Ryan Kelly

Email: rpk@stanford.edu
Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly is an Analyst for Science, Law, and Policy with Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions.  Ryan's role is to bridge the divide between hard scientific data and policymakers' use of those data, bringing both technical and legal analysis to bear on issues affecting the coastal ocean.  Ryan received a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Columbia University, followed by two years of postdoctoral work at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, using molecular techniques to study the interplay among geography, ecology, and genetics in Pacific intertidal animals.  He later received a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, applying genetic and ecological research to real-world questions of law and policy.  His current work focuses on ocean acidification, environmental monitoring, and public resources management.

Publications

Kelly, R.P., M.M. Foley, W. S.  Fisher, R. A. Feely, B. S. Halpern, G. G. Waldbusser and M. R. Caldwell.  2011.  Mitigating Local Causes of Ocean Acidification with Existing Laws.  Science 332(6033): 1036-1037.  

Kelly, R.P. 2011. Spineless Wonders: How Listing Marine Invertebrates and their Larvae Challenges the US Endangered Species Act. 19 Penn State Environmental Law Review 1-53. 

Kelly, R.P. 2010. The Use of Population Genetics in Endangered Species Act Listing Decisions. 37 Ecology Law Quarterly 1107-1159. 

D.J. Barshis, E.E. Sokta, R.P. Kelly, A. Sivasundar, B.A. Menge, J. Barth, and S.R. Palumbi. 2010. Coastal Upwelling May Drive Sweepstakes Recruitment in the Acorn Barnacle Balanus glandula (In press, Marine Ecology Progress Series)

Kelly, R.P., and S.R. Palumbi.  2010.  Genetic Structure Among 50 Species of the Northeastern Pacific Rocky Intertidal Community. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008594 

Kelly, R.P., T.A. Oliver, A. Sivasundar, and S.R. Palumbi.  2010.  A Method for Detecting Population Genetic Structure in Diverse, High Gene-Flow Species.  Journal of Heredity; 101: 423-436.

Jacobs-Palmer, E., R.P. Kelly, and S.R. Palumbi.  2010.  The Biogeography and Molecular Phylogenetics of the Common Eastern Pacific Intertidal Hermit Crabs (Pagurus spp.), with a Description of Pagurus hopkinsiensis (sp. nov.).  (In revision). 

Kelly, R.P., and S.R. Palumbi.  2009. General-use polymerase chain reaction primers for amplification and direct sequencing of enolase, a single-copy nuclear gene, from different animal phyla.  Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 144-147. 

Kelly, R.P., and D.J. Eernisse.  2008.  The Chiton Genus Mopalia: Reconstructing a North Pacific Radiation.  Invertebrate Systematics 22: 17-28. 

Kelly, R.P. and D.J. Eernisse.  2007.  Southern Hospitality: A Latitudinal Gradient in Gene Flow in the Marine Environment.  Evolution 61(3): 700-707. 

Kelly, R.P., I.N. Sarkar, D.J. Eernisse, and R. Desalle.  2007.  DNA Barcoding Using Chitons (genus Mopalia).  Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 177-183. 

Kelly, R.P.  2006.  Genetics and Geography in Pacific Coast Chitons (Mollusca; Polyplacophora).  PhD Dissertation, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology.  Columbia University, New York City.  276pp.