Kimmerer, Robin Wall

LC control no.	n 2002160074
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kimmerer, Robin Wall *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 1953- Kimmerer, Robin W., 1953- Kimmerer, R. W. (Robin Wall), 1953- Kimmerer, Robin, 1953-
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Syracuse (N.Y.) Madison (Wis.) Lexington (Ky.) Danville (Ky.)
Address	rkimmer@esf.edu
Birth date	1953
Place of birth	New York (State)
Field of activity	Environmental sciences Botany Plant ecology Forest ecology Mosses Indigenous peoples
Affiliation	State University of New York Centre College (Danville, Ky. : 1918- ) Transylvania University University of Wisconsin--Madison State University of New York Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma
Profession or occupation	Authors Plant ecologists College teachers University and college faculty members
Found in	Gathering moss, 2003: CIP t.p. (Robin Wall Kimmerer) Wikipedia, Aug. 13, 2019 (Robin Wall Kimmerer (also credited as Robin W. Kimmerer) (born 1953) is Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and books.) Wikipedia, viewed April 8, 2022: Robin Wall Kimmerer (Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) is an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). She is the author of numerous scientific articles, and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013). She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and combines her heritage with her scientific and environmental passions. Robin Wall Kimmerer was born in 1953 in the open country of upstate New York to Robert and Patricia Wall. Kimmerer remained near home for college, attending ESF and receiving a bachelor's degree in botany in 1975. She spent two years working for Bausch & Lomb as a microbiologist. Kimmerer then moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning her master's degree in botany there in 1979, followed by her PhD in plant ecology in 1983. It was while studying forest ecology as part of her degree program, that she first learnt about mosses, which became the scientific focus of her career. From Wisconsin, Kimmerer moved to Kentucky, where she briefly taught at Transylvania University in Lexington before moving to Danville, Kentucky where she taught biology, botany, and ecology at Centre College. Kimmerer received tenure at Centre College. In 1993, Kimmerer returned home to upstate New York and her alma mater, ESF, where she currently teaches.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer> SUNY ESF (website), viewed April 8, 2022: Robin W. Kimmerer (Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. rkimmer@esf.edu. Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She serves as the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration and the ecology of mosses. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.) <https://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/> Canadiana, July 25, 2022 (access point: Kimmerer, Robin Wall)
National bib agency no.	1039F6130E
Associated language	eng
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