From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Associate Professor, Biology Department, Hampton University, Hampton, VA1980 PhD, Utah State University, Logan. Biology/Ecology.1972 M.S., Iowa State University, Ames. Zoology (Animal Behavior).1969 B.S., Iowa State University, Ames. Major: Zoology. Minors: Botany, Genetics. Ecologist Profile When I first went to college, I wanted to become either an…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004. Update: “Dr. Acholonu has been a part of the Department of Biological Sciences since 1991 teaching various classes, serving as director of the Ecology Education Program, Ecology Club advisor, and conducting research.” —Alcorn State Biology Professor Honored Dr. Acholonu holds a Ph.D. degree. He is…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2005. As of 2013, Dr. Twombly was director of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) program. When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology?Like many professional ecologists, I spent lots of time outdoors…
Knowledge has power only when it is shared. From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2005. As with many ecologists, Dr. Kimmerer’s training began in the forests of her childhood home. With European and Anishinaabe ancestry, Dr. Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She helped found ESA’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge…
How do you describe your job when you meet people at a party? I work with penguins. Conservation biologist and penguin researcher Dr. Dee Boersma holds the Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science and Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. She directs the Center for Penguins as Ocean Sentinels and is Co-Chair of the International Union for the…
Lois Hattery Tiffany, March 8, 1924–September 6, 2009 This post is part of a series for Women’s History Month, March 2016. See all related posts. In the later years of her long and celebrated career at Iowa State University, popular field classes (mushroom walks and prairie wildflower trips) gave Dr. Lois Tiffany the title “Mushroom Lady,” by which she is…
Ada Hayden August 14, 1884–August 12, 1950 Hayden is primarily associated with prairie preservation in Iowa. Within a year of earning her Ph.D., her research on the ecology of prairie plants in central Iowa was published in the American Journal of Botany (1919) and the Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science (1919). She issued a tentative call for prairie…
Simon A. Levin Born: Baltimore, MD 4/22/1941 Education: The Johns Hopkins University (B.A. 1961); University of Maryland (Ph.D. 1964) Dissertation title: Uniqueness and nonlinearity. Adviser: M. Martin Comments: Mathematics provided the foundation; ecology provided the outlet. Postdoctoral adviser G.B. Dantzig. Early ecological collaborators: R. H. Whittaker, R. B. Root, R. M. May, R. T. Paine, D. Pimentel, H. A. Mooney,…