Christine Whitcraft
Christine Whitcraft is currently a full professor in the Biological Sciences Department at CSU Long Beach and Director of the Environmental Science and Policy program. She earned her B.A. in Biology from Williams College in Massachusetts and her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Following her graduate work, she did a post-doc fellowship with San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and San Francisco State University. Her main research interest is in the functioning of coastal wetlands and estuarine communities from a multi-disciplinary perspective including plant, algae, and benthic invertebrate biodiversity, food web structure, physical environmental parameters, and economic perspectives. As part of a team of researchers, she has been involved in the development of a monitoring framework for estuarine marine protected areas in California.
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