Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
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- Title
- Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives
- Director, Fisheries Collaborative Program; Associate Director, Institute of Marine Sciences
- Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
- Department
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department
- IMS-Fisheries Collaborative Program
- Office of Research
- Affiliations Coastal Science & Policy Program, Environmental Studies Department
- Phone
- Website
- Office Location
- CSC Coastal Biology Building, CBB 225
- Mail Stop CBB/EE Biology
- Mailing Address
- 130 McAllister Way
- Santa Cruz CA 95060
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Biology, Climate Change, Coastal Science, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Evolution, Fisheries, Genetics, Water
- Courses BIOE 155 Freshwater Ecology, BIOE 155L Freshwater Ecology Lab, BIOE 200A Scientific Skills
Summary of Expertise
Freshwater ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics, fisheries and fish ecology
Research Interests
I am interested in the eco-evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. The study of eco-evolutionary dynamics focuses on bi-directional interactions occurring between ecology and evolution in nature. I examine how evolution shapes populations, communities, and ecosystems and how these ecological changes feed back to shape the trajectory of evolution. Because my research is at the interface of ecology and evolution, I utilize a diversity of techniques and approaches. In particular, I combine surveys of genetic, phenotypic, and ecological variation in nature with field and laboratory experiments to test the mechanisms underlying observed patterns. My research addresses basic questions in evolutionary ecology and applied questions in conservation biology and fisheries management.
Biography, Education and Training
B.S. University of Michigan
Ph.D. Yale University
