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One of this year's 24 fellows announced by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation is NAPPC member Claire Kremen. <br><br>
From the MacArthur Foundation web site:<br><br>
<b>Claire Kremen<br>
</b>Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and
Management<br>
University of California / Berkeley<br>
Berkeley, California<br>
Born: 1960<br><br>
Claire Kremen is a conservation biologist whose applied research advances
the fields of ecology, biodiversity, and agriculture. As a leader
of a conservation planning initiative in Madagascar, Kremen has used
adaptive management and predictive mapping to design and establish
protected and multiple-use areas in Masoala National Park, Madagascar’s
largest nature reserve. Her current work in Madagascar includes
forecasting deforestation and its impact on species distribution and
development of a web-based repository that will provide researchers with
up-to-date biodiversity data and analytical tools needed for conservation
planning and monitoring. In other research in the U.S., at the
intersection of agriculture and biodiversity, Kremen explores the
behavior of diverse native pollinators (primarily bees) and the
environments that sustain them. By analyzing the behavior patterns
of bees, Kremen investigates an often overlooked but critical component
of the global food web, as more than half of all flowering agricultural
crops involve natural pollinators. She measures several key
variables, including geographic distribution of natural habitats, the
diversity of insect pollinators, and the delivery of pollination
services. Her results indicate that the ability of a community of
native bees to pollinate farm crops adequately is dependent on their
access to natural habitats, underscoring the importance of restoring and
protecting natural environments on farms. Through new methods that
improve our ability to measure, manage, and conserve natural systems
domestically and internationally, Kremen demonstrates the dependence of
sustainable agroecology on effective environmental preservation.<br><br>
Claire Kremen received a B.Sc. (1982) from Stanford University and a
Ph.D. (1987) from Duke University. She is an assistant professor in
the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the
University of California, Berkeley. From 2001 to 2005, she was an
assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
at Princeton University. Her papers have been published in such
journals as <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA</i>,
<i>Science</i>, <i>Conservation Biology</i>, and <i>Ecology
Letters</i>.<br>
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