toxic substances; Functional Morphology of Mollusca; Reproductive Physiology of fish and invertebrates
SMITH, Edward L.
Expertise: Entomology
SMITH, Thomas (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Tropical biodiversity, conservation, evolution in human altered environments, ecology of disease
SOMERO, George
Expertise: Evolutionary Biochemistry
SORK, Victoria, L.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
SOULE, Michael E.
Expertise: Evolutionary and Conservation Biology
SOUSA, Wayne P.
Expertise: Marine Ecology
SPECHT, Chelsea
Expertise: Plant Genetics and Genomics
SPERO, Howard J.
Expertise: Paleoceanography
SPICER, Gregory S.
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
STANTON, Maureen L.
Expertise: Population Biology
STEVENS, Calvin (San Jose State University)
Expertise: Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy and Paleontology
STILLMAN, Jonathon H.
Expertise: Invertebrate Physiology and Molecular Biology
STINE, Scott W.
Expertise: Geography
STRAUSS, Sharon (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Ecology, Community Ecology, Plant Ecology
STROTHER, John L. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Botany, Taxonomy, Compositae
SULLIVAN, Raymond (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology
SUMNER, Dawn (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Sedimentology and Astrobiology
SWEENEY, James, R.
Expertise: Botany
TALAMANTES, Frank
Expertise: Endocrinology
TALBOT, Frank H.
Expertise: Marine Biology
TANG, Carol (Children's Creativity Museum)
Expertise: Marine Paleontology and Paleoecology, Learning in museums and aquaria, Children and Technology, Science Education
TANNER, Kimberly (San Francisco State University)
Expertise: Biology Education, Neuroscience, Education Research, Science Misconceptions
TARTER, Jill C.
Expertise: Astronomy
TAUBER, Catherine A. (Cornell University & University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, and Systematics of Neuroptera, and Insect seasonal cycles
TAYLOR, Leighton R.
Expertise: Ichthyology
TAYLOR, John (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Evolution of Fungi
TENAZA, Richard R.
Expertise: Mammalogy
THOMPSON, John N.
Expertise: Ecology, Evolution
TIONOCO, Ignacio
Expertise: Chemistry
TOMLINSON, Regina
Expertise: Invertebrate Zoology
TOON, Brian (University of Colorado)
Expertise: Atmospheric Science
TRAUTWEIN, Michelle (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Entomology
TRIPATI, Aradhna (University of California, Los Angeles)
Expertise: Geochemistry & Cliamte Change
TRENT, Jonathan (OMEGA Global Initiative/NASA)
Expertise: Sustainable water-food-energy, Marine Science, Extremophile Microbiology
TUCKER, Brian (GeoHazards International)
Expertise: Natural Disaster risk reduction in the world's most vulnerable communities
V–Z
VALE, Ronald D.
Expertise: Cell Biology, Public Science Education
VALENTINE, James (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Paleobiology, Biodiversity Regulation, Macroevolution
VAN VALKENBURGH, Blaire
Expertise: Vertebrate Paleontology
VELASCO, Aaron (University of Texas, El Paso)
Expertise: Geology & Geophysics
VERMEIJ, Geerat J. (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolution, Paleobiology, Malacology, Plants
VITOUSEK, Peter M.
Expertise: Ecology
VRENDENBURG, Vance T.
Expertise: Evolution and Ecology
WAINWRIGHT, Peter (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Evolution, Ecology, and Functional Morphology of Fishes
WAKE, David B. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Herpetology
WAKE, Marvalee H. (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Zoology
WALL, Diana H.
Expertise: Soil Biology
WALTER, Robert C.
Expertise: Geology
WARD, Peter (University of Washington)
Expertise: Nautilus biology, Deepwater reefs, Mass extinctions, Cretaceous ammonites
WARD, Philip (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Systematics and Evolution of Ants; Biogeography; Speciation
WARE, Jessica (American Museum of Natural History)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology, Entomology
WASBAUER, Marius S.
Expertise: Entomology
WASHBURN, Dorothy K. (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
Expertise: Analysis of archaeological and ethnographic geometric design by plane pattern symmetries. Interpretation of patterns as cultural metaphors.
WATT, Kenneth E.
Expertise: Zoology
WATT, Ward B.
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
WAYNE, Robert
Expertise: Molecular Systematics
WELCH, William (Jack)
Expertise: Expertise:
WEMMER, Chris
Expertise: Mammals, Ecology, Behavior
WETZEL, Cherie L.
Expertise: Botany
WHITE, Lisa E.
Expertise: Geology and Paleontology
WHITEMAN, Noah (University of California, Berkeley)
Expertise: Evolutionary Biology
WILKERSON, Frances
Expertise: Biological Oceanography
WILKERSON, Mark
Expertise: Herpetology
WILL, Kipling W.
Expertise: Entomology
WILLIAMS, Gary (California Academy of Sciences)
Expertise: Marine Biology, Invertebrate Zoology
WILLIAMS, Neal (University of California, Davis)
Expertise: Ecology
WILLIAMS, R. Sanders
Expertise: Medicine, Cell Biology and Genetics
WILLIAMS, Stanley C.
Expertise: Entomology
WILLIAMS, Susan L.
Expertise: Marine Ecology
WILLIAMS, Terrie
Expertise: Comparative Physiology
WRIGHT, Dawn
Expertise: Oceanography
WUNSCH, Carl (Harvard University)
Expertise: Oceanography
XIE, Shang-Ping (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Expertise: Climate Dynamics and Forecasting
ZACHOS, James (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Expertise: Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Stratigraphy
ZALOM, Frank G.
Expertise: Entomology
ZARE, Richard N. (Stanford University)
Expertise: Chemistry, Physics, Physical Sciences
ZAVALA, Elena (California State University Northridge)
Expertise: Botany & Plant Science
ZAVALETA, Erika S.
Expertise: Community and Ecosystem Ecology, Conservation Biology
ZHAO, Ermi
Expertise: Herpetology
ZIHLMAN, Adrienne L.
Expertise: Anthropology
ZINENKO, Oleksandr (V.N. Karazin University in Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Expertise: Zoology
ZUCKER, Irving
Expertise: Biology
The California Academy of Sciences' period for nominating new Fellows, Medalists and Distinguished Service Awardees is currently open and will end February 24, 2023. We seek distinguished scientists active in cutting-edge research and science communication to join our Academy Fellows. For all questions related to Fellows nominations or submissions, please contact the Academy Fellows Office at fellows@calacademy.org.
The Academy and its Board of Trustees confirmed a new Code of Conduct for all Fellows on January 31, 2020. Click the link below for more detailed expectations for Fellows as well as a reporting and review process for potential violations.