Click here to download a PDF copy.
Education
space
University of Nevada, Reno
Doctoral Candidate – Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
Advisor: Matthew L. Forister
2018 – Present
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Science – Earth System Science
Bachelor of Science – Ecology and Evolution
2011 – 2015
Grants, Scholarships, and awards
GCA Centennial Pollinator Fellowship ($2,500)
2021
Hitchcock Fellowship ($13,300)
Jerry and Betty Wilson Scholarship ($4,000)
2021
2021
Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award ($5,000)
2021
Ron Leuschner Memorial Fund for Research on the Lepidoptera ($500)
2021
Ben & Beatrice Edwards Biology Scholarship ($1,200)
2020 – 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship ($500)
2020
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Honorable Mention)
2020
Publications
Forister, M.L., Halsch, C.A., Nice, C.C., Fordyce, J.A., Dilts, T.E., Oliver, J.C., Prudic, K.L., Shapiro, A.M., Wilson, J.K., and Glassberg, J. (2021) Community scientists see fewer butterflies across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West. Science 371: 1042-1045 PDF
Halsch, C.A., Shapiro, A.M., Fordyce, J.A., Nice, C.C., Thorne, J.H., Waetjen, D.P., and Forister, M.L. (2021) Insects and recent climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2002543117 PDF
Halsch, C.A., Code, A., Hoyle, S.M., Fordyce, J.A., Baert, N., and Forister, M.L. (2020) Pesticide contamination of milkweeds across the agricultural, urban and open spaces of low elevation Northern California. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8 PDF
Halsch, C.A., Shapiro, A.M., Thorne, J.H., Waetjen, D.P., and Forister, M.L. (2020) A winner in the Anthropocene: changing host plant distribution explains geographic range expansion in the gulf fritillary butterfly. Ecological Entomology 45:652-662 PDF
Kimball, S., Long, J.J., Ludovise, S., Ta, P., Schmidt, K.T., Halsch, C.A., et al. (2019). Impacts of competition and herbivory on native plants in a community‐engaged, adaptively managed restoration experiment. Conservation Science and Practice 1:e122 PDF
Tamura, N., Lulow, M.E., Halsch, C.A., Major, M.R., Balazs, K.R., Austin, P., et al. (2017). Effectiveness of seed sowing techniques for sloped restoration sites. Restoration Ecology 25:942-952 PDF
Teaching experience
BIOL 750 – Research Design
Organized and led sessions that introduced graduate students to R coding and statistical analysis for ecological data.
Spring 2020, Spring 2021
EECB 751 – Philosophy of Science
Designed and implemented course on the philosophy of science, with a focus on ecology, evolution, and conservation biology.
Fall 2020
BIOL 437 – Entomology
Organized and led labs on insect identification and taxonomy.
Spring 2019
Crystal Cove Conservancy, Newport Beach, CA
Designed and implemented citizen science education programs for K-12 students in partnership with California State Parks and University of California Irvine researchers.
Spring 2016 – Spring 2018
Volunteering and Public Outreach
Board member – Nevada Bugs and Butterflies
Co-President – Nerd Nite, Reno, Community Engagement and Lecture Series
President – Plant-Animal Interactions Club
2020-Present
2019-Present
2018-Present
Presentations
Halsch, C.A., Shapiro, A.M., Forister, M.L. 2020. Understanding global change and butterflies with western North America’s longest-running monitoring study. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (virtual).
Halsch, C.A., Shapiro, A.M., Forister, M.L. 2019. The Spatial and Temporal Story of the Expanding Gulf Fritillary Butterfly. The Lepidopterist’s Society Annual Meeting, Davis, CA.
Posters
Halsch, C.A., Shapiro, A.M., Forister, M.L. 2019. An Expanding Fritness Landscape: Minimum Temperatures, Host Plant Distribution, and the Expansion of the Gulf Fritillary. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Journal Reviews
Ecological Applications
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of Insect Conservation
2021
2021
2021
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
2020
Ecological Entomology
2020
Global Change Biology
2020
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
2019
Landscape Ecology
2018
Chris Halsch 