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California Conservation Genomics Project: Building the most comprehensive genomic dataset ever assembled to help manage regional biodiversity.

Principal Investigators & Project Titles

A - G

Andres Aguilar, CSULA

  • Population genomics of threatened and endangered vernal pool crustaceans

Doris Bachtrog, UCB

  • Chrysomela aeneicollis, Sierra Willow Leaf beetle

Bruce Baldwin, UCB

  • Edaphic evolution and cryptic speciation in the Layia glandulosa species complex

Paul Barber, UCLA

  • Conservation Genomics of Heavily Exploited California Fisheries Targets

  • Population genomics of threatened and endangered vernal pool crustaceans

Rachael Bay, UCD

  • Genomic signals of local climate adaptation in Yellow Warblers

  • Comparative biogeography of California kelp and their major consumer

  • The Marine Algae and Invertebrates Networks (MA&INet) Consortium

Steve Beissinger, UCB

  • Comparative Genomics of the Threatened California Black Rail and Widespread Virginia Rail

Roxanne Beltran, UCSC

  • Re-tracing the genomic evolution of a conservation success story, the northern elephant seal

Giacomo Bernardi, UCSC

  • Landscape & Adaptive Genomics of an Ecologically Important Residential Intertidal Marine Fish

  • Landscape & Environmental Genomics of an Ecologically and Recreationally Important Nearshore Marine Fish: the Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)

  • Landscape & Environmental Genomics of an Ecologically and Recreationally Important Intertidal Marine Herbivorous Fish

Benjamin Blackman, UCB

  • Conservation and climate change genomics of California monkeyflowers with wide and restricted geographic distributions

Barbara Block, Stanford

  • White sharks from the northeastern Pacific

Jason Bond, UCD

  • Genomics of California Coastal Dune Endemic Trapdoor Spiders

  • Genomics of the California Endemic Feather Millipedes of the Genera Brachycybe and Gosodesmus

Rauri Bowie, UCB

  • Mapping California’s vertebrate genomic diversity

  • Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus)

Alan Brelsford, UCR

  • Migratory and sedentary Allen’s hummingbirds: anthropogenic effects on a near-endemic hummingbird

  • Genetic Diversity in Six Endemic and Threatened Manzanita Species

Mike Buchalski, CDFW

  • Landscape Genetics, Urbanization Vulnerability, and Historical Demography of the Golden Eagle in California

Carla Cicero, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Elsa Cleland, UCSD

  • Landscape genetic diversity in the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica

Chris Convoy, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Russell Corbett-Detig, UCSC

  • Banana Slug Population Genomics

Dan Costa, UCB

  • Re-tracing the genomic evolution of a conservation success story, the northern elephant seal

Shannon Datwyler, CSUS

  • Landscape Genomics of Mountain Pride and Toyon: Two Iconic California Species

Michael Dawson, UCM

  • The Marine Algae and Invertebrates Networks (MA&INet) Consortium

  • Comparative biogeography of California kelp and their major consumer

Elizabeth Dahlhoff, Santa Clara University

  • Chrysomela aeneicollis, Sierra Willow Leaf beetle

Richard Dodd, UCB

  • Genomic structure of Quercus parvula and relationships within the California red oak clade

  • Landscape genomic structure of California Bay

Brian Dorsey, Huntington Gardens

  • Conservation Genomics of California Limnanthes

Lauren Esposito, CA Academy of Sciences

  • Population Genomics of the Western Forest Scorpion

James Estes, UCM

  • Landscape Genomics of Southern Sea Otters

Susan Fawcett, UCB

  • The Opuntia basilaris complex: narrow endemics and desert icons

Amanda J. Finger, UCD

  • Landscape genomics of California's state fish and its close relatives: the Pacific trout

Robert Fisher, USGS

  • A Synthetic Analysis of Reptiles and Amphibians to inform the CCGP

  • Landscape Genetics, Urbanization Vulnerability, and Historical Demography of the Golden Eagle in California

Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, UCLA

  • Landscape genomics of valley oak (Quercus lobata) and island oak (Quercus tomentella): two contrasting oak species

  • The Landscape of Genomic Diversity and Hybridization in Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii) and California Scrub Oak (Q. berberidifolia)

Janet Franklin, UCR

  • Genetic Diversity in Six Endemic and Threatened Manzanita Species

John Carlos Garza, UCSC

  • Landscape genomics of California’s state fish and its close relatives: the Pacific trout

  • Landscape Genomics of Southern Sea Otters

  • Re-tracing the genomic evolution of a conservation success story, the northern elephant seal

Donovan German, UCI

  • Landscape & Environmental Genomics of an Ecologically and Recreationally Important Intertidal Marine Herbivorous Fish: Monkeyface Prickleback

