CURRICULUM VITAE: Barbara Going
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
2132 Wickson Hall
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, Ca 95616
bmgoing@ucdavis.edu
Education
2006-Present Ph. D. Student University of California, Davis
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Advisor: Susan Harrison
2005 B.S. University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Honor’s Thesis Advisor: Dr. Scott Cooper
Graduated with Honor’s and Distinction in the Major
Research Interests
Community resistance to biological invasions
Causes and consequences of endemism in serpentine floras
Climate change and the distribution of plant species
Awards and Grants
2004: Worster Fellowship for honors thesis: The Influence of Light on the Success of Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
($2500.00)
2005: Undergraduate Office of Research and Creative Activities (URCA)
Grant: The Effects of Increasing Nitrogen on the Growth of Watercress
($1000.00)
2005: Vernon I Cheadle Award for outstanding achievement ($300.00)
2005: Dean Bazzi Memorial Scholarship for outstanding academic performance
($500.00)
2005: C. H. Muller Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research ($1000.00)
2005: Distinction in the major for completion of a Senior Honor’s Thesis
2006 – 2007: Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California,
Davis
2007 - 2009: University of California Nature Reserve System Mathias Grant ($2500.00)
2007 - 2010: National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Publications
Going, B. M., J. Hille Ris Lambers, and J. M. Levine 2009 Abiotic and biotic resistance to grass invasion in serpentine annual plant communities Oecologia 159:839-847
Going, B., J. Simpson, and T. Even 2008 The influence of light on the growth of watercress (Nasturtium officinale R. Br.) Hydrobiologia 607:75-85
Going, B. M. and T. L. Dudley 2007 Invasive riparian plant litter alters aquatic insect growth. Biological Invasions 10:1041-1051
Going, B. M., R. Hilton, and B. H. Tiffney 2007 An Aptian cycadeoid from the Budden Canyon Formation, Ono quadrangle, California Madrõno 54:167-171
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