Nalini Nadkarni Biography

Nalini Nadkarni is an ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Using mountain climbing equipment to make her ascent Nadkarni first took an inventory of the canopy in 1981 followed by two more inventories in 1984.Nadkarni has spent two decades climbing the trees of Costa Rica Papua New Guinea the Amazon and the Pacific Northwest exploring the world of animals and plants that live in the canopy and never come down; and how this upper layer of the forest interacts with the world on the ground. A pioneering researcher in this area Nadkarni created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers store and understand the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.In academia aside from her research efforts Nadkarni is Emeritus Professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington and is a professor in the Department of Biology and the director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Utah.Outside academia Nadkarni is involved with a variety of initiatives that use nontraditional vectors to teach the general public about trees and the ecosystem.

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