PhD Student

Grant Galland

Undergraduate Degree: B. S., Marine Ecology

Undergraduate University: University of Georgia 

Email:  ggalland@ucsd.edu

Website:  

Advisor:  Phil Hastings

Research Interests:
    * Broadly: marine ecology, conservation biology, global change biology, ichthyology, plain old conservation, international development.

    * Specifically: Currently, my dissertation research focuses on the relationships between rocky reef cryptic fish communities in the Gulf of California, Gulf oceanography, and human populations.  I am interested in environmental variability over short time periods (individual tides) and small areas (individual reefs) and changes to this variability over long time periods (decades) and large areas (the Gulf).  I am also interested in quantifying the effects to the Gulf of water use activities in the Colorado River watershed and demonstrating the importance of including the ocean and marine/coastal ecosystems in the international climate negotiation process.

Brief Bio:
I am from the great state of Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where I obtained a degree in marine ecology.  After graduation, I spent a year teaching high school biology and natural resource conservation and two years in Belize as a Peace Corps Volunteer for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Systems Project (MBRS).  All of these experiences helped me decide to come to Scripps and study with CMBC.  I recently completed a research fellowship with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and look forward to working on environmental and marine policy, continuing research, and being involved in education in a similar capacity after completing my degree.

Publications:
Herr, D. and G.R. Galland.  2008.  The Ocean and Climate Change.  Tools and Guidelines for Action.  IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.  72pp.

Garcia Salgado, M., T. Camarena L., G. Gold B., M. Vasquez, G. Galland, G. Nava M., G. Alarcón D. & V. Ceja M.  2006.  Baseline of the Status of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Systems.  Results of Synoptic Monitoring from 2004 and 2005.  MBRS.  Belize City, Belize.  www.mbrs.org.bz