Eric Stiner

Eric Stiner received his M.A. in conservation biology from Columbia University and is currently wrapping up his Ph.D. with the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) and Open University (UK) researching adaptation and environmental effects on the evolution of an organism’s genome. He researches everything from insects to mammals and hopes that his projects will further conservation biology efforts locally and in at-risk ecosystems across the globe. More specifically, his current projects aim to solve some of the mysteries behind unique evolutionary processes that do not adhere to more traditional theories of evolution. He is an avid field biologist and has conducted fieldwork on three different continents. He spends as much time as he can in the field teaching courses and collecting data from vertebrates and invertebrates for a myriad of ongoing projects. He is a co-founder of the nonprofit conservation organization Islands & Seas, based in San Juanico, Mexico. Much of his current work involves education and conservation in this fragile ecosystem just south of the Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, one of the largest and most diverse biospheres in the new world.