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DR. RAPHAEL DAVID SAGARIN
Associate Research Scientist, Institute of the Environment
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0001
Office: 520-***-**** Mobile: 520-***-**** E-mail: ****@*****.*******.***
www.rafesagarin.com
EDUCATION
9/95-1/01University of California, Santa Barbara. Ph.D. Ecology, Evolution, and Marine
Biology.
Evaluating the effects of climate change on biological communities: Integrating
historical science
with biogeography and physiology Advisor: Dr. Steven Gaines
4/96-6/96University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories. Comparative Invertebrate
Embryology.
Dr. Richard Strathmann.
9/90-6/94Stanford University B.S. Earth Systems Biology. Advisor: Dr. Joan Roughgarden.
4/93-6/93Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA. Original
research on intertidal
marine invertebrate populations in Monterey Bay. Advisor: Charles Baxter.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
9/06-8/09Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Associate Director
.
9/06-8/09Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. Assistant Research
Professor
.
1/05-9/06University of California Los Angeles Institute of the Environment. Assistant
Research Biologist II.
9/03-12/04University of CaliforniaLos Angeles Department of Environmental Health
Sciences. Post-doctoral
researcher with Professor Richard Ambrose
9/02-8/03Geological Society of America/U.S. Geological Survey Congressional Science
Fellow, office of
Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis. Washington, D.C.
2/02-12/04University of California Santa Barbara Assistant Research Biologist I.
2/01 2/02 Stanford University Post-doctoral researcher with Professor Fiorenza Micheli
FELLOWSHIPS
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (Class of 2011)
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow (Class of 2002-3)
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellow (Class of 2000)
RESEARCH
Environmental & conservation policy. Evolutionary approaches to adaptation in society.
Political ecology of
resource exploitation. Historical ecology. Community responses to climate change.
Intertidal community
ecology. Biogeographic patterns of species ranges. Comparative physiology.
PUBLICATIONS
2001 Sagarin, R. False estimates of the advance of spring. Nature 414: 600.
2001 Sagarin R. and F. Micheli. Climate change in nontraditional data sets. Science 294:
811
1999 Sagarin, R., J. Barry, S. Gilman, and C. Baxter. Climate related changes in an
intertidal community over short
and long time scales. Ecological Monographs 69: 465-490.
1995 Barry J., C. Baxter, R. Sagarin, S. Gilman. Climate-related, long-term faunal
changes in a California rocky intertidal. Science, 267: 672-675.
Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed Correspondence and Reports
2010 Sagarin, R. Science communication: more than words. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment. 9(8): 458
2010 Sagarin, R. Book review of Global Environmental Change and Human Security. The
Quarterly Review of
Biology 85(3): 358-359.
2009 Sagarin, R. Using nature s clock to measure phenology. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment. 7(6): 296.
2009 North Carolina Ocean Policy Steering Committee (one of 15 members). Developing a
Management Strategy for
North Carolina s Coastal Ocean. Report to the North Carolina Coastal Resources
Commission.
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Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed Correspondence and Reports (Continued)
2009 Gaines, S. D., S. E. Lester, G. L. Eckert, B. P. Kinlan, R. D. Sagarin and B.
Gaylord. Dispersal and geographic
ranges in the sea. In: Witman, J. and K. Roy (eds.) Marine Macroecology. University of
Chicago
Press
2008 Sagarin, R. Return to natural history. Book review of: Return to Warden s Grove:
Science, Desire and the Lives
of Sparrows, by Christopher Norment. Science. 320:180.
2008 Sagarin, R. The origins of natural security. In Sagarin, R. and T. Taylor, editors.
Natural Security: A Darwinian
Approach to a Dangerous World. University of California Press.
2008 Sagarin, R. A holistic view of natural security. In Sagarin, R. and T. Taylor,
editors. Natural Security: A
Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World. University of California Press.
2007 Sagarin, R. Climate change. In Encyclopedia of Tidepools. Edited by Steven Gaines
and Mark Denny.
University of California Press
2007 Sagarin, R. In support of observational studies. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment 5(6): 294
2005 Sagarin, R., J. Smith, J. Augello. Assessment of the Information Need for Protection
of the Bay s Living
Resources and Habitats. Report for the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission
2003 Sagarin, R. Homeland and climatic security at the crossroads of science and policy.
GSA Today Vol. 13, No.
6, pp. 58 9.
2002 Sagarin, R. A checklist for historical studies of species responses to climate
change. in Managing For Healthy
Ecosystems. Edited by Rapport DJ, WL Lasley, DE Rolston, NO Nielsen, CO Qualset, and AB
Damania. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, USA.
