Sara Iverson

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Sara Iverson
Alma materDuke University
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Life Sciences Division, Academy of Science
Scientific career
Fieldsanimal physiological and biochemical mechanism, biology and ecology of marine vertebrates, marine animal tagging and tracking

Sara Iverson is a professor of biology at Dalhousie University, and the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). [1]

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Iverson was selected by Mattel Inc. and National Geographic as an influential Canadian scientist and role model for Barbie's You Can Be Anything campaign as part of the doll's 60th anniversary. This effort is aimed at helping young girls can have a career in a scientific fields where women have historically been underrepresented. [2]

Early life and education

Iverson was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. [3] She has a bachelors of science in Zoology from Duke University, 1979. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Maryland, College Park MD in Nutritional Sciences. She began her career as a Graduate Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Wuppertal, West Germany. She held teaching positions and research positions at University of Maryland, Oregon State University, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC; Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. Iverson joined the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University.in 1994 as an Assistant Professor and rose to her current position as Professor in 2004. Iverson was selected as the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network Canada, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2008 and is in that role today. She is also a professor of biology in Affiliate Professor, Institute of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks. [3]

Career and research

Iverson's research interests are focused on how animals adapt to and exploit their environments and in the physiological and biochemical mechanisms which constrain or provide opportunities for them to do so. Her research program is inter-disciplinary, combining comparative physiology and ecology with lipid biochemistry and metabolism in vertebrates, and integrating laboratory and field studies on fundamental issues of interest to both zoological and medical communities, as and which also have implications for the conservation and management of mammal, seabird, and fish populations. Iverson supervises and mentors a number of graduate students both as a Professor and through her leadership within OTN. [4]

Honors and awards

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Sara J. Iverson". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  2. ↑ "Dalhousie biologist chosen as mentor for Barbie's 60th anniversary You Can Be Anything campaign". Global News. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  3. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae | Lab of Sara Iverson" . Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  4. ↑ "People | Lab of Sara Iverson" . Retrieved 2021-07-11.
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  7. ↑ "Conservation Achievement Award – AFS Fisheries Management Section" . Retrieved 2021-07-11.
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