California Biodiversity Center

The California Biodiversity Center (CBC) is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California Berkeley that fosters collaborations between the Berkeley Natural History Museums, Berkeley's Natural History Field Stations, and other partners studying changes in California's biological diversity, past, present, and future. The mission of the California Biodiversity Center is to contribute to our understanding of the natural history of California by increasing interaction between museum-oriented scientists investigating the historical underpinnings of biodiversity, and field-oriented scientists investigating contemporary processes influencing organisms and ecosystems.