Nina J. Karnovsky is an American ecologist and ornithologist. [1] She is the Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1]
Nina J. Karnovsky is an American ecologist and ornithologist. [1] She is the Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1]
Karnovsky attended Wesleyan University. She loved the liberal arts and the philosophy of science offerings there but disliked science courses and petitioned out of her required ones. [2] She ended up majoring in science and society. [2] After college, she taught children at the Point Blue Bird Observatory, a field station at Point Reyes. [2] She earned a master's degree at Montana State University, where she studied Antarctic birds, and a doctorate at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied Arctic birds. [1] [2]
Karnovsky sought to teach smaller classes where she could get to know her students better, [2] and began teaching at Pomona College in 2004 as a terrestrial biologist. [1] In 2022, she was a recipient of Pomona College's Wig Distinguished Professor awards. [3]
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