Faculty

UCSC Plant Sciences began with the opening of the campus. Listed below are faculty whose research heavily utilizes the UCSC Greenhouse facility for plant related studies and our emeritus faculty with distinction in the plant science field. Many other faculty use the UCSC Greenhouses for research as it is not restricted to plant science topics but is a facility open to all research on campus.

FACULTY with plant based research

• Laurel Fox-Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
• Kathleen Kay -Evolutionary botany, plant adaptation and speciation
• Ingrid Parker-Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
• Erica Zavaleta - Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
• Jarmil Pittermann-Plant physiology, plant morphology and physiological variation
• John Thompson-Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of species interactions

Environmental Studies

• Weixin Cheng - Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology
• Greg Gilbert - Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology
• Karen Holl - Restoration ecology, conservation biology
• Michael Loik - Plant responses to environmental stress, implications of global environmental change, biogeography
• Stacy Philpott - agroecology, biodiversity, climate change, community ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem services, food sovereignty, landscape ecology, insects, tropical biology, urban ecology
• Carol Shennan - Agroecology, agriculture-wetland interactions, ecosystem studies,

EMERITUS FACULTY

• Lincoln Taiz
• Jean Langenheim
• Steve Gliessmann
• Debra Letourneau