At SF State 2007
Title(s): Department Chair/Professor, Ecology & Evolution
Department: Biology
Address: Hensill Hall 534 Lab: 754, SF State
Phone Number: (415)338-7296
Email: vancev@sfsu.edu
Overview
Vance Vredenburg was raised in Mexico and the United States. His scientific training began as an undergraduate at the University of California Santa Barbara where he worked on ecological research projects in coastal California, Alaska, the Caribbean and Antarctica. His Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (2002) included whole-lake experiments that showed that recovery of threatened frogs in the Sierra Nevada, California is possible with the removal of introduced fish predators (trout).
Research in the Vredenburg lab focuses broadly on ecology, evolution and conservation in the context of climate change. Most projects in my lab focus on amphibians, though we also study bird behavior and communication. My lab incorporates elements of population, community, and behavioral ecology to investigate hypotheses that can explain vertebrate species loss as our climate changes. These include studies of the impacts of emerging infectious disease, introduced predators, and habitat destruction. Our approach uses a combination of field and lab-based experiments as well as comparative methods (using museum specimens).