Affidivation:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF Directorate:

BIO

Gender:

F

Award Year:

2003

Citation:

For combining the tools of several fields of biology with new technology to reconstruct the history of the many varieties of zooplankton and to explore the factors contributing to their diversity or extinction. Her classes for non-scientists, her classroom manual for elementary and middle school students, and her outdoor field guide for students and their families, demonstrate outstanding public outreach.