Tom Suchanek

Background

About Tom Suchanek

Trained as a coastal marine ecologist, Tom Suchanek is currently a Research Associate with both the University of California’s Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology (in Davis) and the Bodega Maine Laboratory (in Bodega Bay) California. In January 2014 he retired from his position as Research Manager, Lead Scientist and Climate Change Science Coordinator with the US Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) in Sacramento. Until 2014 he also served on the Action Coordination Team of the West Coast Governor’s Council on Ocean Health which is addressing, among other issues, climate change impacts to coastal and estuarine ecosystems on the west coast. Tom spent 20 years as a Research Ecologist and Lecturer at the University of California @ Davis where he also served as the Western Regional Director of the US Department of Energy’s National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) for eight years from 1994-2001. While at the University of California @ Davis, the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Marine Lab and the West Indies Lab (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands), he taught several environmental courses including: Principles of Ecology, Quantitative Field Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Marine Biology, Marine Invertebrate Zoology, Natural History of Marine Invertebrates, Ecology of Coral Reef Communities, Biology of Tropical Marine Invertebrates, Tropical Field Ecology, and Conflicts Over Ocean Resource Use. He has produced over 150 publications, including peer reviewed journal articles, reports and a book. Personal Website: