Dr. Richelle Tanner
- Education:
- University of Southern California, Bachelor of Music
University of Southern California, Bachelor of Science
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Richelle Tanner is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Program, jointly appointed to the Schmid and Wilkinson Colleges. She is broadly interested in how climate change affects both ecological and human communities, and our mechanisms of resilience. She uses tools from ecology, physiology, genomics, and the social sciences to ask questions about how coastal ecosystems can rapidly adapt to warming temperatures and more unpredictable extreme weather events.
Her current research projects include: 1) sea hare physiology and population dynamics for increasing eelgrass restoration efficacy under climate extremes, 2) socio-ecological best practices for collective action in Phragmites australis invasive species management, and 3) values-based communication strategies for science-informed policy across stakeholder groups in the California Delta.
Learn more about her research lab at www.seacrlab.com.
Dr. Tanner is also the Science Director at the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (www.nnocci.org) and the Reviews Editor at the Journal of Zoology. She received her PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and two undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies and Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California, and completed two postdoctoral positions at UC Davis and Washington State University. Her work has been supported by agencies including the National Science Foundation and the California Sea Grant, and she has published in journals including Marine Ecology Progress Series and Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Hagani JS, Takekawa JY, Chappell SC, Tanner RL, Ernst AR, Kettenring KM (2023). A remote sensing approach to assess the historical invasion of Phragmites australis in a brackish coastal marsh. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 1171245. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1171245
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Burnett NP, Hernandez AM, King EE, Tanner RL, & Wilsterman K (2022). A push for inclusive data collection in STEM organizations. Science. 376(6588):37-39. doi: 10.1126/science.abo1599
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Tanner RL, Gleason LU, & Dowd WW (2022). Environment-driven shifts in interindividual variation and phenotypic integration within subnetworks of the mussel transcriptome and proteome. Molecular Ecology. 31(11): 3112-3127. doi: 10.1111/mec.16452
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Tanner RL & Moore TY (2022). Virtual expeditions facilitated by open source solutions broaden student participation in natural history research. Integrative & Comparative Biology. icac065. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac065
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Bonanno A, Ennes M, Hoey J, Moberg E, Nelson SM, Pletcher N, & Tanner RL (2021). Empowering hope-based climate change communication techniques for the Gulf of Maine. Elementa. 9(1): 00051. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2020.00051
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Nguyen KH, Akiona AK, Chang CC, Chaudhary VB, Cheng S, Johnson SK, Kahanamoku SS, Lee A, de Leon Sanchez EE, Segui LM, & Tanner RL (2021). Who are we? Highlighting nuances in Asian American experiences in ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecological Society of America Bulletin. e01939. doi: 10.1002/bes2.1939
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Tanner RL & Collins LE (2021). Using publicly-available long-term climate records in undergraduate interdisciplinary big data curriculum. Journal of College Science Teaching. 51(2): 51-55.