In January 1998, he was appointed director of the University of California Natural Reserve System. His research has focused on problems in protein chemistry and structure-function relationships, enzymology, and biophysical chemistry. Dr. Glazer has authored over 200 research papers and over forty reviews. Richard Minnich's research focuses on the fire ecology of mediterranean ecosystems of California and northern Baja California. Studies operate at the landscape scale so that sufficiently large areas are examined to establish the fire regime properties of ecosystems, including fire size, frequency and return intervals, denudation of vegetation, postfire successions, and how disturbances exert selection in the distribution of plant communities.
Studies compare fire regimes under different management systems in southern California and Mexico.
Dr. Minnich has also conducted studies on invasive exotic annuals on coastal sage scrub, desert scrub, and native forb fields. Michael L. Morrison received his PhD in wildlife science from Oregon State University in 1982. Since 1992 he has been adjunct professor at the University of Arizona and California State University, Sacramento. He specializes in the study of wildlife-habitat relationships, endangered species restoration, and applications of study design to wildlife studies. He studied wildlife conservation and zoology under A. Starker Leopold at the University of California, Berkeley and has spent virtually his entire career supervising aquatic management and resarch within an area encompassing approximately a thousand waters of the eastern Sierra and desert regions of California, ranging from the 14,000 crest of the Sierra Nevada to the floor of Death Valley lying below sea level.