Daniel C. Keck

 

Current Address         

512 Wilkes Circle

Santa Cruz, CA 95060  

(831) 236-4989

dkeck@ucsc.edu
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Terrestrial Ecosystem Science, Biogeochemistry, Plant-Soil Interactions

 
EDUCATION

 

PhD Student, University of California at Santa Cruz, September 2005 – Present

Environmental Studies Department

Weixin Cheng Ecology Laboratory

 

BS, University of California at Berkeley, May 2004

Major:  Environmental Sciences

Thesis:  “Patterns in Reproductive Litterfall along an Elevation Gradient in a Humid Tropical Forest”

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~es196/projects/2004final/Keck.pdf

GPA: 3.53 cumulative, 3.75 upper division

 

Relevant Coursework:

Ecosystem Ecology, Tropical Ecology, Environmental Earth Science, Bioresource Modeling, Statistics

 

POSITIONS HELD

 

Research Assistant, John Harte Global Change Ecology Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Dec. 2004 – Sep. 2005.

 

Research Assistant, Hurricane Simulation and Forest Recovery Experiment, Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program, Puerto Rico, Sep. – Nov. 2004.

 

Field Technician, Whendee Silver Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, June 2004.

 

Lab Technician, Whendee Silver Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, UC Berkeley, 2003-2004.

 

SCHOLARSHIPS & ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

 

Environmental Studies Departmental Research Award, UC Santa Cruz, 2006.

Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2005-2006.

Honoree, The National Dean’s List, UC Berkeley, 2003-2004.

Cal Bears Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 2000-2001.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES                                         

 

Ecological Society of America, active member, April 2006 - Present

Environmental Studies Seminar Committee, UC Santa Cruz, active member, Sep. 2005 – Present.

Environmental Sciences Student Association, UC Berkeley, active member, 2001-2004.

 

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS                                       

 

Silver, WL; Thompson, AW; Keck, DC.  Litterfall along an Elevation Gradient in a Humid Tropical Forest.” In prep. for Ecological Monographs.

 

Keck, DC.  “Patterns in Reproductive Litterfall along an Elevation Gradient in a Humid Tropical Forest.”  Presentation to UC Berkeley Environmental Sciences Seminar, May 2004.

 

REFERENCES

 

Whendee Silver, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, wsilver@nature.berkeley.edu

Andy Thompson, Lab Manager, UC Berkeley, awt@nature.berkeley.edu

John Latto, Lecturer, UC Berkeley, jlatto@socrates.berkeley.edu

Weixin Cheng, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz, wxcheng@ucsc.edu