Nina J. Karnovsky
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]
Early life and education[edit]
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]
Career[edit]
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]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Faculty page at Pomona College
- Karnovsky lab website
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