Curriculum vitae susan j. Mazer

CURRICULUM VITAE

SUSAN J. MAZER Professor of Ecology and Evolution Field Director, the California Phenology Project Western U.S. Field Coordinator, Project Baseline Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Telephone: [phone] FAX: [phone] e-mail: [e-mail] http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/mazer/

BIRTHDATE: November 20, 1958; New York, NY
EDUCATION:
1981; B.S. Biology (with honors); Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut

1983; M.S. Botany; University of California, Davis

1986; Ph.D. Botany; University of California, Davis
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: Spanish, French
EMPLOYMENT:
2011 – present. Western U.S. Field Coordinator, Project Baseline: a national seed bank for evolutionary research
2008 – present. Field Director, California Phenology Project
January 2004 - December 2005. Program Director, Population and Community Ecology Program, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.
July 1999 – present. Full Professor of Ecology and Evolution; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
July 1993 – June 1999. Associate Professor; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
July 1988 - June 1993. Assistant Professor; Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.
February 1991 - May 1993 and July 1988 - September 1989. Research Collaborator; Departments of Botany and Paleobiology, respectively; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
January 1987 - June 1988. Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellow; Department of Paleobiology; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The process and outcome of evolution in stressful environments, particularly the strength and direction of natural selection on physiological, life history, floral, and mating system traits in wild plant populations. Is the direction of natural selection on these traits within taxa consistent with the patterns of divergence between taxa?
Causes and consequences of phenological variation in wild plants. By conducting long-term monitoring of the life cycle transitions of individual plants and plant populations across environmental gradients in California, we are examining how wild species respond to climate in ways that may affect their reproductive success and long-term survival. Do species in a Mediterranean climate respond to inter-annual changes in climate similarly to those adapted to other biogeographic regions?
The application of quantitative genetic approaches to the study of genetic vs. environmental variation and covariation in fitness-related traits, including seed mass, gender, floral development, life-history traits, and phenotypic plasticity in plants and animals. What are the relative influences of genetic vs. environmental variation on the expression of fitness-related traits in wild species? Do genetic correlations among ecologically functional and reproductive traits influence their independent evolution?
Comparative ecological and evolutionary analyses of hundreds of species in order to detect the role of natural selection in molding life history and reproductive traits in tropical and in temperate forests. Can the long-term effects of ecological sorting and evolutionary adaptation be detected in the comparative analysis of the joint distribution of plant traits and habitat preferences?
Restoration ecology in the context of local adaptation. How does the process of local adaptation among populations of species occupying heterogeneous environments affect the planning of restoration efforts that rely on wild-collected seeds?
COURSES TAUGHT:
Pollination Ecology in Khao Nan National Park (a graduate course funded by Thailand’s Biodiversity Research & Training program)

Rainforest Ecology (visiting instructor for Organization of Tropical Biology graduate course in Costa Rica)

Rainforest Biodiversity (co-instructor for 3-week course at the Tambopata Wildlife Reserve, Peru, sponsored by the Smithsonian Instititution)

General Biology (Plant Diversity Section): EEMB 3C

Plant Biology & Biodiversity: EEMB 127

Plant Biology & Biodiversity: field, morphology, and anatomy lab: EEMB 127L

Advanced Plant Evolutionary Ecology: EEMB 112

Plant Evolutionary Ecology Field and Computer Lab: EEMB 112L

Population Genetics: EEMB 130

Evolutionary Ecology: EEMB 135

Conservation and Restoration Ecology: EEMB 133

Plant Reproductive Ecology and Evolution: EEMB 194M

Reproductive Ecology and Evolution Graduate Seminar: EEMB 595M

Plant Ecology Graduate Seminar: EEMB 595A

Evolutionary Ecology Graduate Seminar: EEMB 595EV

Special Graduate Seminars
Quantitative Evolutionary Genetics

The Evolutionary Theory of Sex Allocation

The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology

Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

Phenotypic Plasticity
FELLOWSHIPS:
1991. UC Regents Faculty Career Development Award

