Mary Eleanor Power

Mary Eleanor Power

Power at Fort Churchill, Manitoba (August 2011)
Born (1949-08-22) August 22, 1949
Residence Berkeley, CA
Citizenship US Citizen
Fields Ecology: food webs
Education University of Washington (Ph.D)
Boston University Marine Program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts (M.S.)
Brown University (B.A)
Thesis The grazing ecology of armored catfish in a Panamanian stream
Notable awards Member, National Academy of Sciences (Elected 2012)
Honorary doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden (2011)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2007)
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (elected 2005)
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (2005)
Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists (2004)
John and Margaret Gompertz Chair in Integrative Biology (2002-2007)
Spouse William Dietrich

Mary Eleanor Power, professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is an American ecologist. In addition to being a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences, she holds an honorary doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden, and is a recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (2005) and the Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists (2004).[1] She is a past president of the Ecological Society of America (2009–10) and the American Society of Naturalists (2005-2006).[2]

Power's research speciality is in river food web ecology. Her study of armored catfish was part of the early research on ideal free distribution in the wild.

Biography

Power earned her Ph.D in Zoology from the University of Washington[2] in 1981 and has been professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley since 1987.[2] She has also been a faculty manager of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Mendocino County[2] since 1989.

Professional work

Power has worked primarily on food web, landscape and community ecology in the Eel River of California.[3] Her research primarily focuses on species attributions influence changes on food webs as well as species interactions in different environmental regimes, with relevance to Biogeomorphology and food web alterations.[3]

Major publications[4]

References

  1. Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Power Lab: Mary Power, Curriculum Vitae". berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Welcome to the Power Lab". berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  4. "Welcome to the Power Lab". berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 November 2015.

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