Director, Bernard Field Station
Pomona College
Wallace M. Meyer III “Marty” is Director of the Robert J. Bernard Field Station and Associate Professor of Biology at Pomona College. Marty completed his PhD in Zoology at the University of Hawaii, where he studied the status and ecological role of native and non-native land snail species in Hawaiian ecosystems. Before coming to Claremont Colleges, he held a post-doctoral research position at the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona, where he was involved in a collaborative project that examined how climate change and other disturbances affect soil arthropod species and communities, and how such changes could influence important ecosystem processes (e.g., litter decomposition and nutrient cycling).
Wallace has research interests in conservation biology, invasion biology, biogeography, and ecology, including aspects of population, community and ecosystem ecology. His main interest, however, is to understand how and why the species composition of local biotas are changing, and how such changes directly and indirectly affect ecosystem-level processes. Although he intends to address a variety of ecological and evolutionary questions throughout his career, he anticipates that most of his future work will be focused on the preservation and restoration of ecosystems in southern California and Hawaii.