2001 Sagarin, R. Historical studies of species responses to climate change: promise and
pitfalls. Pages 127 -163 in
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change. Edited by Stephen Schneider & Terry Root. Island
Press.
Washington, D.C.
Popular Articles and Opinion Pieces
2012 Sagarin, R. When catastrophe strikes, emulate the octopus. Wired. April 2012.
2010 Sagarin, R. and M. Turnipseed. The Gulf oil disaster and the Public Trust Doctrine.
McClatchy. June 11.
2010 Sagarin, R. Nature s lessons for adapting to the terrorist threat. Op-Ed. McClatchy.
January 8.
2009 Sagarin, R. Barefoot in the desert. Tucson Green Times. November.
2009 Sagarin, R. A natural security briefing: five key security lessons from nature.
Washington Technology. April
2008 Sagarin, R. Swimming outside the box. Worth Magazine. August/September
2008 Sagarin, R. and Taylor, T. Adaptation is key to national security. Op-Ed. The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
September 9, 2008.
2008 Sagarin, R. Fiddler crabs and dirty bombs: a multidisciplinary look at Natural
Security . The Bear Deluxe
Magazine. 27: 18-22.
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SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS (of approximately 100)
10/11Arizona Senior Academy Tucson, AZ
10/11One Health Academy Washington, DC
8/11 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Austin, TX
7/11 Arizona K-12 Center
STEM Camp for Public School Teachers, Tucson, AZ
6/11 Naval Postgraduate School Masters in Homeland Security Program, Shepherdstown, WV
5/11 Undergraduate Biological Research Program Ethics Retreat, Biosphere2, Oracle, AZ
4/11 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
3/11Naval Postgraduate School Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program, Monterey, CA
2/11 University of Arizona School of Natural Resources, Tucson, AZ
2/11Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense & Security, Monterey, CA
10/10Phenology Research and Observations of Southwest Ecosystems Keynote Address.
Tucson, AZ
9/10 American Political Science Association Annual Conference. Washington, DC
9/10 Naval Postgraduate School Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program, Monterey, CA
6/10 Office of Naval Research Conference on Operational Adaptation. Keynote Speaker.
Edinburgh, UK
5/10 Stanford University Holism in Biology Field Course, Gulf of California, BCS, Mexico
3/10 Duke University Social Ecological Systems Field Course, Gulf of California, Sonora,
Mexico
3/10 Montana State University Ecology Seminar. Bozeman, MT
2/10 University of Arizona Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar. Tucson, AZ
2/10 Naval Postgraduate School Homeland Security Executive Leaders Program, Monterey, CA
1/10 University of Arizona School of Natural Resources Seminar. Tucson, AZ
12/09Office of Naval Research Invited Seminar. Arlington, VA
12/09National Phenology Network University of Arizona/USGS. Tucson, AZ
11/09Naval Postgraduate School Lacey Suiter Policy Forum, Monterey, CA
10/09 University of ArizonaDepartment of Geography. Tucson, AZ
9/09Naval Postgraduate School Master s in Homeland Security Program, Monterey, CA
9/09 SAHRA Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ
6/09Naval Postgraduate School Master s in Homeland Security Program, Shepherdstown, WV
4/09 Research Triangle Park/NC Museum of Life & Science Techie Tuesday Seminar
3/09NOAA Knauss Sea Grant Fellows Annual Retreat. Silver Spring, MD
1/09 Duke University Marine Lab Seminar Series, Beaufort, NC
12/08Duke University University Program in Ecology. Durham, NC
10/08Triangle Center for Homeland Security Solutions Durham, NC
10/08 University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources, Tucson, AZ
10/08Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Tucson, AZ
5/08Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA
5/08Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford, CA
4/08 Center for Strategic and International Studies Washington, DC
4/08 AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy Washington, DC
3/08Research Triangle Institute Seminar, Durham, NC
5/07Human Behavior Evolution and Society Annual Conference. Williamsburg, VA
4/07 University of Arizona School of Natural Resources. Tucson, AZ
3/07 University of North Carolina Marine Science. Chapel Hill, NC
2/07Duke University University Program in Ecology. Durham, NC
2/07CHICLE Carrboro, NC
11/06Elon University, Biology Seminar. Burlington, NC
10/06 Working Group on Latin America and the Environment Duke University, Durham, NC
9/06 University of South Carolina Biology Seminar. Columbia, SC
3/06 Universidad del Mar Special Seminar. Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico
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SELECTED CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS
1996-2010 Western Society of Naturalists Thirteen Annual Meetings. Various locations.
