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Christopher Dick

Christopher Dick

  • Associate Professor, EEB
    Associate Curator, U-M Herbarium
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999
  • Dick Lab

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    2011 / 2010 / 2009 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Office: (734) 764-9408
  • Lab: (734) 936-4723
  • Fax: (734) 763-0544
  • Email: cwdick@umich.edu

Fields of study

Tropical biodiversity, molecular ecology, plant evolution

Academic background

BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University
Postdoctoral fellowships at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Graduate students

Jordan Bemmels, Brian Sedio, and Na Wei

U-M Herbarium website

UM affiliation

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • U-M Herbarium

Research feature

Climate warming unlikely to cause near-term extinction of ancient Amazon trees
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Wei awarded prestigious Barbour Scholarship

EEB graduate student Na Wei has been awarded the Barbour Scholarship for 2013-14 by the Rackham Graduate School.

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On U-M Gateway: climate warming unlikely to wipe out ancient Amazon trees

A new genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive human-caused climate warming in the coming century.

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NSF grant for Dick's Amazon biota research is part of a $4 million US-Brazil initiative

Large legume tree, Dinizia excelsa, in a remnant of forest left in the pasture, near Manaus, Brazil, Amazon basin. Professor Christopher Dick was awarded a $265,000 five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

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