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CURRENT POSITIONS
Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and
Distinguished Professor of Zoology
Department of Zoology - Oregon State University
3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2914
Phone: 541-737-5337
Fax: 541-737-3360
Email: lubchenco@oregonstate.edu

EDUCATION
B.A. 1969, Colorado College (Biology; Ford Foundation Independent Study Program) M.S. 1971, University of Washington (Zoology)
Ph.D. 1975, Harvard University (Ecology)

POSITIONS HELD 
- Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1975-77
- Assistant Professor 1977 1982, Associate Professor 1982-88, OSU
- Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, 1978-1984
- Professor 1988-; Chair, Department of Zoology 1989-92; Distinguished Professor 1993-, OSU
- Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology 1995-, OSU.
- Visiting Professor: University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, 1976
- Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile, 1986; Institute of Oceanography, Academica Sinica, Qingdao, P.R. China, 1987; University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2002-2003.
- National Science Board, member 1996-2000, 2000-2006, nominated by President William Jefferson Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
- N.B.: From 1977-1989, Dr. Lubchenco worked part-time, by choice, so she could spend more time with her two young sons. She held a 0.5 FTE tenure-track, then tenured appointment for ten years, then a 0.75 appointment for two years; in 1989, she returned to full-time. 

INTERESTS/EXPERTISE
Science and the environment; public understanding of science; sustainability science; marine conservation biology; ecosystem services; ecological causes and consequences of global change; biodiversity; sustainable ecological systems; rocky intertidal shores; evolutionary community ecology; marine biology; plant-herbivore interactions; chemical ecology; biogeography; mollusks; echinoderms; seaweeds; marine reserves. 


 

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