Steve Culberson

Dr. Steve Culberson fancies himself an estuarine ecologist with an emphasis in tidal marsh biogeomorphology. His interests in hydrodynamics, the spatial orientation of habitat features, and systems ecology led him to study the physical underpinnings of the biological interactions and processes that are ecosystems.

Formerly the Interagency Ecological Program’s (IEP) lead scientist, a Fisheries Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and a Senior Ecological Scientist with the Delta Science Program and the California Department of Water Resources, Steven Culberson has had the privilege of interacting with and organizing the activities of dozens of agency and university scientists on behalf of federal and State agencies through project work teams, synthesis teams, science management teams, and coordination teams. These interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts form the core of Bay-Delta science understanding and provide data and analysis in compliance with regulations governing State and federal water projects. Culberson’ career has been spent identifying the underpinnings of ecosystem process for conserving and supporting management of the ecosystems that comprise the San Francisco Estuary.

Culberson served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and volunteer leader in Central Africa after graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio and attending high school in Northern Pennsylvania. Culberson and his family reside in Davis, CA fwhere they’ve lived for more than 25 years.