Dr. Rob Crystal-Ornelas

Former faculty research assistant

Rob received his BA in Biology from Boston University and his PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers University. For his doctoral research, Rob analyzed data from thousands of articles on invasive species impacts to identify the taxa, ecosystems, and spatiotemporal scales that received the most and least published research. The goal of Rob’s work is to use evidence synthesis methods like systematic review and meta-analysis to identify broad field-wide trends in the publication record that would be otherwise undetectable in single case studies. Rob is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Energy Geosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.