1990. UC Regents Faculty Career Development Award

1989. UC Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship

1987 - 1988. Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship; National Museum of Natural History

RESEARCH AWARDS, GRANTS AND CONTRACTS: (new grants in red font; active grants during the review period in blue font)
2015-2019. Multicampus Research Program Initiative: Using UC Reserves to Detect and Forecast Climate Impacts (PIs: Barry Sinervo and Laurel Fox, UCSD: $2,000,000 for 9 campuses and 16 Co-PIs: $24,969 to date for UCSB GSRs in 2015)

2015-2016. UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Award. Predicting responses of wild plant populations to climate change: integrating climatic and biological factors influencing the ecology and evolution of floral attractions ($6800).

2015. REU (Project Baseline NSF award supplement). The evolutionary significance of variation in flower size and style length: pollen deposition, pollen tube competition, and pollen tube attrition in natural populations ($7,000).

2014. REU (Project Baseline NSF award supplement). Geographic variation within and between clarkia sister taxa: Do differences among populations and species reflect genetic correlations within populations? ($7,162)

2013. REU (Supplement to NSF award IOS-0718227). Is sex allocation (the pollen:ovule ratio) associated with early flowering in outcrossing Clarkia taxa? ($6,000)

2012-2015. UCSB Faculty Research Assistant Program. $300-$1050 per quarter to support EEMB 199 students enrolled to conduct supervised research in my lab (Total: $2450).

2011-2015. National Science Foundation, Population and Evolutionary Processes program. Project Baseline: a genomic resource for the detection of future evolutionary change. $1,199,987 ($311,000 to UCSB). Co-PIs Julie Etterson (U Minnesota) and Steve Franks (Fordham University).

2011-2015. University of California Office of the President-Research Opportunity Fund. Tracking Spring on a Changing Planet: Phenology and climate change across the University of California Natural Reserve System: The UCNRS Phenology Network. $40,000 (including $8K in matching funds from UCSB)

2010-2015. National Park Service, Climate Change Response Program. Assess Climate Change Response and Educate the Public Regarding Climate Change in California’s National Parks Through Establishment of the California Phenology Network”, $430,436 to UCSB.

2007-2013. National Science Foundation, Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS-0718227). The joint evolution of mating system, life history, and drought-tolerance in Clarkia: do genetic correlations constrain adaptive evolution? $596,389 including supplemental Research Experience for Undergraduate awards) + $253,000 to Collaborators Simon Emms and Amy Verhoeven at St. Thomas University.

2012. National Park Service, Parks as Classrooms program. Funding to design and to lead two 3-day professional development workshops for secondary school, high school, and adult education teachers to train them in the protocols and educational opportunities offered by the USA National Phenology Network. $23,000. http://www.usanpn.org

2011-2012. National Science Foundation, Structural Systems program. Research Opportunity Award supplement to ongoing NSF award: The evolution of life history, physiological, and floral traits in Clarkia: do genetic correlations affect mating system? $27,790 (Co-PI, Chris Ivey, Chico State University).

2010-2013. National Science Foundation. Renovation of Research greenhouses at UC Santa Barbara for ecological, evolutionary and developmental studies. $1,725,740. Co-PIs Scott Hodges and Ruth Finkelstein (UCSB).

2010-2011. USGS and California Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. Phenology Literacy: Understanding through Science and Stewardship (PLUSS). $49,999.

2007-2012. National Science Foundation, Research Coordination Grant. USA-National Phenology Network. $499,000 to design and to implement the first effort to provide nationwide recording and monitoring of seasonal and annual biological events. Co-PIs: Dr. Jake Weltzin, USGS and Dr. Mark Schwartz, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
2009. Conservation Research Foundation. Sustainable agriculture along a protected forest edge in Thailand: promoting ecosystem services to motivate forest conservation in rural communities. ($5000: Co-PIs Susan Mazer & David Greenberg)
2008-2009. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Connecting People with Nature Through Integration of Climate Change Research and Education: the link between phenology and climate change. ($40,000)
2006- 2007. University of California Pacific Rim Research Grant. Planning grant to initiate studies of ecosystem services provided by protected rainforest habitats in Thailand. (Co-investigators: Dr. David Woodruff [UCSD] & Dr. David Greenberg: $15,000).
2006. University of California Pacific Rim Research Grant. Mini-grant to co-teach rainforest Biodiversity & Research Training course to graduate students at Walailak University, Nakkom Sri Thammarat, Thailand, May 2006 ($3000).
2002 - 2004. National Parks Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Sponsor (postdoctoral fellow: Dr. Kristina Hufford): Molecular genetic and ecological differentiation among Channel Island and mainland wild populations of California native perennial grasses: implications for restoration ($150,000).
2003 - 2004. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. "Beyond hand-pollinations — Linking pollen limitation to plant population biology" Working Group (Co-PI's Drs. Tia-Lynn Ashman, Tiffany Knight, and Martin Morgan: $64,720).
2001 - 2003. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. "Comparative ecology of functional and life history traits among neotropical rainforest species" Working Group (Co-PI's Drs. David Ackerly, Horacio Paz and Miguel Martinez-Ramos: $53,000).
2002. Vandenberg Air Force Base: Factors influencing the successful restoration of Native Grasslands at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California ($22,500)
2001. UCSB Committee on Research (intramural grant: $19,000), Molecular genetic evidence for gene flow and hybridization between resident and alien populations of California native perennial grasses at the UC Sedgwick Ranch Reserve.
2001. Pearl Chase Conservation Fund (intramural grant awarded by UCSB; $17, 634), Local Adaptation, Conservation, and Restoration of California Grasslands.
2000-2001. National Science Foundation Population Biology Panel, Small Grant for Exploratory Research. Gene Flow and Hybridization Between Introduced and Endemic Populations of Three Native Perennial Grass Species. Co-PI, O. James Reichman. ($22,464).
2001. Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award. National Science Foundation, Program in Population Biology and Physiological Ecology ($10,000).
1999 – 2001. Vandenberg Air Force Base Conservation Fund. Restoration of Native Grasslands at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. ($90,000).
2000 – 2001. California State Department of Fish and Game. Molecular genetic variation within and among populations of two federally endangered species: Arenaria paludicola (Caryophyllaceae) and Rorippa gambelii (Brassicaceae) ($36,000).
1999 – 2000. UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Seed Preparation, Cultivation and Preservation of Two Endangered Spcies, Rorippa gambelii and Arenaria paludicola ($1800).
1998 – 1999. Vandenberg Air Force Base Conservation Fund. Restoration of Native Grasslands at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. ($20,000).
1999 – 2003. National Science Foundation Population Biology Panel. The evolution of sex ratio and gender in selfing vs. outcrossing Clarkia spp. (Onagraceae): testing components of sex allocation theory. Collaborative grant with Dr. Veronique Delesalle (Gettysburg College). (Total award: $308,000; award to Susan Mazer/UCSB: $223,000).

1999 – 2000. California State Department of Fish and Game. Restoration and recovery of Arenaria paludicola (Caryophyllaceae) and Rorippa gambelii (Brassicaceae): two endangered species. ($24,000).

1998 - 1999. California State Department of Fish and Game. Restoration and recovery of Arenaria paludicola (Caryophyllaceae) and Rorippa gambelii (Brassicaceae): two endangered species. ($11,200).
1999 - 2000. Vandenberg Air Force Base. Effects of grazing on the diversity and relative abundances of California native perennial grass species in a serpentine grassland ($24,000).
1998 - 1999. Vandenberg Air Force Base. Restoration of native grasslands at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Record Number 08981080 ($30,000).
1997 – 1998. University of California, Santa Barbara, Committee on Research Grant. Gender allocation in wild plant species: testing assumptions and predictions. ($5,000)
1998 - 1999. University of California, Santa Barbara, Committee on Research Grant. Sex allocation and gender expression in Clarkia unguiculata vs. C. exilis: testing assumptions of sex allocation theory ($4,000).
1999 – 2000. University of California, Santa Barbara, Committee on Research Grant. Testing the assumptions of sex allocation theory in Clarkia species ($5,000)
1991 - 1997. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in recognition of research and teaching accomplishments. $25,000/year + $37,500/year available in matching funds from the National Science Foundation (a total of $291,251 was awarded from NSF, in addition to matching funds from several sources [below]).
1995 - 1996. Variation in Siring Success in Clarkia unguiculata. NSF Dissertation Improvement Award (with Steve Travers). ($1827)
1995. Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France). One-year Poste-Rouge sabbatical fellowship as an Associate Research Director in the Laboratoire d’Evolution et Systematique des Végétaux, Université de Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France.
1995. Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award. National Science Foundation, Program in Population Biology and Physiological Ecology ($4,000). To provide undergraduate research assistantships for the project, "Sex Allocation and Gender in Wild Populations of Spergularia marina (the sand-spurrey: Caryophyllaceae): An examination of the assumptions of theoretical models."
1994. Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award. National Science Foundation, Program in Population Biology and Physiological Ecology ($5,000). To provide undergraduate research assistantships for the project, "Sex Allocation and Gender in Wild Populations of Spergularia marina (the sand-spurrey: Caryophyllaceae)"
1993 - 1994. National Geographic Society, "Ecological Consequences of Forest Fragmentation on an Amazonian Palm Community" ($37, 024, including matching funds from the National Science Foundation [Presidential Young Investigator Award])
1993 - 1994. Grant from Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for the "Collection of Vegetative and Reproductive Botanical Specimens from Rainforest Species of Southeastern Peru for Medicinal Testing" and for the publication of a photographic Guide to the Fruits and Seeds of Lowland Tropical Rainforest Species of Madre de Dios. ($150,000: including matching funds from the NSF PYI Award)
1993 - 1994. The Nature Conservancy, "Distribution, Abundance, and Reproductive Biology of Field and Greenhouse Populations of Gambel's Watercress (Rorippa gambellii: Brassicaceae) and Marsh Sandwort (Arenaria paludicola: Caryophyllaceae). ($46,282: including matching funds from the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award)
1992 - 1994. National Science Foundation. Program in Population Biology and Physiological Ecology ($85,000. Co-PI Dr. Veronique Delesalle, Emory University). Sex Allocation and Gender in Wild Populations of Spergularia marina (the sand-spurrey: Caryophyllaceae): An examination of the assumptions of theoretical models.
1992 - 1993. California State Department of Fish and Game. ($81,628: including matching funds from the National Science Foundation). Demography and Reproductive Biology of Field and Greenhouse Populations of Kern mallow (Eremalche kernensis: Malvaceae), Woolly threads (Lembertia congdonii: Asteraceae), and Jewelflower (Caulanthus californicus: Brassicaceae), three endangered species of California.
1991 - 1992. Competitive Research Award. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History BIOLAT Research Program. $3500 grant to continue the study of seed dispersal, seed accumulation and the seed flora in Manu National Park, Peru .
1992 - 1993. California State Department of Fish and Game. ($10,000: including matching funds from the National Science Foundation). Reproductive Biology of the Rare Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis from (Leguminosae) Fish Slough Natural Area, Bishop, California.
1991 - 1993. National Science Foundation Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research ($8000, with Charles T. Schick). Program in Population Biology and Physiological Ecology. “Causes of Geographic Variation in Flower Size in Nemophila menziesii H. & A. (Hydrophyllaceae).
1992 - 1993. Faculty General Research Grant ($3000; University of California, Santa Barbara). Support of ongoing research project, “Quantitative genetics and evolutionary implications of gender variation in Spergularia marina”.
1991 - 1992. Faculty General Research Grant ($4000; University of California, Santa Barbara). Support of ongoing research project, “Constancy of genetic parameters of life history and reproductive traits in Raphanus sativus”.
1990 - 1991. Competitive Research Award. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History BIOLAT Research Program. $5000 grant to continue the study of seed dispersal, seed accumulation and the seed flora in Manu National Park, Peru.
1990 - 1991. Faculty General Research Grant ($4000; University of California, Santa Barbara). Support of ongoing research project, “Constancy of genetic parameters of life history and reproductive traits in Raphanus sativus”.
1990 - 1991. Hoover Trust and Hardman Fund. With Charles T. Schick ($1000) to conduct dissertation research on geographic variation in flower size in Nemophila menziesii.
1990 - 1991. American Philosophical Society. $4000 to continue study, “Seed dispersal and accumulation within and among habitats of a neotropical rainforest (Manu National Park, Peru)”.
1989 and 1990. Competitive Research Awards. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History BIOLAT Research Program. $2500 and $2765 grants to continue the study of the ecology of seed dispersal in Manu National Park, Peru.
1989. Faculty General Research Grant ($4000; University of California, Santa Barbara). Support of ongoing research project in Manu National Park, “Comparative seed ecology in a neotropical rainforest: seed dispersal and accumulation in four habitats”.
1988. Faculty General Research Grant ($5000; University of California, Santa Barbara). Support of pilot study, “Genetic and environmental influences on components of reproduction in Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish): effects of population density on estimates of genetic parameters”.
1988. Smithsonian Institution Research Opportunities Fund ($1500); seed money to initiate a longterm study of seed dispersal in the lowland tropical Amazonian rainforest of Manu National Park, Peru as a participating ecologist and research associate in the collaborative Peruvian/North American Smithsonian BIOLAT program.
1984 - 1985. Co-author and co-investigator of an ecological consulting contract with the Northern California Power Agency ($50,000): “The reproductive biology, life history and boron-tolerance of Streptanthus morrisonii (Brassicaceae)”.