Rosemary Gillespie, UCB

  • Conservation Genomics
    Tetragnatha versicolor & T. laboriosa

  • Population Genomics of the Western Forest Scorpion

Thomas Gillespie, UCLA

  • From sea to summit: population genomics of threatened and alpine California butterflies

Richard Green, UCSC

  • White sharks from the northeastern Pacific

  • Banana Slug Population Genomics

Greg Grether, UCLA

  • Genomics of rubyspot damselflies in California

H - R

Susan Haig, USGS

  • Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Snowy Plover

Laurie Hall, USGS

  • Comparative Genomics of the Threatened California Black Rail and Widespread Virginia Rail

Vanessa Handley, UCB

  • Conservation Genomics of California Limnanthes

Scott Hodges, UCSB

  • Landscape genomics of Phyllospadix species along the California coast

  • Landscape genomics of Aquilegia, including wide-spread, and serpentine and alpine endemic species

  • The landscape genomics of five manroot species, two species of California berry, and baby blue-eyes

David Jacobs, UCLA

  • The Tidewater Gobies – federally endangered, genetically subdivided, a model for metapopulation process and climate change response along the California Coast

  • Conservation Genomics of the California Grunion

  • Conservation Genomics of Heavily Exploited California Fisheries Targets

Sarah Jacobs, UCLA

  • Does a Most-Bizarre Looking Plant Hold the Secrets to Surviving in a Hot, Dry California?, What arid-adapted plants can teach us about a drying California

Jon Keeley, USGS

  • Genetic Diversity in Six Endemic and Threatened Manzanita Species

Andrew Kinziger, Humboldt State

  • The Tidewater Gobies – federally endangered, genetically subdivided, a model for metapopulation process and climate change response along the California Coast.

Michelle Koo, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Kristy Kroeker, UCSC

  • Landscape & Environmental Genomics of Two Ecologically and Recreationally Important Nearshore Marine Fishes: Kelp Surfperch (Brachyistius frenatus) & Black Surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni)

Clemens Küpper, MPIO

  • Conservation Genetics of the Endangered Snowy Plover

Eileen Lacey, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Fay-Wei Li, UCB

  • California Conservation Genomics of the Azolla symbiosis

Amy Litt, UCR

  • Genetic Diversity in Six Endemic and Threatened Manzanita Species

Kirk Lohmueller, UCLA

  • Landscape genomics of valley oak (Quercus lobata) and island oak (Quercus tomentella): two contrasting oak species

Milton Love, UCSB

  • The genomics of California bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) populations: anatomy of exploitation, collapse, and recovery

Lucas C. Majure, University of Florida

  • The Opuntia basilaris complex: narrow endemics and desert icons

Chris Martin, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Karen Martin, Pepperdine

  • Conservation Genomics of the California Grunion- A California icon subject to climate change impacts

Rachel Meyer, UCSC

  • Conservation and comparative historical genomics of endangered California vernal pool grasses

Bob Miller, UCSB

  • Conservation Genomics of the bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana

Don Miller, CSU Chino

  • Genomic diversity of the manzanita gall aphid across California

Brent Mishler, UCB

  • Genetic diversity patterns of an endemic liverwort: Asterella californica

Paul Nabity, UCR

  • Genomic diversity of the manzanita gall aphid across California

Michael Nachman, UCB

  • Mapping California’s vertebrate genomic diversity

V. Thomas Parker, UCSF

  • Genetic Diversity in Six Endemic and Threatened Manzanita Species

James Patton, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Devon Pearse, UCSC

  • Landscape genomics of California's state fish and its close relatives: the Pacific trout

Daniel Potter, UCD

  • Comparative Genomics of the Three Species of Fremontodendron (Malvaceae)

Rachel Prunier, UCLA

  • Landscape Genomics of Mountain Pride and Toyon: Two Iconic California Species

Jessica Purcell, UCR

  • Population genomics of a foundational California native plant, Acmispon strigosus

Peter Raimondi, UCSC

  • Genomic characterization of the black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii 

  • Conservation Genomics of the bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana

Nathan Rank, Sonoma State University

  • Chrysomela aeneicollis, Sierra Willow Leaf beetle 

Diana Rennison, UCSD

  • Population Genomics of hybridization and adaptation in Tui and Arroyo Chubs

  • Landscape genomics of the Speckled Dace species complex in California

  • Landscape genomics of the threespine stickleback species complex in California.

George Roderick, UCB

  • Conservation Genetics of Trigonoscuta Dune Weevils

Jeff Rodzen, UCD

  • Population Genomics of hybridization and adaptation in Tui and Arroyo Chubs

  • Landscape genomics of California's state fish and its close relatives: the Pacific trout

  • Landscape genomics of the Speckled Dace species complex in California.

