EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California, Davis Ecology, Expected 2008
Dynamic models of ecological and evolutionary processes in the wet tropics of Australia and New Guinea.
Jim Quinn and Mark Schwartz (co-chairs), Craig Moritz.

Examination Topics: Principles of Ecology, Community Ecology, Biogeography, Conservation Biology, Research skills and quantitative methods.

B.S. University of Texas, Austin Biology with Special Honors, 2003
Place prioritization and irreplaceability analysis for biodiversity conservation in Ecuador using modeled vegetation classes as surrogates.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Predicting and modeling biodiversity pattern.
2. Assessing climate change impacts on species and phylogenetic diversity in the Australian Wet Tropics.
3. Reserve design and conservation planning.
4. Landscape ecology and environmental change.

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
1. NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2007
2. Early Career Research Grant; Multidisciplinary training workshop for the integration of biodiversity modeling, environmental data, phylogenetic diversity, and carbon accounting, 2006 (co-PI)
3. UC Pacific Rim Research Program Grant; Designing Nature Reserves in Melanesia: Community Based Conservation in a Biodiversity Hotspot, 2005 (PI)
4. NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute, June 2005 5. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2003-2006

PUBLICATIONS
Hijmans, R., S. E. Cameron, J. Parra, P. Jones and A. Jarvis. 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology. 25: 1965-1978.

Ferrier, S., G.V.N. Powell, K.S. Richardson, G. Manion, J.M. Overton, T.F. Allnutt, S.E. Cameron, K. Mantle, N.D. Burgess, D.P. Faith, J.F. Lamoreux, G. Kier, R.J. Hijmans, V.A. Funk, G.A. Cassis, B.L. Fisher, P. Flemmons, D. Lees, J.C. Lovett, and R.S.A.R. Van Rompaey. 2004. Mapping more of terrestrial biodiversity for global conservation assessment: a new approach to integrating disparate sources of biological and environmental data. BioScience. 54 (12): 1101-1109.

Sarkar, S., C. Pappas, J. Garson, A. Aggarwal, and S. Cameron. 2004. Place prioritization for biodiversity conservation using probabilistic surrogate distribution data. Diversity and Distributions 10: 125-133.

Sarkar, S., A. Moffett, R. Sierra, T. Fuller, S. Cameron, and J. Garson. 2004. Incorporating multiple criteria into the design of conservation area networks. Endangered Species Update 21: 100-107.