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Women in Ecology — Page 7

Dr. Judith Vergun

Judith Vergun, Tradition and Ecology

From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Currently, Director for Conference and Presentation Programs in the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Related Professions, Washington DC.Professor (retired), College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University and School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa….

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Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Science Journalist

From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004. I realized, this is what I should have been doing all my life! If I hadn’t gone to grad school, I might not have found a way to discover science writing. It would have been impossible for me to start a Ph.D. project if I…

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Dr. Diana Wall

Diana Wall, Soil Ecologist

Ecologist Profile Education 1971 PhD, Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.N.D. B.S., Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.Dr. Wall was president of ESA in 1999-2000. Among many honors, she is a Fellow of ESA and a member of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame. She has a page on Wikipedia. Dr. Wall is the recipient of ESA’s 2017 Eminent Ecologist Award….

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Bettie Willard, Alpine Ecologist

Beatrice E. Willard December 19, 1925 – January 7, 2003 “I think my greatest contribution has been to build bridges to non-ecologists, interpreting ecology and its utility to them.” Building bridges, as Bettie Willard wrote to Jean Langenheim in 1986, was a major focus of her career. As a teenager, she began educating people about the natural landscapes near her…

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Portrait of Dr. Maria Uriarte in a red sweater, black blouse in front of a tree in a forest.

Maria Uriarte, Tropical Forest Ecology

From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2005. Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York Education Ph.D. Cornell University M.S. Yale School of Forestry Dr. Uriarte’s research focuses on tropical forest dynamics and landscape ecology. Ecologist Profile When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential…

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Dr. Barbara Abraham

Barbara Abraham, Of Spiders and Bees

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…

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Dr. Saran Twombly

Saran Twombly, NSF Program Director

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…

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Portrait of Dr. Robin Kimmerer in a red blouse on a blue background.

Robin W. Kimmerer, Ecology and Culture

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…

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