Summary
Claire Kremen is an American conservation biologist. She is a professor of conservation biology at the University of British Columbia, having formerly worked at the University of California, Berkeley, where she remains professor emerita.
Claire Kremen | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | BS, biology, 1982, Stanford University PhD, 1987, Duke University |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | biologist |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
| Thesis | Metamorphosis of the butterfly, Precis coenia, (Nymphalidae): commitment of the imaginal disks and epidermis to pupal development (1987) |
Early life and education edit
Kremen graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology in 1982, and from Duke University with a PhD in Zoology in 1987.[1]
Career edit
Upon completing her PhD, Kremen spent 10 years working for nonprofit organizations in conservation biology.[2] She studied the impacts of Deforestation in Madagascar, on species distributions with a Web-based biodiversity database.[3] Kremen eventually returned to North American and accepted a faculty position at Princeton University for four years before becoming a professor of environmental science, policy and management at University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).[2]
During her early tenure at UC Berkeley, Kremen also served as a member on the Committee on Status of Pollinators where she led the first global study on crop production that is reliant upon animal pollination.[4] In recognition of her research, she was named a 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program, which came with an unrestricted $500,000 award for the next five years.[3] In the same year, Kremen was also awarded a Hellman Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for her project "How does Biological Diversity Promote Ecosystem Services: a Mechanistic Study of Almond Crop Pollination in a Changing California Landscape."[5] As an associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, Kremen led a study in 2011 which concluded that farmers could become more cost-efficient if they relied less on renting honey bees.[6] In recognition of her academic achievements, Kremen was elected a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences in 2013[7] and appointed Editor in Chief of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.[8]
In 2019, Kremen left UC Berkeley to become one of the first University of British Columbia (UBC) President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity Studies at the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.[9] While serving in this role, she was awarded an honorary degree from the American Museum of Natural History in "recognition of her extraordinary contributions to science, education and society."[10] In 2020, Kremen was the recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize for "exploring the way to a sustainable world."[11]
References edit
- ^ "Claire Kremen". zoology.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ a b Dinolfo, Adrianna (April 24, 2015). "Interview: Claire Kremen, conservation biologist". dailycal.org. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ a b Yang, Sarah (September 24, 2007). "Claire Kremen, UC Berkeley conservation biologist, wins MacArthur 'genius' fellowship". berkeley.edu. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Yang, Sarah (October 25, 2006). "Pollinators help one-third of world's crop production, says new study". berkeley.edu. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ "Claire Kremen". hellmanfellows.org. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Tam, Jonathan (June 22, 2011). "Study encourages farmers to rely less on rented bees". dailycal.org. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Tuan, Lydia (October 15, 2013). "4 UC Berkeley faculty members elected fellows at the California Academy of Sciences". dailycal.org. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
- ^ "Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems welcomes new Field Chief Editor". frontiersin.org. March 12, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ "UBC IRES Welcomes Dr. Claire Kremen!". ires.ubc.ca. 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Balma, Chris (September 26, 2019). "UBC ecologist honored by American Museum of Natural History". science.ubc.ca. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Fawcett-Atkinson, Marc (November 15, 2020). "Pollinators key to sustainability, says Claire Kremen, 2020 Volvo". Retrieved November 15, 2020.
External links edit
Claire Kremen publications indexed by Google Scholar