Exequiel Ezcurra
Director of UC Mexus, Professor, UCR and Adjunct Faculty; SIO
Former director of the Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias and provost of the San Diego Natural History Museum; current director of the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS). Dr. Ezcurra is a professor of ecology at the University of California Riverside and an adjunct professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. His 30-year career as an ecologist has embraced a vast range of interests that include nature conservation, the ecology and biogeography of coastal deserts and wetlands, land-ocean interactions, the application of mathematical modeling in ecology and conservation, and the management of natural resources in areas under traditional use.