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Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science[1] at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Nancy Knowlton | |
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Nancy Knowlton at World Oceans Day in 2015 | |
| 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 |
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]
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