Angela Kepler

Angela Kay Kepler (born Brownscombe; born December 20, 1943 in Sydney ) is an Australian- born New Zealand scientist and author.

Life

Angela Kepler collected butterflies and beetles as a child in her native New Zealand. In 1963 she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch . From 1964 to 1966 she was a fellow of the East-West Center at the University of Hawai'i, where her interest in Hawaiian natural history and culture began. In 1966 she graduated with a Master of Science degree from the University of Hawaii . In 1971 she was at the Cornell University in New York for Ph.D. PhD. As a postdoc , she worked for a year at the University of Oxford .

From 1976 to 1988 she worked at the US Fish and Wildlife Field Station on Maui, participated in USFWS national forest bird studies and wrote books, scientific papers and magazine articles on Hawaiian wildlife and culture, with a longstanding interest in Hawaiian featherwork in particular.

Angela Kepler has led ecology and nature conservation projects in Hawaii, Alaska, the Far East of Russia and the Caribbean, as well as islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean. Here she was involved in numerous works in nature reserves. As a constant volunteer for the Kiribati government , she worked to ensure that Millennium Island is declared a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. For this mission, she was made an honorary citizen of Kiribati by President Teburoro Tito in 2000 .

As a scientist and field ornithologist, she has traveled to 90 countries. Angela Kepler is married to Frank Rust for the second time. Previously, Cameron B. Kepler was her husband.

Author

As an author, Kepler has published articles and books on birds. Including a study on the ecology of the Todis or the breeding behavior of the pearl breasted cuckoo ( Coccyzus euleri ) as well as the fauna of Hawaii and Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, Kepler worked on ferns in the El Yunque National Forest .

In 2001, Kepler wrote the section on the Todis in volume six of the Handbook of the Birds of the World .

Dedication names

Two species were named after Kepler: The Puerto Rican wood warbler ( Dendroica angelae ), an endemic bird species of the fauna of Puerto Rico , contains their first name. In their first description, Cameron B. Kepler and Kenneth Carroll Parkes write : The authors are delighted to continue this tradition and name this distinctive new parulid for its co-discoverer, Angela Kay Kepler, who, in addition, located the El Yunque population and found the individual that became the first collected specimen. (German: The authors are pleased to continue this tradition and name this unmistakable new wood warbler in honor of co-discoverer Angela Kay Kepler, who also recognized the populations in the El Yunque National Forest and also found the first collected hide of this species.)

The type epithet of the subfossil rall species Porzana keplerorum , which once lived on the islands of Hawaii and was first described in 1991, refers to both Angela Kepler and Cameron B. Kepler. The first description was by Storrs Lovejoy Olson and Helen Frances James . The dedication to the etymology of the name used reads: To Cameron B. Kepler and Angela K. Kepler, who have in many ways aided our field investigations in the Hawaiian Islands, especially on Maui, and assisted in collecting some of the type material of this species. (German: For Cameron B. Kepler and Angela K. Kepler, who always helped us with our field research on the islands of Hawaii , especially on Maui , and supported us in collecting some material of this kind.)

Publications

• Common ferns of Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico , Inter American University Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0913480083
• Comparative study of todies (Todidae), with emphasis on the Puerto Rican tody, Todus mexicanus , Nuttall Ornithological Club (16), 1977
• with Cameron B. Kepler: Status and Nesting of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Puerto Rico , The Auk Vol. 95 (2), pp. 417-418, 1978
• with Cameron B. Kepler: The sea-birds of Culebra and its adjacent islands, Puerto Rico , Living Bird 16, pp. 21-50, 1978
• with Cameron B. Kepler: A first record of the nest and chicks of the Small Kaua'i Thrush , Condor 85 (4), pp. 497-499, 1983
• with Douglas Peebles, Jeri Bostwick, Momi Cazimero: Pua Nani Hawaii is a Garden , Mutual Publishing, 1987
• with David H. Ellis , Cameron B. Kepler, Katino Teebaki: Eudynamis taitensis on Caroline Atoll, Kiribati , Emu 90,202, 1990
• Trees of Hawai'i , University of Hawaii Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0824813291
• with Cameron B. Kepler: Haleakala: A Guide to the Mountain , Mutual Publishing, 1992, ISBN 978-0935180671
• with Cameron B. Kepler, David H. Ellis: Part II. Seabirds, other terrestrial animals, and conservation , Atoll Research Bulletin, No 398, 1994
• Maui's Floral Splendor , Mutual Publishing, 1995, ISBN 978-1566470575
• with Jacob R. Mau: Proteas in Hawaii , Mutual Publishing, 1996, ISBN 978-0935180664
• with Jacob R. Mau: Exotic Tropicals Of Hawaii - Heliconias, Gingers, Anthuriums And Decorative Foliage , Mutual Publishing, 1996
• Hawaiian heritage plants , University of Hawaii Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0824819941
• with Paul W. Sykes, Jr., Cameron B. Kepler, J. Michael Scott: Kioea (Chaetoptila angustipluma) , The Birds of North America, No 535e, 2000
• with Paul W. Sykes, Jr., Cameron B. Kepler, J. Michael Scott: Kauai Oo (Moho braccatus), Oahu Oo (Moho apicalis), Bishop's Oo (Moho bishopi), Hawaii Oo (Moho nobilis), and Kioea ( Chaetoptila angustipluma) , The Birds of North America, no.535, 2000
• A Pocket Guide to Maui's Hana Highway , Mutual Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-1566476652
• Haleakala: From Summit to Sea , Mutual Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1566477567
• Todies: An entry from Thomson Gale's Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia , Thomson Gale, 2004
• West Maui: A Natural History Guide , Mutual Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1566478236

Web links

• Dr. Angela K. Kepler. Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . 
• Angela Kay Kepler Conservationist and 'Old-Fashioned Naturalist' (English; PDF; 2.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Application of the World Heritage Convention by the States Parties (English; PDF; 92 kB) Application Kiribati
2. ↑ Honolulu Advertiser Bunchy top virus threatens a piece of Hawaiian culture (engl.)
3. ↑ Banana (Musa sp.) Pest and Disease Image Gallery. Hawaii Department of Agriculture, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . 
4. ↑ The Auk Vol. 89 1972 A New Species of Warbler (Parulidae) from Puerto Rico (English; PDF; 1.2 MB) Original article
5. ↑ Ornithological Monographs, No 45, 1991 Descriptions of Thirty-two. New Species of Birds from the. Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes (English; PDF; 5.0 MB) Original article
6. ↑ The Auk Vol. 95 (2) Status and Nesting of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Puerto Rico (English; PDF; 241 kB) Original article
7. ↑ Condor 85 (4) A first record of the nest and chicks of the Small Kaua'i Thrush (English; PDF; 374 kB) Original article
8. ↑ Emu 90 Eudynamis taitensis on Caroline Atoll, Kiribati (English; PDF; 65 kB) Original article
9. ↑ Atoll Research Bulletin, No 398 Part II. Seabirds, other terrestrial animals, and conservation (English; PDF; 4.5 MB) Original article