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Tom Mulroy, Ph.D.

Tom is a botanist and plant ecologist with long-held research interests in Dudleya and the botany of Baja California, Mexico.

Tom Mulroy, Ph.D., is a botanist and plant ecologist with long-held research interests in Dudleya and the botany of Baja California, Mexico. He joined Santa Barbara Botanic Garden as a research associate following a career in environmental consulting based in the Santa Barbara area, and he has wide-ranging field experience in arid and semiarid environments in the Southwestern United States and adjacent areas in Mexico. Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in zoology from Pomona College, his master’s in biology from the University of Arizona, and his doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of California, Irvine. 

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