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| Terry L. Root, PhD |
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Professor of Biological Sciences, by courtesy; FSI Senior Fellow
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troot@stanford.edu
(650) 736-1296 (phone)
(650) 323-2174 (fax)
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Stanford University
Encina Hall E411
Stanford, CA 94305-6055 |
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| English |
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rare and endangered species; the influence of global warming on wildlife; biogeography conservation and management; factors limiting the distribution of wintering birds |
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Terry Root is an associate professor of biological sciences, by courtesy, and an FSI senior fellow. Her work focuses on investigating factors that shape the range and abundance of animals, primarily birds, as the globe continues to warm. Her work has demonstrated that climate and vegetation are important factors shaping the range and abundance of birds. She has also investigated gender-based differences in scientific communities by quantifying the opportunities and obstacles that women and men face in science.
Before coming to Stanford, she was an assistant professor and then associate professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan (1987-2001). In 1993, she was elected to the Governing Council of the American Ornithologists Union, the largest professional ornithology society in North American, and became a fellow of the organization in 1995. She was honored by President George Bush in 1990 with the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. She was selected as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment in 1992, and as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 1999.
Root's major publications include Atlas of Wintering North American Birds: An Analysis of Christmas Bird-count Data. This continent-wide examination helped reveal the importance of scale in ecological research, prompting further investigation of the integration of large- and small-scale studies. In addition, she was a lead author of an assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which discussed how climate change affects wildlife.
Root received a BS in mathematics and statistics from the University of New Mexico, an MA in biology from the University of Colorado in 1982, and a PhD in biology from Princeton University in 1987.
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