Brad Shaffer elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Stuart Wolpert Bradley Shaffer, professor of ecology and evolution and the director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, […]
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Joey Curti and Brad Shaffer will serve as science advisors on UCLA film about an autistic boy’s love of bats
Bat Boy — a fictional short film from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and School of Theater, Film and Television
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Gary Bucciarelli in The Guardian.com: Pacific newts threatened at road crossings are already getting hammered hard by the climate crisis
Researchers have found that southern California newts’ body condition – a measure comparing weight and length – declined by 20%
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Zac MacDonald joins Shaffer Lab
Zachary MacDonald is broadly interested in ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that structure biodiversity in space and time. Throughout his Ph.D.
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Joseph Curti joins Shaffer Lab
Joseph Curti is a Ph.D. student interested in applying whole-genome sequencing to California conservation management. Joey’s current research projects include
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Study co-authored by Brad and former lab member Peter Scott offers new conservation strategy for the threatened desert tortoise
The study, co-authored by Brad Shaffer and former UCLA postdoc Peter Scott, was published in Science on Nov. 26 and
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Joint effort to rescue endangered native pond turtles proves successful
A team of biologists — including members from the U.S. Geological Survey, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Forest