Adjunct Professor
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Los Angeles, California
Travis Longcore, Ph.D., is a UCLA ecologist and geographer who has spent three decades decoding how cities work — and how they could work better for the nature within them. Senior Associate Director of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, he has pioneered historical ecology as a design tool, reconstructing the Indigenous ecology of the Los Angeles River, Southern California's wetlands, and the Tijuana River Valley to inform restoration decisions today. His research on urban biodiversity gives landscape architects the scientific foundation to design places that genuinely function as habitat and connect people to pieces of wild.
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WED-C02: In Defense of Urban Habitat: Biodiversity in the Los Angeles Basin
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM PT