Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton
Nancy Knowlton at World Oceans Day in 2015
EducationPh.D. University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
SpouseJeremy Jackson (m. 1983)
Children2
AwardsLeopold Leadership Fellow (1999); Benchley Award for Science (2009); Heinz Award with special focus on the environment (2011): Darwin Medal (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsCoral reef biologist
WorkplacesUniversity of California, San Diego
Smithsonian Institution

Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Life

She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. She was a professor at Yale University, then joined the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

She is an adjunct professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. While at Scripps, Knowlton also founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 1999 and was elected to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008. She also serves as one of three co-chairs for the coral reef Census of Marine Life.

She is the author of the book Citizens of the Sea which was published by National Geographic in 2010 to celebrate the end of the Census of Marine Life. In 2011, Knowlton received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment. Knowlton was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013. She was awarded the Darwin Medal by the International Coral Reef Society in 2020.

Select publications

References

  1. ↑ "Biologist Nancy Knowlton Named Smithsonian's Sant Chair for Marine Science, June 8, 2007". si.edu.[permanent dead link]
  2. 1 2 "Fellows Directory - Leopold Leadership Program". leopoldleadership.stanford.edu.
  3. ↑ "KNOWLTON, NANCY - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego". sio.ucsd.edu.
  4. ↑ Knowlton, Nancy (2010-09-14). Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life (8/16/10 ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Geographic. ISBN 9781426206436.
  5. ↑ "Heinz Awards - Nancy Knowlton".
  6. ↑ "NAS Member Directory - Nancy Knowlton". nasonline.org. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Darwin Medal". International Coral Reef Society. Retrieved 2026-08-13.