Bio:
Dr. Corey Garza is an assistant professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay. Prior to arriving at CSUMB he was a research ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where 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 the relationship between scale dependence, habitat complexity and patterns of species distribution and abundance in subtidal and intertidal marine communities. Dr. Garza serves as the principal investigator for the Marine Landscape Ecology Lab at CSUMB (sep.csumb.edu/mlel) and is the co-director for the California State University Council on Ocean Affairs Science and Technology (www.calstate.edu/coast/index.asp) Geospatial Research Education and Technology Network (www.calstate.edu/coast/GREAT).
He teaches ENVS 300 Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy and ENVS 332, Introduction to GIS/GPS. Dr. Garza is also active in educational outreach, particularly in advancing the participation of underrepresented groups in science. For the last seven years he has served as the 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
Intertidal Community Dynamics
Marine Invertebrates
Geospatial Technology
Statistics
Coastal Policy and Management
Recent Publications:
Young, M.A., Kvitek, R.G., Iampietro, P.J., Garza, C.D., Maillet, R., and Hanlon, R.T. 2011. Seafloor mapping and landscape analyses used to monitor variations in spawning site preference and benthic egg mop abundance for the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 407 (2): 226-233.
Young, M.A., Iampietro, P.J., Kvitek, R.G. and Garza, C.D. 2010. Multivariate bathymetry-derived generalized linear model accurately predicts rockfish distribution on Cordell Bank, California, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 415: 247-261.
Robles, C.D, Garza, C., Desharnais, R.A. and Donahue, M.J. 2010. Landscape patterns in boundary intensity: A case study of mussel beds. Landscape Ecology, 25 (5): 745-759.
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: 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): 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): 107-121.
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): 76-88.
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