Karin Limburg

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Karin Limburg is a professor in the department of Environmental and Forest Biology at SUNY-ESF.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

She graduated with a double AB degree in Ecology and Conservation from Vassar College, and then studied Systems Ecology under Howard T. Odum at the University of Florida, Gainesville for her MS degree. She completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Simon Levin at Cornell University in 1994.[3] A broadly trained ecologist, she has spent most of her career inferring water chemistry and fish ecology from careful examination of fish otoliths.[4][5][6][7] Otoliths are small calcified structures that help fish to hear and balance,[8] and they make excellent subjects for sclerochronology.[9][10][11][12] Most recently, her studies have focused on the looming problem of the deoxygenation of the oceans as a result of global climate change.[13][14][15][16][17]

In addition to her studies of otoliths, early in her career, Limburg contributed to a now seminal study led by Robert Costanza that was one of the first to attempt to place a value on worldwide ecosystem services[18] that still continues to be frequently invoked in discussions of conservation biology.[19][20][21] In a later paper led by Limburg, she and her coauthors argued that economic decisions need to be made in light of an understanding of ecosystem dynamics, including the potential for nonlinearity.[22] Building upon the conceptual foundation of their earlier publications, in 2010 Limburg, Costanza, and Ida Kubiszewski edited the inaugural edition of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Ecological Economics Reviews.[23]

As of December 2019, Limburg has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles, and her work has been cited more than 32,000 times.[2] In 2010, SUNY-ESF honored Limburg with the "Exemplary Researcher award."[24] In 2018 she was one of the recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.[25]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  2. ^ a b "Karin Limburg - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  3. ^ "Limburg CV.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  4. ^ Coin, Glenn (2014-06-01). "Yes, fish have ears -- and they can tell a fish's life story, ESF prof finds". syracuse. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  5. ^ "SUNY-ESF professor works to find the age of cod in the Baltic Sea". The Daily Orange - The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York. 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  6. ^ "Fish Can Detect Marine 'Dead Zones'". newswise.com. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  7. ^ "Analysis of chemicals in Amazonian fish ear-stones may help conservation efforts". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  8. ^ "Otolith Gallery". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  9. ^ By Beth Matta and Thomas Helser. "NOAA Fisheries Age & Growth Program: Otolith Sclerochronology Reveals Effects of Climate on Growth of Pacific Ocean Perch". afsc.noaa.gov/. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  10. ^ Limburg, Karin E.; Wuenschel, Mark J.; Hüssy, Karin; Heimbrand, Yvette; Samson, Melvin (2018-10-02). "Making the Otolith Magnesium Chemical Calendar-Clock Tick: Plausible Mechanism and Empirical Evidence". Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture. 26 (4): 479–493. doi:10.1080/23308249.2018.1458817. ISSN 2330-8249. S2CID 90617487.
  11. ^ Walther, B. D.; Limburg, K. E.; Jones, C. M.; Schaffler, J. J. (2017). "Frontiers in otolith chemistry: insights, advances and applications". Journal of Fish Biology. 90 (2): 473–479. doi:10.1111/jfb.13266. PMID 28220478.
  12. ^ Fisheries, NOAA (2019-11-18). "Will Old Bones Tell Tales? | NOAA Fisheries". NOAA. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  13. ^ "The oceans are suffocating: Climate change is causing low oxygen levels". Salon. 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  14. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1923965 - Collaborative Research: Shifting the Hypoxia Paradigm - New Directions to Explore the Spread and Impacts of Ocean/Great Lakes Deoxygenation". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  15. ^ Breitburg, Denise; Levin, Lisa A.; Oschlies, Andreas; Grégoire, Marilaure; Chavez, Francisco P.; Conley, Daniel J.; Garçon, Véronique; Gilbert, Denis; Gutiérrez, Dimitri; Isensee, Kirsten; Jacinto, Gil S. (2018-01-05). "Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters". Science. 359 (6371): eaam7240. Bibcode:2018Sci...359M7240B. doi:10.1126/science.aam7240. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29301986.
  16. ^ Limburg, Karin E.; Walther, Benjamin D.; Lu, Zunli; Jackman, George; Mohan, John; Walther, Yvonne; Nissling, Anders; Weber, Peter K.; Schmitt, Axel K. (2015-01-01). "In search of the dead zone: Use of otoliths for tracking fish exposure to hypoxia". Journal of Marine Systems. Biogeochemistry-ecosystem interaction on changing continental margins in the Anthropocene. 141: 167–178. Bibcode:2015JMS...141..167L. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.02.014. ISSN 0924-7963.
  17. ^ Limburg, K. E.; Breitburg, D.; Levin, L. A. (2017-11-01). "Ocean deoxygenation - a climate-related problem". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 15 (9): 479. doi:10.1002/fee.1728. ISSN 1540-9295.
  18. ^ Costanza, Robert; d'Arge, Ralph; de Groot, Rudolf; Farber, Stephen; Grasso, Monica; Hannon, Bruce; Limburg, Karin; Naeem, Shahid; O'Neill, Robert V.; Paruelo, Jose; Raskin, Robert G. (1997). "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital". Nature. 387 (6630): 253–260. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..253C. doi:10.1038/387253a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 672256.
  19. ^ Bhowmick, Soumya. "Greening the GDP: Valuing natural capital in India". ORF. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  20. ^ "The state of the market for ecosystem services". Mongabay Environmental News. 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  21. ^ "Getting the Price Right". A\J – Canada's Environmental Voice. 2015-01-15. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  22. ^ Limburg, Karin E; O'Neill, Robert V; Costanza, Robert; Farber, Stephen (2002-06-01). "Complex systems and valuation". Ecological Economics. 41 (3): 409–420. doi:10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00090-3. ISSN 0921-8009.
  23. ^ "Ecological Economics Reviews". New York Academy of Sciences. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  24. ^ Communications, ESF Office of. "Limburg Honored as Exemplary Researcher". SUNY-ESF. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  25. ^ Communications, ESF Office of. "ESF Staff, Faculty Honored by SUNY Chancellor". SUNY-ESF. Retrieved 2019-12-01.

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