Past Theses

Year	Name	Title	Advisor
2021	Julianne Bradbury	Responses of Herpetofauna to Fall Fire In Grassland and Mixed Oak-Conifer Forest Habitats	Girman
2021	Ellie Gallanty	Incubation Temperature and Clutch Identity Affect Standard Metabolism in Western Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata)	Crocker
2021	Madeline Sanchez	Monitoring Salt Marsh Habitat Use and Predation of the Recovering Southern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) in a Recolonized Ecosystem	Hughes
2021	Brieanne Forbes	Evaluating Various Remote Sensing Approaches for Ladder Fuel Estimation to Predict Wildfire Burn Severity and Describe Forest Structure	Bentley
2021	Paris Krause	Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Evaluate Non-Destructive Aboveground Biomass Allometries in Diverse Northern California Forests	Bentley
2021	Drew Irwin	Cysteine Persulfide Formation in Prokaryotic and Enzymatic Systems	Lin
2021	Joanna Elmore	Effects of Temperature and Oxygen Stressors on Gene Expression and Performance in a Montane Leaf Beetle	Rank
2021	Allie Northey	Adrenal Response to ACTH Varies with Body Reserves and Alters Thyroid and Immune Function in Fasting Adult Female Northern Elephant Seals	Crocker
2020	Daniel Hudson	Differential Mate Choice Responses to Chemical Cues in Male and Female Pacific Newts (genus Taricha)	Girman
2020	Manuel Hernandez	Interactions Between Sudden Oak Death and Fire Fuel Loads Determine Fire Severity in Oak Woodlands	Bentley
2020	Emily Sperou	A Comprehensive Analysis of Sex Hormones and Their Role in Reproductive Suppression in Female Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris)	Crocker
2020	Anthony Tercero	Can Copies Keep Out the Cold: Characterizing Copy Number of Major Heat Shock Genes in Antarctic Emerald Rockcod, Trematomus bernacchii	Place
2020	Yasmeen Ghavamian	Effects of Increasingly Complex Enrichment on the Behavior of Captive Malayan Sun Bears (Helarctos malayanus) at Oakland Zoo	Jaffe
2020	Caroline Rzucidlo	Changes in Serum Adipokines During Natural Extended Fasts in Female Northern Elephant Seals	Crocker
2020	Cory O'Gorman	Survey of Quercus kelloggii at Pepperwood Preserve: Identifying Specimen Oaks to Reimplement Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Promote Ecosystem Resilience	Bentley
2020	Holly Molinaro	Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate One-Male-Unit Formation in a Captive Group of Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas) at Oakland Zoo	Jaffe
2019	Lisa Surber	Comparison of Habitat Use and Movement Patterns of Native and Invasive Frogs in a Grassland and Oak Savannah Habitat	Girman
2019	Ryan Lewis	Orientation During Post-Metamorphic Migration in an Endangered Population of the California Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma californiense	Girman
2019	Christina Collins	Physiological Responses to Heat Stress in an Invasive Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Depend on Tidal Habitat	Zippay
2019	Gabriela Arango	Blood Oxygen Stores in Olive Ridley Sea Turtles Lepidochelys olivacea are Highly Variable Among Individuals During Aribada Nesting	Crocker
2019	Megan Gaitan	Long-Term Shifts in Community Dynamics in a Central American Dry Tropical Forest	Bentley
2019	Emily Murakami	Environmental Complexity Affects the Development of Bold Personality Phenotypes and Threat Responses in Head-Started Western Pond Turtles, Emys marmorata	Crocker
2019	Kimberly Descalso	Morphological Effects of Phenanthrene on Somitogenesis in Zebrafish via Perturbation of the Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Pathway	Pillai
2019	Justine Gray	An Alkaline Tolerant endo-1,4-β-xylanase of a Cellulomonas bacterium Isolated From an Ultra-Basic Spring	Cohen
2019	Madelyn Strahan	Assessing Tactile Sensitivity Using a Psychophysical Staircase Procedure in the Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus	Crocker
2018	Robert Goddu	Thiocystine-Mediated Persulfide Formation: A Cytoprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Role for Persulfides and Polysulfides in Mammalian Systems	Lin
2018	Sam Bogan	'U-Turns' and New Turns in Cis-/Trans-Regulation of Molecular Chaperones During the Radiation of Antarctic Fishes	Place
2018	Kristen Hosek	Under Pressure: The Physiological Response of Mytilus edulis to Multiple Stressors	Zippay
2018	Jon Edwards	Climate, topography, and Hydropattern: An Interaction of Abiotic Factors Affecting Larval Abundance and Phenology of the California Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma californiense, in Sonoma County, CA	Girman
2018	Dustin Howland	Island Diversification of the Poison Frog, Oophaga pumilio	Girman
2018	Amanda Hooper	How Did I Get So Fat? Maternal Age Influences Growth Efficiency and Offspring Behavior During Provisioning in Northern Elephant Seals, Mirounga angustirostris	Crocker
2018	Caprice Lee Disbrow	Mammalian Herbivores as Drivers of Community Assembly and Plant Invasion	Cushman
2018	Jessica Barber	Effects of Food Distribution and External Factors on the Activity Budgets of Captive Sun Bears	Jaffe
2018	Bo Zhang	Friend or Foe? Relationship Between Endosymbiotic Bacteria and the Stress Response in a Montane Leaf Beetle	Rank
2018	Brennan Chin	Characterizing the Role of DNA Methylation Patterns in the California Mussel, Mytilus californianus	Place
2018	Dipali Vasadia	Cold Fish in Hot Water: MicroRNA Regulation in Trematomus bernacchii Acclimated to Acute and Chronic Heat Stress	Place