Trevor Bak

My research focuses on understanding biodiversity across spatial scales to characterize the unprecedented level of ecosystem change we are experiencing in the Anthropocene. By examining how humans drive biodiversity change and loss and how that reshapes ecosystem functioning, I seek to inform conservation management strategies that promote biodiversity resilience and recovery. My work has spanned from the global to the local, with my Master’s thesis examining the global association of extinction risk with functional traits in marine fishes, and my work with USGS exploring regional dynamics of native Hawaiian forest bird populations. 

PhD Research

In my PhD I seek to push forward the cutting edge of monitoring science to enable us to better track biodiversity by integrating multiple data sources, elucidate how marine shifts in response to climate change are reshaping our oceans, and explore using Hawaiʻi as a model ecosystem to study how substrate organizes marine invertebrate communities.

Education
M.S. Tropical Conservation Biology & Environmental Science,
University of Hawai'i Hilo
B.A. Psychology, University of Chicago