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Join us for Research at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill from 1903 until the present by Deborah Goldberg.

Deborah E. Goldberg is currently Interim Director of Research and Education at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, as well as Adjunct Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UA.

She was on the faculty at the University of Michigan for over 35 years, retiring in 2019 as the Arthur Thurnau Professor Emerita and Margaret B. Davis Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where she served as department chair for 12 years.

Her research in plant community ecology has been recognized by election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, and Vice President for Science for the Ecological Society of America. Research foci include the integration of community and ecosystem processes in plant invasions, and effects of climate change on alpine and on desert plant communities.

Professor Goldberg has worked actively as a faculty member, and department chair to increase recruitment and retention and improve the climate for under-represented groups and has received multiple awards for her diversity and inclusion work at the University of Michigan.

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