Dr. Carl Boettiger

Biography

Carl Boettiger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Population Biology from UC Davis (2012) and a BA in Physics from Princeton University (2007). His research focuses on ecological forecasting, decision-making under uncertainty, and the applications of these approaches to global change and conservation of natural resource management. He is particularly interested in predicting and managing ecological systems that experience regime shifts—sudden and dramatic changes that challenge existing models and available data. The rapid expansion of computational power and ecological environmental data necessitates new mathematical, statistical, and computational approaches to address critical questions in ecology. His work blends ecological theory with the synthesis of heterogeneous data, guiding development in software and recognized data science. Boettiger's research interests include theoretical ecology, ecoinformatics, modeling, data science, resilience, early warning signals, and decision theory.

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