PhD Student IGERT Global Change, Marine Biodiversity and Society
R. Cotton Rockwood
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Biology: Neurobiology, Physiology, Behavior
Undergraduate University: UC Davis
Email: rrockwood@ucsd.edu
Advisor: Lisa Ballance
Cotton Rockwood is studying the ecology and conservation of seabirds. Cotton is interested the intersection of international law with conservation in the Pacific Ocean. He hopes to forward a holistic approach to seabird conservation embodied by international cooperation and based in sound science. He is currently working on a gap analysis of legal protections for seabirds and an holistic assessment of threats to seabird species in the Pacific. He hopes to build on these projects to produce a geospatial representation of impacts to seabirds and recommendations for a more efficient portfolio of conservations strategies and investments.
Research Interests:
• sea bird ecology
• physiological and biochemical effects of pollutants
• natural capital concepts
• behavioral, genetic and physiological traits allowing adaptability to human stressors
• physiological and behavioral effects of light and noise pollution
• human overpopulation
Publications:
Lowry, D.B., R.C. Rockwood, J.H. Willis. (2008). “Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus”. Evolution. 62(9): 2196-2214.
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