Mailing address:
361 Steinhaus Hall
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2525
Email: jdpratt@uci.edu
Phone number: 949-872-5072
Current position: LPSOE
Institution: UCI (Ecology & Evolution)
Years at institution: 1
Future courses: Bio 191/ESS 190/SocEcol 186 (A, B, and CW) – Global Sustainability, 30 students; Bio E166L – Field Biology, 25 students; Bio E189 – Environmental Ethics; 200+ students; Uni Stu 13 – Sustainability, 50 students;
Meetings: Society for Conservation Biology and the Ecological Society of America
Presentations: Linking conservation practitioners to K-12 and public audiences through a unique undergraduate conservation research and outreach training program. 2014. Society for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT.
Research interests: Local adaptation and plasticity in plant populations along environmental gradients; influence of historical evolutionary processes on contemporary plant and insect community responses to environmental change; restoration in Mediterranean ecosystems; influence of field-based learning on knowledge retention and environmental attitudes