A lifelong California resident and product of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, Chris earned a B.S. in Biology with an Option in Physiology and B.A. in Environmental Geography from CSU Long Beach in 2008, thereafter earning a M.S. and Ph.D. in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine in 2015. He's been teaching primarily physiology courses at Humboldt since Spring 2016.