Tadashi Fukami

Tadashi Fukami studies historical contingency in the assembly of ecological communities. He also studies traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and seeks to practice two-eyed seeing, espeically in his role as Faculty Director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma). He earned his PhD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with Jim Drake and Dan Simberloff. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research in Aotearoa – New Zealand and Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before joining the Stanford faculty in 2008.