Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco ( born December 4, 1947 in Denver, Colorado) is an American marine biologist.
Life and work
Jane Lubchenco studied biology at Colorado College, where she graduated with a bachelor in 1969. Your master's degree in zoology she made in 1971 at the University of Washington. She then moved to Harvard University, where she was in 1975 a doctorate in ecology. After that, she taught first two years to 1977 at Harvard University and then received a teaching position at Oregon State University, where she held a professorship in Marine Ecology 1977-2009.
She is married to the marine ecologists Bruce amount. The couple has a son, Duncan amount Lubchenco, who works at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
In the 1990s she was two long periods adviser to President Bill Clinton at the National Science Board. In 1993, she received a $ 500,000 MacArthur Fellowship doped. In addition, she won a Pew Fellowship, several awards and her were awarded eight honorary doctorates. In 2002 she won the Heinz Award in the Environment and the 2003 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. In 1997 she became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In December 2008, President Barack Obama announced to appoint the chairman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In this post, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 19, 2009. It is thus ex officio Secretary of State at the Department of Commerce ( Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere ).
Lubchenco has made repeatedly in the past on the need for government action to curb global warming attentive and criticized the administration of President George W. Bush for an irreverent approach to the science.