Bio:
Corey Garza is an assistant professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay. He arrived at CSUMB after serving as a research ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As a NOAA scientist he served as scientific liaison to and chief scientist for the USEPA Long Island Sound Study. He has also held postdoctoral positions with the USEPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program and the Center for Environmental Analysis at California State University, Los Angeles. His research interests are in the area of marine landscape ecology. He uses GIS modeling and spatial statistics to study how habitat complexity can affect the relationship between physical forcing factors and patterns of species distribution and abundance in subtidal and intertidal marine communities.
He teaches STAT 250 Applied Statistics for Science and Technology, ENVS 300 Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy and ENVS 332, Introduction to GIS/GPS. He is also active in educational outreach, particularly in advancing the participation of underrepresented groups in science. For the last four years he has served as a co-chair and organizer for a special scientific symposium in Marine Science at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). He also serves as a faculty mentor in the McNair Scholars Program at CSUMB and is the faculty advisor for the CSUMB SACNAS student chapter.
Education:
B.Sc., Biology, California State University, Los Angeles, 1995
Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
Research Interests:
Marine Landscape Ecology
Geospatial Technology
Statistics
Coastal Policy and Management
Marine Invertebrates
Selected Publications:
Robles, C.D, Garza, C., Donahue, M.J. and R.A. Desharnais. 2010. Landscape patterns in boundary intensity: A case study of mussel beds. Landscape Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10980-010-9450-9.
Garza, C. and C.D. Robles. 2010. Effects of brackish water incursions and diel phasing of tides on vertical excursions of the keystone predator Pisaster ochraceus. Marine Biology, 157, pp. 673-682.
Robles, C.D., Desharnais, R.A., Garza, C., Donahue, M.J. and Martinez, C.A. 2009. Complex equilibria in the maintenance of boundaries: experiments with mussel beds. Ecology, 90 (4), pp. 985-995.
Garza, C. 2008. Relating spatial scale to patterns of polychaete species diversity in coastal estuaries of the western United States. Special Issue, Marine and Coastal Applications in Landscape Ecology, Landscape Ecology, 23 (Supplement 1), pp. 107-121.
Hanrahan, G.S., Garza, C., Garcia, E., and Miller, K. 2007. Experimental design and response surface modeling: method development tools for the determination of reduced inorganic species in environmental samples. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 9 (2), pp. 71-79.
Garza, C. 2005. Prey productivity effects on the impact of predators of the mussel, Mytilus californianus (Conrad). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 324 (1), pp. 76-88.
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