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Robert Crystal-Ornelas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-495-8890

rcrystalornelas@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Rob is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He received his BA in Biology from Boston University and PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University. In his doctoral research, he specialized in meta-analysis and aggregated data from thousands of articles on invasive species impacts to identify the taxa, ecosystems, and spatiotemporal scales that received the most and least published research. He is passionate about science outreach and volunteers with Clubes de Ciencia and hosted the podcast Science in Progress.

At LBNL he works with the ESS-DIVE data repository and focuses on the development and adoption of data standards.

     

Education

  • BA in Biology, Boston University, 2008
  • PhD in Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University, 2019

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2020-Present
  • Faculty Assistant, University of Maryland, 2019-2020
  • Lockwood Lab Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, 2016-2019
  • DataONE Graduate Intern, University of New Mexico, 2018
  • Research Technician, Virginia Tech, 2009

Awards

  • Rutgers Ecology and Evolution Travel Grant ($550), 2019
  • Teaching Assistant Professional Development Award ($750), 2018
  • Rutgers Ecology and Evolution Research Grant ($1,000), 2017
  • Teaching Assistant Professional Development Award ($925), 2017
  • Student Conference on Conservation Science (Best speed talk), 2016
  • City University of New York Research Grant ($1,093), 2016
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Honorable Mention), 2015; 2016
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