Jennifer S. Powers is an American ecologist and full professor in the departments of ecology, evolution and behavior, and plant and microbial biology at the University of Minnesota. Powers' research has advanced the understanding of global change consequences, ecosystem ecology, restoration and conservation of tropical dry forests. She also has been very active on several editorial boards, and in 2019 became the editor-in-chief of Biotropica,[1] a scientific journal from the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).
Jennifer Powers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jennifer Sarah Powers |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Reed College (BA) Oregon State University (MS) Duke University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | William H. Schlesinger |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ecology |
| Sub-discipline | Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University University of Minnesota |
Education
editPowers received her B.A. in biology from Reed College in 1991. In 1995, she completed her Master of Science in the department of forest science at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. in biology at Duke University in 2001, working with William H. Schlesinger.
Career
editAfter completing her PhD, Powers did postdoctoral work at Stony Brook University and at the University of Minnesota. She has been working in tropical forest, with special interest in tropical dry forests, in Central and South America for over 20 years. Jennifer is also part of the 2ndFOR[2][3] research network on secondary forests, a founder of investigadores ACG (iACG),[4] a volunteer organization that promotes research in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in Costa Rica, a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and an officer of ATBC.[5]
Awards and honors
edit- 2009–2011. McKnight Land Grant Professor, University of Minnesota[6]
- 2009–2012. Institute on the Environment Resident Fellow[7]
- 2020. Ecological Society of America Fellow[8]
References
edit- ^ "Biotropica". onlinelibrary.wiley.com. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1744-7429. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ Poorter, Lourens (2016). "Secondary tropical forests sequester large amounts of carbon". WUR. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "2ndFOR (Secondary Forests)". ResearchGate. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "Mission". investigadoresACG.org. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "ATBC Leadership". tropicalbiology.org. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ^ "University of Minnesota: Scholars Walk". www.scholarswalk.umn.edu. Archived from the original on June 27, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "IonE Fellows". Institute on the Environment. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "ESA announces 2020 Fellows | EcoTone: News and Views on Ecological Science". Retrieved April 9, 2020.
External links
edit- The Powers Lab
- Night and Day in The Rainforest Archived August 9, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- "Editor Profiles: Professor Jennifer S Powers, Editor-in-Chief", Biotropica. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- Jennifer Sarah Powers publications indexed by Google Scholar