Linda Trueb

Linda Alice Trueb (born January 13, 1942 in Pomona , California ) is an American herpetologist . Her research focus is the development of skeletal diversity and morphology in modern and fossil amphibians .

Life

In 1962 Trueb received a Bachelor of Arts degree in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley . In 1965 she married the herpetologist William E. Duellman (* 1930), with whom she has a daughter. In 1968 she graduated with a thesis on the cranial osteology in anurans at the University of Kansas for Ph.D. In the same year she taught at the private Baker University in Baldwin City , Kansas . After completing her doctorate, she supported herself for several years with research grants and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas. From 1972 to 1973 she was a lecturer at the University of Missouri . In 1979 she taught as a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. In 1991, Trueb was appointed curator for herpetology and professor in the Department of Systematics and Ecology (formerly Chair of Zoology) at the University of Kansas. Together with her husband, she developed a leading undergraduate program in herpetology that includes courses in scientific illustration, evolutionary morphology, amphibian biology, and the diverse aspects of vertebrate morphology. In January 1997, she became the senior curator in the Herpetology Department of the National History Museum at the University of Kansas.

Trueb did intensive fieldwork in Central and South America as well as in Africa and Australia . Her research includes the morphology and systematics of amphibians, especially tropical frogs. She also deals with the functional morphology and the role of heterochrony in the osteology of frogs. In addition to her research work, Trueb works as a scientific illustrator.

Trueb has written numerous scientific articles that have been published in national and international symposium volumes as well as in specialist journals, including in Zootaxa , Miscellaneous Publications and Occasional Papers of the University of Kansas , Contributions to Science of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History , Copeia , Herpetologica , Journal of Morphology and the South African Journal of Science .

literature

• Ernest Kay, Diane Butcher: International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women , Melrose Press, Limited, 1989, p. 742
• William E. Duellman, Linda Trueb: Biology of Amphibians , The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 (biographical entry on p. X)
• Jewell Willhite: An Interview with William Duellman Oral History Project KU Retirees' Club University of Kansas (PDF; 7.45 MB; English)

Web links

• Biographical profile at the University of Kansas (English)