Sandra Lee Vehrencamp

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Sandra Lee Vehrencamp (born February 11, 1948 in Glendale , California ) is an American ornithologist , ethologist and educator .

Life

Vehrencamp is the daughter of John Edward and Dorothy (Lee) Vehrencamp. In 1965 she graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in La Crescenta , California. In 1970 she received her Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley . On December 27, 1973, she married the ornithologist and neurobiologist Jack W. Bradbury . From this marriage two daughters were born. In 1976, she was under the direction of Stephen T. Emlen with the dissertation The evolution of communal nesting in groove-billed anis for Ph.D. PhD in ethology from Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . For this, they studied 18 months, the breeding biology of Riefenschnabelanis ( Crotophaga sulcirostris ) in Costa Rica . From 1976 to 1979 she was a lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of California, San Diego . From 1980 to 1984 she was a member of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Committee on Elemental Behavioral Processes at Cornell University. In 1983 Vehrencamp set up the optimal skew theory , which deals with the reproductive success of individuals in (social) animal species living together in groups. In 1998, Vehrencamp and Bradbury published the textbook Principles of Animal Communication , which today is one of the standard works on the evolutionary factors of animal communication and was reprinted in 2011. In 1999, Vehrencamp became a professor in the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell Lab of Ornithology . In autumn 2010 she retired and received the title of Professor emerita .

Vehrencamp is a member of the American Ornithologists 'Union , the British Ornithologists' Union , the Animal Behavior Society , the Ecological Society of America , the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Awards

In 2004 she was awarded the Faculty Research Mentor Awar d from Cornell University for her findings on bird song in Costa Rica.

In 2011 Vehrencamp was awarded the William Brewster Medal of the American Ornithologists' Union for “her thorough and insightful work on social evolution and animal communication” .

In 2012 she and her husband received the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society.

In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

literature

  • Marquis Who's Who, LLC: Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984 , December 1, 1983, p. 824

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra L. Vehrenkamp (1983): Optimal degree of skew in Cooperative Societies. Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 23 Issue 2: 327-335. doi : 10.1093 / icb / 23.2.327
  2. ^ Sandra L. Vehrencamp: 2011 recipient of the William Brewster Memorial Award. Ornithology Exchange, accessed June 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Animal Behavior Society - Exemplar Award. Animal Behavior Society, accessed June 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects National and International Scholars, Artists, Philanthropists, Business and Civic Leaders
  5. ^ Cornell Chronicle: Three elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Vehrencamp, Sandra Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vehrencamp, Sandra L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist, ethologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale , California