Nancy Knowlton | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
Spouse | Jeremy Jackson (m. 1983) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Leopold Leadership Fellow (1999); Benchley Award for Science (2009); Heinz Award with special focus on the environment (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Coral reef biologist |
Institutions |
University of California, San Diego Smithsonian Institution |
Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science [1] at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. She was a professor at Yale University, then joined the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. [2]
She is an adjunct professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [3] While at Scripps, Knowlton also founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 1999 [2] and was elected to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008. She also serves as one of three co-chairs for the coral reef Census of Marine Life.
She is the author of the book Citizens of the Sea which was published by National Geographic in 2010 [4] to celebrate the end of the Census of Marine Life. In 2011, Knowlton received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment. [5] Knowlton was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013. [6]