Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation BiologyDeborah L. Elliott-Fisk:
Professor
dlelliottfisk@ucdavis.edu
Office: Academic Surge 1286
Lab: Academic Surge 1324, Biogeography Laboratory
Phone: 530-752-8559
Research Interest:
Biogeography, Physical Geography, Habitat Restoration and Conservation, Quaternary Environmental Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Arctic and alpine ecology, vegetation ecology.
Academic History:
Ph.D., 1979, Geography (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research), University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A. (honors), 1975, Geography Major, Double Biology Minor, California State University, Fullerton.
Employment History:
1981-present: Assistant to Associate to (Full) Professor; July 2007 change over to Senior Lecturer SOE, UC Davis
[Chair, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, 1997-2002; Chair, Graduate Group in Geography, 2000-2005]
1991-1996: Director, University of California Natural Reserve System, UC Office of the President
1985-88, Research Scientist, UC White Mountain Research Station
1979-1981: Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
Employment History:
Ecology, Geography, Community Development Current Courses: WFC 10, WFC 155, WFC 156, WFC 157, GEO 200B, GEO 200D, GEO 210.
Selected Publications:
Price, Jon P., and Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk. 2004. Topographic History of the Maui Nui Complex, Hawai'i, and Its Implications for Biogeography. Pacific Science, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 27-54.
Toft, Catherine A., and Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk. 2002. Patterns of Vegetation Along a Spatiotemporal Gradient on Shoreline Strands of a Desert Basin Lake. Plant Ecology, vol., pp. 21-39.
Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. 2000. The Taiga and Boreal Forest. In: Michael G. Barbour and William Dwight Billings, eds., North American Terrestrial Vegetation, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-74.
Stephens, Scott L., and Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk. 1999. Sequoiadendron giganteum - Mixed Conifer Forest Structure in 1900-91 from the Southern Sierra Nevada, CA. Madrono, Vol. 45, NO. 3, pp. 221-230.
Elliott-Fisk, D.L. and D.C. Erman (co-PIs) plus Science Team Members. 1997.
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress plus Addendum (4 volumes). University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis. 328 pp.
Bach, A.J., and D. L. Elliott-Fisk. 1996. Soil Development on Late Pleistocene Moraines at Pine Creek, East-Central Sierra Nevada, California. Physical Geography , Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-28.
Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. 1993. Viticultural Soils of California, with Special Reference to the Napa Valley. Journal of Wine Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 67-77.
Swanson, Terry W., Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L., and Randal J. Southard. 1993. Soil Development Parameters in the Absence of a Chronosequence in a Glaciated Basin of the White Mountains, California-Nevada. Quaternary Research, Vol. 39, pp. 186-200.
Jennings, Steven A., and Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk. 1993. Packrat Midden Evidence of Late Quaternary Vegetation Change in the White Mountains, California-Nevada. Quaternary Research, Vol 39, pp. 214-221.
Noble, A.C. and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 1990. Evaluation of the Effects of Soil and Other Geographical Parameters on Wine Composition and Flavor: Napa Valley , California. pp. 37-45. Actualities Oenologiques 89, 4 Symposium International d'Oenologie. Paris: Dunod. 567 pp.
Bale, A., G. T. Orlob, and D. L. Elliott-Fisk. 1988. Paleoecological Modeling of Hydrologic Processes. pp. 29-42 In: Mariani, A. (ed.). Advances in Environmental Modelling, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. 1987. Glacial Geomorphology of the White Mountains, California and Nevada: Establishment of a Glacial Chronology. Physical Geography, Vol. 8, No.4, pp. 299-323.
Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. 1983. The Stability of the Northern Canadian Tree Limit. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 560-576. Washington: Association of American Geographers.