8/09 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM
7/07 Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. Port Elizabeth, South Africa
7/06 Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA
1/05 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA
6/04 Western Society of Malacologists Annual Meeting. Ensenada, Mexico
6/04 Gulf of California Conference Tucson, AZ
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Co-organizer: 2012 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Symposium: Observation
and Life on Earth: the
st
Changing Face of 21 Century Ecological Science
Editor, Environment Section, Evolution: This View of Life http://thisviewoflife.com
Faculty Advisor: 2011 Arizona K-12 Center Tech Camp for teacher training in environmental
science
Co-organizer: 2009 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting: Organized oral session
on the Public Trust
Doctrine. Albuquerque, NM
Co-organizer: 2009 International Marine Conservation Congress Symposium: In Conservation
We Trust: Reviving the
Public Trust Doctrine to Conserve Oceans. Fairfax, VA
Co-organizer: AAAS 2009 Annual Meeting Symposium: Natural Security A Darwinian Approach
to a Dangerous
World. Chicago, IL
Participant: (ongoing)NCEAS Working Group: Envisioning a Sustainable Global Seafood
Market and Restored Marine
Ecosystems. Santa Barbara, CA
Participant: 2007-8 NCEAS Working Group: Market Based Mechanisms for by-catch Mitigation.
Santa Barbara, CA
Principal Investigator 2005-2007: NCEAS Working Group: Ecological and evolutionary models
for homeland security
strategy. Santa Barbara, CA
Guest Instructor: Beam Reach Science and Sustainability Field School, Friday Harbor, WA
Participant: 2005 Union of Concerned Scientists Science Education Day, Sacramento, CA
Researcher: 2004 expedition to retrace the Steinbeck/Ricketts Sea of Cortez expedition
of 1940.
Co-organizer: AAAS 2002 Annual Meeting Symposium: Community-Based Marine Resource
Management
PUBLIC SERVICE
Board Member CEDO Intercultural Tucson, AZ and Puerto Penasco, Mexico
Member, Marine Science Panel, Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network
Mentor, Arizona Assurance Scholars, University of Arizona
Member, North Carolina Ocean Policy Steering Committee
Legislative Advisor, Joint Ocean Commissions Initiative
Member, Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuarine Program Science and Technical Advisory
Committee
City and County of Durham, NC, Environmental Affairs Board, Biology Representative
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2011 Reviewer, Carson Graduate Scholars Fellowships, University of Arizona
2010-11 Chair of Judges, Graduate Student Environmental Research Blitz, University of
Arizona
2009-present Graduate Advisor, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
2007-present Student Advising, Duke University: 3 Ph.D.; 4 Master s in Environmental
Management; 1 undergraduate
2008-9 Provost s Undergraduate Team Teaching Initiative, Duke University
2008 Faculty Search Committee, Biological Oceanography, Division of Marine Science and
Conservat ion, Nicholas
School of the Environment, Duke University Resulted in hire of James Hench
2008 Faculty Search Committee, Social Science Conservation, Division of Marine Science
and Conservation, Nicholas
School of the Environment, Duke University Resulted in hire of Xavier Basurto
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ACADEMIC SERVICE (Continued)
2008 Dean s Committee on Water Resources, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke
University
2008-9 Undergraduate Initiative on Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of
the Environment, Duk e
University
Reviewer: (Positions): AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program; GSA
Congressional Fellows
(Grants): California Sea Grant; National Estuarine Research Reserve System; National
Geographic Society;
NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research; National Parks Service George Melendez
Wright Climate Change Fellowships; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada;
Romanian National Science Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation; U.S. National
Science
Foundation
(Journal Articles): Bulletin of Marine Science; Climate Research; Conservation Biology;
Ecological
Applications; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Environmental Management; Frontiers in Ecology
and the
Environment; Functional Ecology; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Journal of
Biogeography;
Journal of Ecology: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology; Journal of Sea
Research; Marine Biology; Marine Ecology Progress Series; Molecular Ecology; Oikos; PLoS
One;
Science; Stanford Journal of Law, Science and Policy; Sustainability
(Books): Quarterly Review of Biology; University of Iowa Press; University of Oxford
Press; Science
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012 University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources & the Environment. Graduate and
Undergraduate
Seminar, The Desert Sea: Exploring the Social Ecological Nexus in the Gulf of California
2011 University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources & the Environment. Graduate
Seminar
Observational Life Sciences in a Dynamic World
2009 Duke University. Nicholas School of the Environment. Undergraduate capstone course:
Marine
Conservation Science and Policy
2008, 2009 Duke University. Nicholas School of the Environment. Graduate course: Marine
Ecosystem Based
Management
2008 Duke University. Biology Department. California Coastal Ecosystems. Field Course.
2007 Duke University. Nicholas School of the Environment. Graduate seminar: Marine
Ecosystem Based
Management: Hype or Hope?2005, 2006 University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology and Institute
of the Environment. Freshman seminar on climate change and biological systems and upper
division
ecology.
