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Kevin Lafferty. Dr. Keving Lafferty is a Senior Ecologist with the Western Ecological Research Center. His main interest lies in how parasites affect ecosystems and, in turn, how ecosystems affect parasites.
- Ecology of California's Sandy Beaches
WERC's Dr. Kevin Lafferty studies the food webs of...
- Ecology of Infectious Diseases
The public is most familiar with parasites' role in...
- Kelp Forest Community Ecology
Kevin Lafferty is investigating the possible effects of...
- Ecology of California's Sandy Beaches
Oct 30, 2023 · Staff Profiles. Dr. Keving Lafferty is a Senior Ecologist with the Western Ecological Research Center. His main interest lies in how parasites affect ecosystems and, in turn, how ecosystems affect parasites. He is also involved in research on the conservation of marine resources, investigating strategies for protecting endangered shorebirds ...
Kevin Lafferty. United States Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Marine Science Institute. Verified email at usgs.gov. Ecology Parasitology Conservation Biology Marine Biology. Title. Sort. Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. Cited by.
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- Up from The Mud
- The Making of A Model Surfer
- Fair Play For parasites
On a cold winter day, Lafferty is wading in the black muck of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh, about a 20-minute drive down the coast from his Santa Barbara home and laboratory. Despite the frigid air that has dipped into California, he is wearing his typical uniform: surfer board shorts, flip-flops and a light gray hoodie sweatshirt emblazoned with the...
Born in Glendale, California, in 1963, Kevin Dale Lafferty was raised in nearby La Cañada, the son of a mother who wrote a book and taught classes on earthquake preparedness and a father who was an aeronautical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He fell in love with the ocean during boyhood vacations in nearby Newport Beach and Laguna Be...
Lafferty is acutely aware that he has a privileged, wealthy worldview of parasites, making it too easy to enjoy such thought experiments or view them as cute little study subjects. “I’ve never lost a child to a parasitic infection or suffered a debilitating illness because of one,” he says, horrible circumstances that occur too often in poor countr...
Dr. Kevin D. Lafferty is a Research Ecologist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center and an adjunct faculty with the University of California, Santa Barbara's Institute of Marine Sciences.
Kevin LAFFERTY | Marine Ecologist | Ph.D | United States Geological Survey, Colorado | USGS | Western Ecological Research Center | Research profile. About. 340. Publications. 122,755. Reads....