Carl Rothfels, UCB

  • California Conservation Genomics of the Azolla symbiosis

S - Z

Joel Sachs, UCR

  • One-hundred years of genomic change in a foundational California native plant: leveraging herbaria and modern collections to study contemporary effects of land use change

Ben Sacks, UCD

  • Population structure, landscape genomics, and adaptive genetic diversity in mule deer populations in California

Jason Sexton, UCM

  • Conservation and comparative historical genomics of endangered California vernal pool grasses

  • Conservation and climate change genomics of California monkeyflowers with wide and restricted geographic distributions

Brad Shaffer, UCLA

  • A Synthetic Analysis of Reptiles and Amphibians to inform the CCGP

  • Genomics of shoulderband snails in California

  • Landscape Genetics, Urbanization Vulnerability, and Historical
    Demography of the Golden Eagle in California

  • From sea to summit: population genomics of threatened and alpine California butterflies

Beth Shapiro, UCSC.

  • Landscape Genomics for Targeted Management of Black Bear Populations

  • The Genomic Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation Mountain Lions

  • Examining the impacts of a century of decline on genomic diversity of the Tricolored Blackbird

  • Conservation genomics of California bumble bees

  • Landscape Genomics of Southern Sea Otters

  • Genomic characterization of the black abalone, Haliotis cracherodii

Jonathan Shurin, UCSD

  • Population Genomics of hybridization and adaptation in Tui and Arroyo Chubs

  • Landscape genomics of the Speckled Dace species complex in California

  • Landscape genomics of the threespine stickleback species complex in California.

Tom Smith, UCLA

  • Examining the impacts of a century of decline on genomic diversity of the Tricolored Blackbird

  • Genomic signals of local climate adaptation in Yellow Warblers

Victoria Sork, UCLA

  • Landscape genomics of valley oak (Quercus lobata) and island oak (Quercus tomentella): two contrasting oak species

  • The Landscape of Genomic Diversity and Hybridization in Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii) and California Scrub Oak (Q. berberidifolia)

  • Landscape genomics of a California sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)

  • The landscape genomics of southern and northern California walnut (Juglans californica and J. hindsii) and the California state lichen (Ramalina menziesii)

  • Landscape genetic diversity in the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica

Jason Stajich, UCR

  • Landscape and Population Genomics of lichen Acarospora socialis in California

Shannon Still, UCD

  • Comparative Genomics of the Three Species of Fremontodendron (Malvaceae)

Peter Sudmant, UCB

  • The genomics of California bocaccio populations: anatomy of exploitation, collapse, and recovery

Rebecca Tarvin, UCB

  • Mapping California's Vertebrate Genomic Diversity

Lorena Torres-Martinez, UCR

  • Population genomics of a foundational California native plant, Acmispon strigosus

Neil Tsutsui, UCB

  • Landscape and conservation genomics of California native ants

Matthew Van Dam, CA Academy of Sciences

  • Conservation Genetics of Trigonoscuta Dune Weevils

Jann Vendetti, NHMLA

  • Genomics of shoulderband snails in California

Christopher Vollmers, UCSC

  • Banana Slug Population Genomics

Jeff Wall, UCSF

  • Population dynamics of spotted owls, barred owls and their hybrids

  • Re-tracing the genomic evolution of a conservation success story, the northern elephant seal

Ian Wang, UCB

  • A Synthetic Analysis of Reptiles and Amphibians to inform the CCGP

  • Comparative Genomics of the Threatened California Black Rail and Widespread Virginia Rail

Phil Ward, UCD

  • Landscape and conservation genomics of California native ants

Bob Wayne, UCLA

  • Conservation genomics of three species of California Scrub-Jays

  • Population structure, landscape genomics, and adaptive genetic diversity in Townsend’s big-eared bat populations in California

  • Landscape Genetics, Climate Vulnerability, and Historical Demography of the Yuma Bat in California

  • Management units, landscape genomics, and local adaptations in bobcat populations in California

Andrew Whitehead, UCD

  • Conservation Genomics of Red Abalone

Noah Whiteman, UCB

  • Co-Evolutionary Genomics of California Pipevine Swallowtail and California Pipevine

Kip Will, UCB

  • Conservation Genetics of Dicherius Carabid Beetles

Caroline Williams, UCB

  • Chrysomela aeneicollis, Sierra Willow Leaf beetle

Neal Williams, UCD

  • Conservation genomics of California bumble bees

Chris Wilmers, UCSC

  • The Genomic Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation Mountain Lions

Carol Wilson, UCB

  • Iris macrosiphon: a widespread endemic California plant with considerable morphological diversity, local forms, and ecological specialization.

Hollis Woodard, UCR

  • Conservation genomics of California bumble bees

Felipe Zapata, UCLA

  • What arid-adapted plants can teach us about a drying California

  • Does a Most-Bizarre Looking Plant Hold the Secrets to Surviving in a Hot, Dry California?