Background
Lisa has a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from UCSD (2001) and a M.S. in Biology from University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2003). Her Master's research examined how salinity stress alters plant-insect interactions and consequences for leafminer performance and leaf longevity. She has been working with John Calloway and Tom Parker on the large Integrated Regional Monitoring Program (IRWM)
mapping vegetation heterogeneity across tidal wetlands in the San Francisco Bay, and she has been working on the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project.
Research Overview
Climate change and tidal wetlands. The health of pelagic systems and wetlands are ecologically linked through a variety of mechanisms, but the extent of that linkage appears to vary geographically, and is not well understood in Pacific Coast sites. Wetlands are the most vulnerable habitats in CA under a variety of climate change scenarios. With funding from CalFed, we will: 1) evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on SF Bay-Delta tidal wetlands, 2) improve our understanding of the linkage between these wetlands and the pelagic food web, especially fish populations, and 3) use this information to make predictions about potential effects of climate change on Bay-Delta fish populations. Lisa will be working on this project for her dissertation research.
Some of my field photos:
South Bay Salt Ponds
Marsh Photos
Contact information:
Lisa Schile
University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
137 Mulford Hall, #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
lschile@nature.berkeley.edu
