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David Ackerly is the Dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley.

He joined the faculty of the Department of Integrative Biology 2005, held the Virginia G. and Robert E. Gill Chair in Natural History from 2010 to 2015, and had been serving as Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science's Biological Sciences Division since before his appointment as Rausser College Dean.

His work has tackled a variety of topics including the study of climate change impacts on biodiversity, focusing on the native flora of California, and implications for future challenges in conservation and land management.

He co-directs the Terrestrial Biodiversity and Climate Change Collaborative (tbc3.org), a partnership with the Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood Preserve, focused on climate change and resource management in the San Francisco Bay Area.