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Education

Ph.D., Ecology                             University of California, Davis      Expected June 2008           

Dynamic models of ecological and evolutionary processes in the wet tropics of Australia and New Guinea. Jim Quinn and Mark Schwartz (co-chairs), Craig Moritz.

B.S., Biology with Special Honors    University of Texas, Austin                     May 2003      

Place prioritization and irreplaceability analysis for biodiversity conservation in Ecuador using modeled vegetation classes as surrogates.

GRANTS

·   NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2007   (co-PI)                              $12,000

·   UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies Travel Award, 2007                                       $1000

·   UC Davis Jastro Shields Research Fellowship, 2006, 2007                                       $5,500

·  Environmental Futures Network, Early Career Research Grant, 2006 (co-PI)             $15,000

·   UC Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, 2005 (PI)                                            $24,800

·   NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute, June 2005                                               $7000

·   UC Davis Graduate Studies Research Fellowship, September 2003                             $3000

·   NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2003-2007                                                            $121,500

·   NSF International Travel Award, September 2006                                                  $1000

·   Undergraduate Research Fellowship, September 2002                                           $1000

 

Publications

Hijmans, R., S.E. Cameron, J. Parra, P. Jones and A. Jarvis.  2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas.  International Journal of Climatology. 25: 1965-1978.

Ferrier, S., G.V.N. Powell, K.S. Richardson, G. Manion, J.M. Overton, T.F. Allnutt, S.E. Cameron, K. Mantle, N.D. Burgess, D.P. Faith, J.F. Lamoreux, G. Kier, R.J. Hijmans, V.A. Funk, G.A. Cassis, B.L. Fisher, P. Flemmons, D. Lees, J.C. Lovett, and R.S.A.R. Van Rompaey. 2004. Mapping more of terrestrial biodiversity for global conservation assessment: a new approach to integrating disparate sources of biological and environmental data.  BioScience. 54 (12): 1101-1109.

Sarkar, S., C. Pappas, J. Garson, A. Aggarwal, and S. Cameron. 2004. Place prioritization for biodiversity conservation using probabilistic surrogate distribution data. Diversity and Distributions 10: 125-133.

Sarkar, S., A. Moffett, R. Sierra, T. Fuller, S. Cameron, and J. Garson. 2004.  Incorporating multiple criteria into the design of conservation area networks.  Endangered Species Update 21: 100-107.

PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW

Cameron, S.E., K.J. Williams, and D.K. Mitchell. 2007. Efficiency and concordance of alternative methods for minimizing opportunity costs in conservation planning. Conservation Biology. In Review.   

MacKenzie, J.B., S.E. Cameron, S. Ferrier, G. Manion, S.E. Williams, and C. Moritz. 2007. Spatial prediction of genes and body size using habitat history and current environment in a dispersal-limited specialist. Journal of Biogeography. In Review.

Faith, D.P., K.J. Williams, S.E. Cameron, D.K. Mitchell and C. Margules. 2007. How Systematic Conservation Planning can help to achieve the 2010 Biodiversity Target. Global Environmental Change: Social and Policy Dimensions. In Review.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SYMPOSIA

S.E. Cameron. 2007. Conservation prioritization and climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of endemic rainforest flora and fauna. SSB Symposium Phylogenetic Diversity, towards a synthesis of concepts and applications for biodiversity conservation. Evolution Joint Meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand.

PRESENTATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Cameron, S.E., J.H. Thorne and P.E. Moore. 2007. Influence of fire and climate change on vegetation in a mountainous national park. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA, USA.

Cameron, S.E. 2007. Climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of endemic rainforest flora and fauna. Society for Conservation Biology Australasia Regional Meeting, Sydney, Australia.

Cameron, S.E., K.J. Williams, and D.K. Mitchell. 2006. A comparison of iterative and terminal stage procedures addressing multiple opportunity cost constraints in systematic conservation planning. Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting.  San Jose, CA, USA.

Mitchell, D.K., K.J. Williams, R. James, and S.E. Cameron, 2005. Defining areas for species conservation in Melanesia: A planning outcomes experience from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Ecological Society of Australia Meeting 2005. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Sarkar, S., M. Mayfield, S. Cameron, T. Fuller and J. Garson. 2005. Conservation area networks for the                 Indian ecoregion: systematic methods and future prospects. in R. Stevenson, K. N. Ganeshaiah, and K. Bawa, editors. Ecoinformatics for Biodiversity Conservation: Prospects and Challenges. I.K. International Private Limited, Bangalore, India.

Hijmans, R., S. Cameron and J. Parra.  2004.  WorldClim: a new high-resolution global climate database.  Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access. São Paulo, Brasil.

Powell, G., T. Allnutt, N. Burgess, S. Palminteri, M. Dickerson, S. Ferrier, G. Mannion, K. Mantle, K. Richardson, J. Overton, S. Cameron, G. Kier, W. Küper, J. Mutke, J. Lamoreux, D. Faith, J. Lovett, M. Vargas, Q. Luke, R. van Rompeay, G. Schatz, B. Loiselle, V. Funk, D. Lees, C. Kremen, B. Fisher. 2003.  Addressing data needs and data gaps in an assessment of the representativeness of the world’s protected area system for poorly-known taxonomic groups.  IUCN 5th World Park Congress. Durban, South Africa.

Fuller, T., S. Cameron and S. Sarkar, 2003.  Selecting Landscape Units for Restoration to Establish Connectivity in a Conservation Area Network: A Graph-Theoretic Model.  Society for Ecological Restoration International Annual Conference. Austin, TX, USA.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis (50%) Principles of Ecology B (Graduate)               Winter 2007

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis (50%) Principles of Ecology A (Graduate)                      Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis (75%) Conservation Ecology (Graduate)                Winter 2005

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis (50%) Population Dynamics and Estimation             Spring 2004

 

Appointments                                                               

Graduate Student Researcher, step 4        University of California, Davis        01/06-09/06

Graduate Student Researcher, step 3        University of California, Berkeley    09/03-12/03

Undergraduate Research Assistant            University of Texas at Austin         06/02-09/03

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Conservation Biology                                            Ecological Society of America

Society for the Study of Evolution                                      Society for Conservation GIS

 

Academic Service

Executive Committee, Graduate Group in Ecology                                        2006-2008

Admissions Review, Graduate Group in Ecology                                            2005; 2006

Graduate Student Association Representative                                              2003-2004

Mentor, McNair Scholars Program                                                              2003-2004

 

 

 

Graduate Group in EcologyInformation Center for the EnvironmentDept. Environmental Science and Policy
University of California at DavisDavis, CA 95616secameron at ucdavis.edu