Kathleen Treseder

Kathleen Kay Treseder is an American ecologist who specializes in the interplay between global warming and climate change and fungal ecology. She is currently a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[1] the American Academy of Microbiology,[2] and the Ecological Society of America.[3]

As an undergraduate she co-authored a research paper[4] that was published in Nature and was featured on the cover of the issue. Since then, Treseder has published over 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been cited over 11,000 times.[5]

Education and academic appointments

Treseder graduated from the University of Utah in 1994 with an Honors Bachelors of Science in biology with a minor in chemistry. She obtained her Ph.D. in biological sciences form Stanford University in 1999. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Riverside, from 1999 to 2000. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2003, before moving to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine in 2003. She became an associate professor in 2006, and a full professor in 2011.

Other honors and awards

Treseder was a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Irvine from 2012 to 2015. In 2015, she was chosen as a United States Representative for the publication "Young Women Scientists: A Bright Future for the Americas[6]", 2015, InterAmerica Network of Academies of Sciences

References
  1. Science, American Association for the Advancement of (2017-11-24). "2017 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. 358 (6366): 1011–1014. Bibcode:2017Sci...358.1011.. doi:10.1126/science.358.6366.1011. ISSN 0036-8075.
  2. Science (2017-11-24). "2017 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. 358 (6366): 1011–1014. Bibcode:2017Sci...358.1011.. doi:10.1126/science.358.6366.1011. ISSN 0036-8075.
  3. "ESA Fellows | Ecological Society of America". Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  4. Treseder, Kathleen K.; Davidson, Diane W.; Ehleringer, James R. (May 1995). "Absorption of ant-provided carbon dioxide and nitrogen by a tropical epiphyte". Nature. 375 (6527): 137–139. Bibcode:1995Natur.375..137T. doi:10.1038/375137a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4232136.
  5. "Kathleen K. Treseder - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  6. "Young Women Scientists - A bright future for the Americas: Discover why and how these young women decided to become scientists". IAP. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
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