Kate Jones (scientist)

Kate Jones
Born	Katherine Elizabeth Jones 1972 (age 43–44)
Other names	Cocktail Kate[1]
Fields	Biodiversity Macroecology Evolution Conservation[2]
Institutions	University College London
Alma mater	University of Leeds (BSc) University of Surrey (PhD)
Thesis	Evolution of bat life-histories (1998)
Doctoral students	Henry Ferguson-Gow Liz Moorcroft[3] Tim Lucas[4]
Known for	www.batdetective.org
Website www.katejones.org

Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She holds the Chair in Ecology and Biodiversity jointly at University College London and the Zoological Society of London,^[3] and she is chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.^[5]

Education

Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds in 1993 and with a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey in 1998.^[3][6]

Research

Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally.^[7] She won a 2008 Philip Leverhulme Award in Zoology (given to "outstanding young scholars … whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise") and holds a number of scientific advisory board positions for national and international conservation charities.^[8]

Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound.^[9][10]

Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project.^{[1][11][12][13]} According to Google Scholar^[2] and Scopus^[14] her most cited papers have been published in Science^[15] and Nature.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Jones says that Charles Darwin is "allegedly" her 8th cousin 6 times removed.^[20][21] This implies that her 13 times great-grandfather was Darwin's 7 times great-grandfather.^[22]

Personal life

Jones is also known for her love of cocktails, which she discussed with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.^{[23][24][25][26]}

References

1. "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Kate Jones". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
2. Kate Jones's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
3. "Kate Jones". Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research. University College Londond. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
4. "A generalised random encounter model for estimating animal density with remote sensor data". Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6: 500–509. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12346.
5. "Board of Trustees – Bat Conservation Trust". Bats.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
6. Jones, Katherine Elizabeth. (1998). Evolution of bat life-histories. (PhD thesis). University of Surrey. OCLC 556734183.
7. "Science Weekly podcast: The dawn of an era of de-extinction | Science". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
8. "Awards Made in 2008" (PDF). Leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
9. "Dr Kate E. Jones | Independent Blogs". Blogs.independent.co.uk. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
10. "Bat Detective | A Zooniverse Project Blog". Blog.batdetective.org. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
11. "Professor Kate Jones". Invisibledust.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
12. "Prof Kate Jones's and the Bat Detective project launched plus interview on BBC World". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
13. "Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives' – BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
14. Kate Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
15. Cardillo, M.; Mace, G. M.; Jones, K. E.; Bielby, J; Bininda-Emonds, O. R.; Sechrest, W; Orme, C. D.; Purvis, A (2005). "Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species". Science 309 (5738): 1239–41. Bibcode:2005Sci...309.1239C. doi:10.1126/science.1116030. PMID 16037416.
16. Keesing, Felicia; Belden, Lisa K.; Daszak, Peter; Dobson, Andrew; Harvell, C. Drew; Holt, Robert D.; Hudson, Peter; Jolles, Anna; Jones, Kate E.; Mitchell, Charles E.; Myers, Samuel S.; Bogich, Tiffany; Ostfeld, Richard S. (2010). "Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases". Nature 468 (7324): 647–52. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..647K. doi:10.1038/nature09575. PMID 21124449.
17. Bininda-Emonds, O.; Cardillo, M.; Jones, K.; MacPhee, R.; Beck, R.; Grenyer, R.; Price, S.; Vos, R.; Gittleman, J.; Purvis, A. (2007). "The delayed rise of present-day mammals". Nature 446 (7135): 507–512. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..507B. doi:10.1038/nature05634. PMID 17392779.
18. Jones, Kate E.; Patel, Nikkita G.; Levy, Marc A.; Storeygard, Adam; Balk, Deborah; Gittleman, John L.; Daszak, Peter (2008). "Global trends in emerging infectious diseases". Nature 451 (7181): 990–3. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..990J. doi:10.1038/nature06536. PMID 18288193.
19. Grenyer, Richard; Orme, C. David L.; Jackson, Sarah F.; Thomas, Gavin H.; Davies, Richard G.; Davies, T. Jonathan; Jones, Kate E.; Olson, Valerie A.; Ridgely, Robert S.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ding, Tzung-Su; Bennett, Peter M.; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gittleman, John L.; Owens, Ian P. F. (2006). "Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates". Nature 444 (7115): 93–6. Bibcode:2006Natur.444...93G. doi:10.1038/nature05237. PMID 17080090.
20. "Iris View Profile". Iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
21. "Kate Jones – Biodiversity Modelling Research Group | University College London and The Zoological Society of London". Katejones.org. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
22. "Cousin relationships". Brenda Paternoster. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
23. Kate Jones on Twitter
24. "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Kate Jones". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
25. "Why more women should consider a career in science | Guardian Careers". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
26. "Becoming A Bat Detective – Planet Earth Online – Professor Kate Jones, University College London & Charlotte Walters, Zoological Society Of London". Thenakedscientists.com. 2012-12-02. Retrieved 2015-06-25.