Louis Botsford

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Professor Emeritus

1286 Academic Surge

Research:

Two areas of current concern in the marine environment are: (1) the effects of climate change on higher trophic levels, and (2) ecosystem management with marine protected areas (MPAs). Our current work on climate change addresses how population variability and the sensitivity of population to different frequencies of variability in the environment (e.g., the frequencies of ENSOs) change with fishing. Our current work on MPAs addresses the transient responses of populations to implementation of MPAs for the purpose of analyzing monitoring data for adaptive management of MPAs. This is focused on the MPAs recently implemented along the California coast in the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA).

Academic History:

  • BS, 1967 University of California, Berkeley
  • MS, 1975 University of California, Davis
  • Ph.D., 1978, University of California, Davis

Teaching:

  • WFC 122 - Population Dynamics and Estimation. Offered every Spring quarter.
  • WFC 144 - Marine Conservation Science. Offered Fall quarter in odd numbered years.
  • WFC 222 - Advanced Population Dynamics. 

Campus Memberships:

  • Graduate Group in Ecology
  • Population Biology Graduate Group
  • Center for Population Biology
  • Marine and Coastal Science Institute.

Publications: