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| 2/14 - 5/11 | M | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | SCST 274 |
| 2/14 - 5/11 | W | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | SCST 274 |
| 2/14 - 5/11 | F | 11:00 am - 2:00 pm | SCST 274 |
Director, Graduate Program and Professor, Environmental and Ocean Sciences
- PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego, Biological Oceanography
- BS, San Diego State University, Biology
Drew Talley, PhD, teaches a variety of courses including Environmental Data Analysis, Organisms & Ecosystems, Graduate Core Seminar, and Wetland Ecology. His overall research focuses on understanding connectivity across habitat boundaries, and assessing how that interdependence between systems changes with anthropogenic influence both locally (e.g., through habitat loss) and globally (e.g., through climate change).
Areas of Expertise
Marine Ecology, Coastal/Wetland Ecology, Island Biogeography
Scholarly Work
Talley’s research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms and generalities behind habitat linkages, in particular spatial subsidy, and integrating these connections into studies of coastal ecosystems. Examples include research focused on the connectivity of habitats in southern California estuaries; spatial subsidy at the land-sea interface in the Gulf of California; food web dynamics in coastal systems of northern Baja California, and the ecosystem-level impacts of species invasions in southern California. Throughout all of his research, Talley deeply integrates education and applied conservation biology into his fundamental science questions.
Talley has published numerous papers and book chapters, and has been the recipient of awards from California Sea Grant, UC Mexus and the National Science Foundation, among others.
Areas of Interest
Woven throughout Talley’s research and teaching is a philosophy that basic and applied science, teaching, and social justice are all improved by being intentionally interwoven. This sort of “boundary spanning” not only informs Talley’s scholarship (e.g., working with botanists, social scientists, geologists, local communities, and stakeholders), but also his teaching and his lab. Solving the urgent challenges in the environment and society requires a variety of skills, viewpoints, and talent, and Talley strives to create a classroom and lab that reflects and supports a broad diversity of disciplines and communities.
Office Hours
| Section 01 | |||
| 2/14 - 5/11 | M | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | SCST 274 |
| 2/14 - 5/11 | W | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | SCST 274 |
| 2/14 - 5/11 | F | 11:00 am - 2:00 pm | SCST 274 |