{{short description|American biologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Nancy Knowlton | image = Nancy Knowlton at World Oceans Day 2015.JPG | image_size = | caption = Nancy Knowlton at World Oceans Day in 2015 | death_date = | death_place = | field = Coral reef biologist | alma_mater = Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley<br/>Harvard University | work_institutions = University of California, San Diego<br/>Smithsonian Institution | prizes = Leopold Leadership Fellow (1999); Benchley Award for Science (2009); Heinz Award with special focus on the environment (2011) | spouse = Jeremy Jackson (m. 1983) | children = 2 }}
'''Nancy Knowlton''' is a coral reef biologist and a former Sant Chair for Marine Science<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/nmnh_Knowlton_named_Sant_Chair.htm.Marine|title=Biologist Nancy Knowlton Named Smithsonian's Sant Chair for Marine Science, June 8, 2007|website=si.edu}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
==Life== She graduated from Harvard University, and from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD. She was a professor at Yale University, then joined the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.<ref name="stanford.edu">{{cite web|url=http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/fellows/knowlton|title=Fellows Directory - Leopold Leadership Program|website=leopoldleadership.stanford.edu}}</ref>
She is an adjunct professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sio.ucsd.edu/Profile/nknowlton|title=KNOWLTON, NANCY - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego|website=sio.ucsd.edu}}</ref> While at Scripps, Knowlton also founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. She was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 1999 <ref name="stanford.edu"/> and was elected to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008. She also serves as one of three co-chairs for the coral reef Census of Marine Life.
She is the author of the book ''Citizens of the Sea'' which was published by National Geographic in 2010<ref>{{Cite book|title=Citizens of the Sea: Wondrous Creatures From the Census of Marine Life|last=Knowlton|first=Nancy|date=2010-09-14|publisher=National Geographic|isbn=9781426206436|edition= 8/16/10 |location=Washington, D.C.|language=English}}</ref> to celebrate the end of the Census of Marine Life. In 2011, Knowlton received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Heinz Awards - Nancy Knowlton|url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/nancy-knowlton|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> Knowlton was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=NAS Member Directory - Nancy Knowlton|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2517529.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=February 10, 2021|website=nasonline.org}}</ref>
==Select publications== *Knowlton, N. 2008. "Coral reefs". ''Current Biology'' 18: R18-R21. *Knowlton, N. and J. B. C. Jackson. 2008. "Shifting baselines, local impacts, and global change on coral reefs". ''PLoS Biology'' 6: e54, 6 pp. *Hoegh-Guldberg, O., P. J. Mumby, A. J. Hooten, R. S. Steneck, P. Greenfield, E. Gomez, C. D. Harvell, P. F. Sale, A. J. Edwards, K. Caldeira, N. Knowlton, C. M. Eakin, R. Iglesias-Prieto, N. Muthiga, R. H. Bradbury, A. Dubi, and M. E. Hatziolos. 2007. "Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification". ''Science'' 318: 1737-1742. *Knowlton, N. 2004. "Multiple “stable” states and the conservation of marine ecosystems". ''Progress in Oceanography''. 60: 387-396. *Fukami, H., A. F. Budd, G. Paulay, A. Solé-Cava, C. A. Chen, K. Iwao, and N. Knowlton. 2004. "Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals". ''Nature'' 427: 832-835. *Rohwer, F., V. Seguritan, F. Azam, and N. Knowlton 2002. "High diversity and species-specific distribution of coral-associated bacteria". ''Marine Ecology Progress Series'' 243: 1-10. *Knowlton, N. 2001. "The future of coral reefs." ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' 98:5419-5425. *Williams, S. T. and N. Knowlton. 2001. "Mitochondrial pseudogenes are pervasive and often insidious in the snapping shrimp genus Alpheus". ''Molecular Biology and Evolution'' 18:1484-1493. *Knowlton, N. 2000. "Molecular genetics analyses of species boundaries in the sea". ''Hydrobiologia'' 420:73-90. *Herre, A., N. Knowlton, U. Mueller and S. Rehner. 1999. "The evolution of mutualisms: Exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation". ''Trends in Ecology and Evolution'' 14:49-53.
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==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [https://www.ibiology.org/ecology/coral-reefs/ Nancy Knowlton's Seminar: "Corals and Coral Reefs"] * [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/ocean-hall/atm-qa-200809.html Nancy Knowlton interviewed for Smithsonian Magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008104046/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/ocean-hall/atm-qa-200809.html |date=2008-10-08 }} * [http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4029 Interview with Nancy Knowlton for E Magazine]
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