Kate Jones (scientist)

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Kate Jones
Born
Katherine Elizabeth Jones

1972 (age 50–51)
Other namesCocktail Kate [1]
Alma mater
Known for Bat Detective
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University College London
Thesis Evolution of bat life-histories  (1998)
Website www.katejones.org

Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Director of the Biodiversity Modelling Research Group, at University College London. [3] She is a past chair of the Bat Conservation Trust. [4] [5]

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Education

Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds in 1993 and with a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey in 1998. [3] [6]

Research

Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally. [7] She won a 2008 Philip Leverhulme Award in Zoology (given to "outstanding young scholars … whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise") and holds a number of scientific advisory board positions for national and international conservation charities. [8]

Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound. [9] [10]

Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project. [1] [11] [12] [13] [14] According to Google Scholar [2] and Scopus [15] her most cited papers have been published in Science [16] and Nature . [17] [18] [19] [20]

Honours and awards

Jones was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2011. In 2022 she was awarded the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology by the Zoological Society of London [21] and the Marsh Ecology Award from the British Ecological Society. [22]

Personal life

Jones is also known for her love of cocktails, which she discussed with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific . [1]

In a Guardian feature on "Why more women should consider a career in science", Jones said:

Being a scientist helps me understand the amazing diversity and evolution of life and gives me freedom to answer questions that most interest me. This amazing job has taken me all over the world meeting people and wildlife I only imagined. Why on earth would you want to do anything else? [23]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Kate Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
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  4. ↑ "Board of Trustees – Bat Conservation Trust". Bats.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  5. ↑ "Changes at the Bat Conservation Trust - News". Bat Conservation Trust. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Jones, Katherine Elizabeth. (1998). Evolution of bat life-histories (PhD thesis). University of Surrey. OCLC   556734183.
  7. ↑ Ruz, Presented by Camila; Sample, Ian (31 March 2013). "Science Weekly podcast: The dawn of an era of de-extinction | Science". The Guardian. Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.{{cite news}}: Missing |author2= (help)
  8. ↑ "Awards Made in 2008" (PDF). Leverhulme.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
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  13. ↑ "Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives' – BBC News". BBC News. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
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  15. ↑ Kate Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  16. ↑ Cardillo, M.; Mace, G. M.; Jones, K. E.; Bielby, J; Bininda-Emonds, O. R.; Sechrest, W; Orme, C. D.; Purvis, A (2005). "Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species". Science. 309 (5738): 1239–41. Bibcode:2005Sci...309.1239C. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.327.7340 . doi:10.1126/science.1116030. PMID   16037416. S2CID   378183.
  17. ↑ Keesing, Felicia; Belden, Lisa K.; Daszak, Peter; Dobson, Andrew; Harvell, C. Drew; Holt, Robert D.; Hudson, Peter; Jolles, Anna; Jones, Kate E.; Mitchell, Charles E.; Myers, Samuel S.; Bogich, Tiffany; Ostfeld, Richard S. (2010). "Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases". Nature. 468 (7324): 647–52. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..647K. doi:10.1038/nature09575. PMC   7094913 . PMID   21124449.
  18. ↑ Bininda-Emonds, O.; Cardillo, M.; Jones, K.; MacPhee, R.; Beck, R.; Grenyer, R.; Price, S.; Vos, R.; Gittleman, J.; Purvis, A. (2007). "The delayed rise of present-day mammals". Nature. 446 (7135): 507–512. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..507B. doi:10.1038/nature05634. PMID   17392779. S2CID   4314965.
  19. ↑ Jones, Kate E.; Patel, Nikkita G.; Levy, Marc A.; Storeygard, Adam; Balk, Deborah; Gittleman, John L.; Daszak, Peter (2008). "Global trends in emerging infectious diseases". Nature. 451 (7181): 990–3. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..990J. doi:10.1038/nature06536. PMC   5960580 . PMID   18288193.
  20. ↑ Grenyer, Richard; Orme, C. David L.; Jackson, Sarah F.; Thomas, Gavin H.; Davies, Richard G.; Davies, T. Jonathan; Jones, Kate E.; Olson, Valerie A.; Ridgely, Robert S.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ding, Tzung-Su; Bennett, Peter M.; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gittleman, John L.; Owens, Ian P. F. (2006). "Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates". Nature. 444 (7115): 93–6. Bibcode:2006Natur.444...93G. doi:10.1038/nature05237. PMID   17080090. S2CID   4391288.
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  22. ↑ "British Ecological Society announces 2022 award winners". 2 September 2022.
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