Mireya Correa Explained

Mireya Correa
Birth Date:6 February 1940
Birth Place:Panama
Death Place:Panama
Fields:Botany
Workplaces:Director of the Herbarium at the University of Panama
Alma Mater:University of Panama, Duke University

Mireya Dorotea Correa Arroyo[1] (February 6, 1940 November 22, 2022) was a Panamanian botanist and plant taxonomist known for her work with the flora of Panama.[2]

Career

Correa graduated from the University of Panama with a degree in biology and chemistry in 1963. She received a master's degree in botany from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1967. Her area of expertise was the systematic study of vascular plants with emphasis of the flora of Panama. She was a professor at the University of Panama and pioneered formal botanical studies in Panama. She became a scientific collaborator at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in 1987.[2] [3]

She was the Director of the Herbarium at the University of Panama, a research and teaching facility of the Natural Science Faculty from the time of its founding in 1968. The collection contains more than seventy thousand specimens. It has been part of the Network of Mesoamerican and Caribbean Herbaria since 1995.[4] She created an online database that digitized 12,000 of the specimens and records of the herbarium.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Ortega . Eliened. 7 December 2022. Despiden a la primera botánica panameña. Metro Libre. Cultura . es. 15 February 2023.
  2. Web site: Currículum Vítae. Mireya D. Correa A.. CFA. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170901025559/http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hea/sws/docs/Correa2012CV.pdf. 1 September 2017. 16 July 2013.
  3. Web site: . 7 June 2013. Panama's SENACYT honors three STRI scientists. STRI News. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 1–4. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211014031156/https://stri-sites.si.edu/sites/strinews/PDFs/STRINews_Jun07_2013.pdf. 14 October 2021. 14 October 2021.
  4. Web site: Edgardo I. Garrido-Pérez. Mireya Correa: un reconocimiento muy bien justificado. es. 16 July 2013. Acta Biológica Panamensis. Vol. 1, 107. COBIOPA. Colegio de Biólogos de Panamá. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923205219/http://www.cobiopa.org/Mireya%20Correa%20107.pdf. 23 September 2015.
  5. News: . 7 May 2008. Smithsonian scientist receives 2008 Medal for Excellence in tropical botany. EurekAlert! (www.eurekalert.org). AAAS. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211014035142/https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/697571. 14 October 2021. 14 October 2021.
  6. Web site: Dorr . L.J.. 26 April 2008. José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany. Smithsonian NMNH Department of Botany (botany.si.edu). Smithsonian Institution. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130822230820/http://botany.si.edu/cuatrecasas/medal2008.cfm. 22 August 2013. 16 July 2013.
  7. Web site: Kapsalis . Effie. Effie Kapsalis. 11 March 2015. Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mireya Correa. Smithsonian Institution Archives (siarchives.si.edu). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210304121251/https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/women-science-wednesday-dr-mireya-correa. 4 March 2021. 14 October 2021.

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