INVITED INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA & WORKSHOPS:
2010-2011. (Meetings in May 2010 and December 2010). National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Workshop: Forecasting Phenology: Integrating ecology, climatology, and phylogeny to understand plant responses to climate change.
2007. Wenner-Gren Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden), symposium on Mating System Evolution, held at the Kristineberg Marine Research Station.January, 2006. Second Field Ecology Symposium in Biodiversity Management, King Mongkut's University of Technology-Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand. “Pollen-limited seed initiation in Etlingera littoralis (Zingiberaceae), in Khao Nan National Park, Nakhon Si Tammarat Province, Thailand”.
2006. Second Field Ecology Symposium in Biodiversity Management, King Mongkut's University of Technology-Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand. “Pollen-limited seed initiation in Etlingera littoralis (Zingiberaceae), in Khao Nan National Park, Nakhon Si Tammarat Province, Thailand”.
2005. NSF-DFG United States – Germany Conference on Biodiversity, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Title: “Seed size, adult abundances and habitat preferences in neotropical rainforests: alternative approaches to the study of morphological diversity”
2005. Abdul Salam Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, “Interspecific scaling of seed size and adult abundances of neotropical woody species within and across habitats: is size destiny?”
2004. Botanical Congress of Mexico, Oaxaca, Mexico. “Seed size, habitat preference, and adult abundances of neotropical woody species”
2004. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Pollination Biology Graduate Workshop. “Mating system, pollen competition in selfing vs. outcrossing taxa: novel predictions for the comparative study of pollen tube growth rates”
2004. Association for Tropical Biology Symposium: Morphology and life history of tropical woody species. “Seed size, germination syndrome, segregation among habitats, and adult tree population densities in neotropical communities”
1999. International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri. “Ecology and evolution of plant reproductive traits” (symposium organizers: Susan J. Mazer and Christophe Thébaud)
1995. Jacques Monod Conference on Genetics and Adaptation, Centre National de Recherche Scientific, Aussois, France. “Sex allocation, variation, and covariation in floral and gender-related traits: evolutionary predictions and preliminary observations.”