Snapshot Stebbins

Dr. Gerhart-Barley grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas and attended the University of Kansas where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2006. Following the completion of her B.S., she worked for a year for the Institute for Educational Research and Public Service (now the Center for Public Partnerships and Research), which manages federal grant money for KU researchers. She began her doctoral program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at KU in 2007, and was a fellow in both the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship, and the NSF-funded C-CHANGE IGERT program. Through C-CHANGE, she completed a certificate in Environmental Studies in 2012 and completed her PhD with honors in 2013. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching (LPSOE) in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis.

Prior to his emigration to the US in 2009 Paul Havemann worked for the South African conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife for 20 years as a wilderness guide and protected area manager. He studied for a degree in conservation biology at the University of South Africa in Tshwane in 1995 and obtained a master’s degree in protected area management from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg in 2012. He has collaborated on conservation issues affecting people and endangered species widely in Southern Africa and has consulted for WWF’s Indo-China Protected Area Program in Vietnam. He is currently the manager of the UC Davis Natural Reserve System’s Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve.