| One of the most profound changes in ecology over the last fifteen years has been a realization that academic science must do a better job of serving the public and helping inform critical societal decisions. Science that illuminates public decisions, but does not prescribe those decisions, is the vision that shapes my research, my classroom teaching, my one-on-one mentoring, and my professional service.
My research program has coalesced around the theme of informing environmental policy and strategy. This entails endangered species management, conservation investment, and environmental risk assessment. Much of my research entails analyzing data collected by others, building databases from a variety of public sources and analyzing these data, or critically evaluating alternative recommendations for environmental action. I also maintain a set of field studies concerning the endangered parasitic plant, Cordylanthus rigidus ssp. littoralis.
In my teaching, I try to include in every course, regardless of level, special exercises that bring science to bear on major societal policy debates. These projects typically involve pulling together data from various web-based databases and analyzing the data in novel ways. Helping students to apply scientific thinking and quantitative skills to issues of societal relevance has become a major theme of my teaching.
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Representative Publications
Kareiva, P., Marvier, M. and McClure, M. 2000. Recovery and management options for spring/summer chinook salmon in the Columbia River basin. Science 290:977-979.
Marvier, M. 2001. Ecology of transgenic crops. American Scientist Parrish, J. K. , M. Marvier, and R. T. Paine. 2001. Direct and indirect effects: interactions between bald eagles and common murres. Ecological Applications 11:1858-1869.89:160-167.
Marvier, M. 2002. Improving risk assessment for nontarget safety of transgenic crops. Ecological Applications 12:1119-1124.
Kareiva, P., and M. Marvier. 2003. Conserving biodiversity coldspots. American Scientist 91:344-351.
Marvier, M., P. Kareiva, and M. Neubert. 2004. Habitat destruction, fragmentation, and disturbance promote invasion by habitat generalists in a multispecies metapopulation. Risk Analysis 24:869-878.
Marvier, M. and R. VanAcker. 2005. Can crop transgenes be kept on a leash? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:99-106.
Marvier, M. 2007. Pharmaceutical crops have a mixed outlook in California. California Agriculture 61:59-66.
Marvier, M., McCreedy, C., Regetz, J., and Kareiva, P. 2007. A meta-analysis of effects of Bt cotton and maize on non-target invertebrates. Science 316:1475-1477. Abstract. Full text.
Kareiva, P., and M. Marvier. 2007. Conservation for the people. Scientific American 297:50-57.
Marvier, M., Carrière, Y., Ellstrand, N., Gepts, P., Kareiva, P., Rosi-Marshal, E., Tabashnik, B., Wolfenbarger, L.L. 2008. Harvesting data from genetically engineered crops. Science 320:452-453. Abstract. Full text.
Duan, J. J., Marvier, M., Huesing, J., Dively, G., and Huang, Z. Y. 2008. A meta-analysis of effects of Bt crops on honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). PLoS One 3: e1415. Article.
Tallis, H., Kareiva, P., Marvier, M., and Chang, A. 2008. An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development. PNAS 105:9457-9464. Article.
Kareiva, P., Chang, A., and Marvier, M. 2008. Development and conservation goals in World Bank projects. Science 321:1638-1639.
Duan, J. J., Lundgren, J., Naranjo, S., and Marvier, M. In Press. Extrapolating non-target risk of Bt crops from laboratory to field. Biology Letters
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