Charlotte Kipling

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Charlotte Kipling
Born
Charlotte Harrison

7 June 1918
Died9 August 1992 (1992-08-10) (aged 73)
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsIchthyology Statistics
InstitutionsFreshwater Biological Association, Institute of Biology, Royal Statistical Society

Charlotte Kipling was born on 7 June 1919 in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. She was a statistician and ichthyologist. Starting in 1941 she was employed by the British Navy as a cipher officer in Liverpool. She was associated with the Navy until 1946. In 1947 she was hired by the Freshwater Biological Association in Windermere, Cumbria. She collected data on the changes in the char, pike, and perch populations in the Windermere lake. She was a member of the Royal Statistical Society and the Institute of Biology. She died in 1992 in Millerground Windermere, Cumbria, England. [1]

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Education

Kipling attended Liverpool College, Juyton and St. Leonard School, St. Andrews before studying economics at Newnham College Cambridge from 1937-1940. [2] She studied at Newnham during a period where women were allowed to attend classes, but were not made full members of the university or granted degrees. This was changed in 1948. [3] There is evidence found in International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950, that would imply Kipling received an M.A. from Newnham in that same year. From 1946-1947 she studied statistics at University College, London before moving to Windermere. [2]

Scientific career

Kipling was hired as a statistician by the Freshwater Biological Association at Ferry House in 1947. [2] While in this position she extensively tracked the diminishing fish populations within the Windermere lake. She developed methodology to help track this data alongside Winifred E. Frost. These methodologies were used to help determine the most efficient ways to gather as much data as possible on the different species within the lake. [4] Most of this research was used within the "Windermere Perch and Pike Project" (Le Cren 2001), [5] which long-term data collected on the Windermere lake by Kipling and her colleagues was used to analyse the ways the different fish populations reacted to their changing environment, as well as the effects of overfishing. [2] The long term data conducted by Kipling was essential to this project and is cited extensively throughout. Most of her publications are similar long-term studies of freshwater fish populations within the Windermere lake (see below).

Selected publications

References

  1. "Ancestry - Sign In". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International women in science : a biographical dictionary to 1950. Internet Archive. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-1-57607-090-1.
  3. "History – Newnham College". www.newn.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. Le Cren, David (2001). "The Windermere Perch and Pike Project: a Historical Review". Freshwater Forum. 15: 3–34.
  5. http://aquaticcommons.org/4631/1/DLeCren.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]