Felicia Keesing Explained

Felicia Keesing
Birth Date:24 January 1966
Birth Place:Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Occupation:Biologist
Workplaces:Bard College

Felicia Keesing is an ecologist and the David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Chair of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.[1]

Education

Keesing received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.

Research

Keesing's research focuses on the consequences of human impacts, particularly biodiversity loss, for ecological communities. In Kenya, she has studied how the absence of large mammals like giraffes and elephants affects savanna ecology.[2] [3] She and Richard Ostfeld pioneered research on the ecology of Lyme disease, in particular how human risk for Lyme disease is affected by forest fragmentation and the loss of biodiversity.[4] She and Ostfeld also developed core ideas about the general relationship between biodiversity loss and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases,[5] and a conceptual model of the effects of pulsed resources on ecological communities.[6]

From 2016 to 2021, she and Ostfeld co-directed the Tick Project, a study to test whether environmental interventions could prevent Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in residential neighborhoods of Dutchess County, New York.[7]

Keesing's recent research in Kenya focuses on the ecological, economic, and social consequences of managing land in Laikipia County, Kenya for livestock, wildlife, or both.[8]

In 2009, she served on the steering committee for the Vision and Change[9] initiative to reform the teaching of undergraduate biology, and from 2012 to 2017, with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, she directed a project on science literacy for college students. In 2017, she led the development of the curriculum for the Citizen Science program[10] at Bard College.

Awards and recognition

Keesing received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1999. She is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2019)[11] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021).[12] In 2022, she was awarded the International Cosmos Prize.[13] Keesing was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.[14]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Felicia Keesing .
  2. Keesing. Felicia . Cryptic consumers and the ecology of an African savanna. . . 2000 . 50 . 3 . 205–215. 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0205:CCATEO]2.3.CO;2 . 53000884 . free .
  3. Keesing. Felicia . Young. Truman P.. Cascading consequences of the loss of large mammals in an African savanna. . . 2014 . 64 . 6 . 487–495. 10.1093/biosci/biu059 . free .
  4. Keesing. Felicia . Ostfeld. Richard S.. Biodiversity series: the function of biodiversity in the ecology of vector-borne zoonotic diseases. . . 2000 . 78 . 12 . 2061–2078. 10.1139/z00-172 .
  5. Keesing. Felicia . Ostfeld. Richard S.. Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases. . . 2021 . 118 . 17 . e2023540118. 10.1073/pnas.2023540118 . 33820825 . 8092607 . 2021PNAS..11823540K . free .
  6. Keesing. Felicia . Ostfeld. Richard S.. Pulsed resources and community dynamics of consumers in terrestrial ecosystems. . . 2000 . 15 . 6 . 232–237. 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01862-0 . 10802548 .
  7. Keesing . F. . Mowry . S. . Bremer . W. . Duerr . S. . Evans Jr. . A.S. . Fischhoff . I. . Hinckley . A.F. . Hook . S.A. . Keating . F. . Pendleton . J. . Pfister . A. . Teator . M. . Ostfeld . R.S. . Effects of Tick-Control Interventions on Tick Abundance, Human Encounters with Ticks, and Incidence of Tickborne Diseases in Residential Neighborhoods. . . 2022 . 28 . 5 . 957–966. 10.3201/eid2805.211146 . 35447066 . 9045441 .
  8. Keesing . F. . Ostfeld . R.S. . Okanga . S. . Huckett . S. . Bayles . B.R. . Chaplin-Kramer . R. . Fredericks . L.P. . Hedlund . T. . Kowal . V. . Tallis . H. . Warui . C.M. . Wood . S.A. . Allan . B.F. . Consequences of integrating livestock and wildlife in an African savanna. . . 2018 . 1 . 10 . 566–573. 10.1038/s41893-018-0149-2 . 2018NatSu...1..566K . 134201534 .
  9. Web site: Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education » Advisory Board.
  10. Web site: Bard Biology Professor Felicia Keesing Among Leading Scientists Featured in Sir David Attenborough's Documentary EXTINCTION – THE FACTS, Which Debuts on PBS March 31. Bard Public. Relations. www.bard.edu.
  11. Web site: ESA Fellows – the Ecological Society of America .
  12. Web site: AAAS Honorary Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science .
  13. Web site: International Cosmos Prizewinners.
  14. Web site: All Fellows – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation… . 2024-06-17 . en.

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