2002 California State University Monterey Bay. Hired to design and teach 2 courses in
Earth Systems
Science and Policy on global environmental problems.
9/96-6/01 Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor for undergraduate biology courses at
Stanford University and
University of California Santa Barbara
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
Principal Investigator
2012 Department of Defense Climate Change Adaptation ($1.3 M)
Submitted Department of Homeland Security Center for the Study of Terrorism and Behavior
Partners
($498,498)
Submitted NSF Biological Oceanography ($510,463)
2009 American Philosophical Society Franklin Grants in Aid of Research ($5,000)
2008 Provost s Common Fund, Duke University ($4,500)
2008 Mia Tegner Award for Historical Ecology Research ($2,800)
2005 Switzer Foundation Leadership Grant ($20,000)
2005 California Coastal Conservancy Wetlands Recovery Project ($30,000)
2004 Switzer Foundation Leadership Grant ($30,000)
2004 Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission ($65,000)
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Principal Investigator (Continued)
2004 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: Working Group ($37,770)
2000 Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research ($1000)
2000 Lerner Gray Fund for Marine Research ($1500)
2000 UCSB Affiliates Fellowship ($3000)
2000 UCSB Science and Engineering Fellowship ($7000)
2000 UCSB Graduate Division Fellowship ($2000)
1995-1998 NASA Global Change Research Fellowship ($22,000 per year)
1998 National Wildlife Federation Climate Change Fellowship ($5000)1996 & 1997 Myers Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust ($1000)
1996 Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research ($600)
Co-PI/Participant/Senior Personnel
2010 University of Arizona AHSS Faculty Grants ($20,000)
2002-2007 NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment ($1.3 million)
9/98-2/01Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
(varying amounts)
9/98-12/00 NSF Research Training Grant in Spatial Ecology ($25,000 per year)
AWARDS
2011 Johnson Award Conchologists of America
2003 2003 Bradley Prize for Best Paper Geological Society of Washington
2000 The San Jose Mercury News Silver Pen Award for editorial letters
1997 Nejat B. Ezal Fellowship Essay Contest Winning essay.
1997 Monterey Bay Independent Booksellers Short Story Contest. 2nd prize.
1996 Edwin and Jean Corle Memorial Book Collection Contest. UCSB. 2nd prize.RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE of RESEARCH
2011 Doster, Stephanie Observing Nature to Help Make Sense of a Complex World. UA News,
April 8.
2010 Hankins, Lamar. The BP Oil Disaster Demonstrates Need for Ending Offshore
Drilling. San Marcos
Mercury. June 13.
2010 Beal, Tom. UA Biologist: Cues from Nature Useful in Keeping Humans Safe. Ar izona
Daily Star.
June 1.
2010 Anonymous. Public Trust Doctrine Could Aid Management of U.S. Ocean Waters.
ScienceDaily.
www.sciencedaily.com. April 13.
2009 Beal, Tom. UA Researchers Retrace Journeys of Yore. Arizona Daily Star. November
29.
2009 Dowd, Alan. Not Doing What Comes Naturally. TCS Daily. www.ideasinactiontv.com.
June 29.
2009 Schneidmiller, Chris. 2009. Evolution Offers Natural Security Lessons, Scientists
Say. Global
Security Newswire. gsn.nti.org. March 23.
2009 Bates, Karl Leif. Ecologist Preaches Natural Security. Duke Research. January
12.
2008 Whitfield, John. Interview: Using Nature to Tackle Terrorism. NewScientist.
February 9.
2008 Gewin, Virginia. Natural Security. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. May.
2008 Nijhuis, Michelle. A Biologist Explains What Security Experts Can Learn from
Nature. Grist.
www.grist.org. April 18.
2008 Yousef, Sameer. Peacocks and Security. Science Progress. www.scienceprogress.org.
April 11.
2007 Gordon, Dick. Reading the Sea of Cortez . The Story, National Public Radio. August
3.
2007 Lucas, Tim. An Irreconcilable Conflict? Marine Ecologist Rafe Sagarin Bridges the
Gap Between
Scientific Fact and Advocacy. Dukenvironment. Fall.PERSONAL Proficient in Spanish; completed seven marathons; political cartoonist; artist;
father; cancer survivor
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