DEBORAH L. ELLIOTT-FISK

Professor

Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

Chair, Graduate Groups in Ecology and Geography

University of California, Davis

One Shields Ave.

Davis, CA 95616

phone: (530)752-8559

FAX: (530)752-4154

e-mail: dlelliottfisk@ucdavis.edu

Education:

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.

Post-Doctoral Employment:

1981 - present: Assistant to Associate to Full Professor , Dept. of Geography to Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and Graduate Groups in Geography, Plant Biology, and Ecology, University of California, Davis

1991-1996: Interim Director to Director, Natural Reserve System, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Office of the President, University of California

1985-88, Research Scientist, UC White Mountain Research Station

1979 - 81: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Wyoming

1980 (summer): Visiting Assistant Professor, EPO Biology,University of Colorado, Boulder (Mountain Research Station).

Research Specializations: biogeography, ecosystem analysis and management, restoration ecology, Quaternary paleoecology, soil-vegetation relationships, conifer biology, physical geography, geomorphology , viticultural systems, coastal ecosystems, mountain and Arctic geoecology.

Courses Taught at UC Davis: field methods in wildlife, fish and conservation biology, coastal ecosystems, plant geography, research methods in geography, principles of ecology, geomorphology, biogeography, vegetation-soil-landform relationships, advanced physical geography, physical geography field methods, GIS, computer-assisted cartography, Quaternary environmental change.

Current Research:

  1. Long-term ecological succession: playa and dune ecosystems and their management and restoration implications, Mono Lake, California.
  2. Ecology and environmental history of maritime coastal forests, a comparative study of ecological disturbance and response: California and Maryland-Virginia.
  3. Evolution and ecology of Drake’s Estero Watershed and Estuary, Pt. Reyes National Seashore.
  4. Ecology, history and management of coniferous forests, Sierra Nevada and White-Inyo Range (including Giant Sequoia, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, etc.).
  5. Ecology and restoration of ripiaran ecosystems, Putah Creek watershed, Inner Coast Ranges of California.

Recent Research Grants:

Pacific Southwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (with C. I. Millar): Patterns of genetic variation within two groves of giant sequoia. $16,000 (1997-1998).

Pacific Southwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture:  - Whitebark pine ecological genetics (with C. Millar and D. Rogers). $56,000 (1995-6).

Pacific Southwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture:  - Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (with Don C. Erman). $7,100,000 (1993-96).

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Research Initiatives: - Mechanisms of development of Great Basin playa-dune ecosystems: Mono Lake, California (with C.A. Toft and J. H. Richards). $270,000 (1992-95).

National Science Foundation: - Quaternary Biogeography of the Hawaiian Island and Land Bridge Implications of the Maui Nui complex (with J.P. Price). $10,000 (1999-2001).

Selected Publications:

  1. Toft, Catherine A., and Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk. 2000. Patterns of Vegetation Along a Spatiotemporal Gradient on Shoreline Strands of a Desert Basin Lake. Plant Ecology (in press).  

  2. 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.  

  3. 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.

  4. Science Team,Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. 1996 and 1997. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress, 3 volumes plus addendum volume, executive summary, summary, data volume, and CD-ROM. University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis. 3031 pages.  

  5. Millar, Constance I., Michael Barbour, Deborah L. Elliott-Fisk, James R. Shevock, and Wallace B. Woolfenden. 1996. Significant Natural Areas. pp. 839-853, In: Science Team, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress, Volume II. Assessments and Scientific Basis for Management Options. University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis. 1,528 pp.

  6. Elliott-Fisk, D.L., Stephens, S.L., Aubert, J.E., Murphy, D., and J. Schaber. 1997. Mediated Settlement Agreement for Sequoia National Forest, Section B, Giant Sequoia Groves: An Evaluation. pp. 277-328, In: Science Team, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress, Addendum. University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis. 328 pp.

  7. Elliott-Fisk, D.L., Cahill, T.A., Davis, O.K., Duan, L., Goldman, C.R., Gruell, G.E., Harris, R., Kattlemann, R., Lacey, R., Leisz, D., Lindstrom, S., Machida, D., Rowntree, R.A., Rucks, P.,Sharkey, D.A., Stephens, S.L., and D.S. Ziegler. 1997. Lake Tahoe Case Study. pp. 217-276. In: Science Team, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final Report to Congress, Addendum. University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, Davis. 328 pp.

  8. 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.

  9. Elliott-fisk, Deborah L. 1995. Mono Lake Compromise: A Model for Conflict Resolution. California Agriculture, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 15-16.  

  10. 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.  

  11. 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.  

  12. 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.  

  13. Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. 1991. Geomorphology. pp. 27-41 In: Clarence A. Hall, Jr. ed. Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 536 pp.  

  14. Elliott-Fisk, Deborah L. and Ann. M. Petersen. 1991. Trees. pp. 87-107. In: Clarence A. Hall, Jr. ed. Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 536 pp.  

  15. 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.  

  16. 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.  

  17. 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.  

  18. 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.