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 Camille Parmesan Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Dr. Camille Parmesan received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. She then took a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. She is currently an Associate Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her early research spanned multiple aspects of the behavior, ecology and evolution of insect/plant interactions in natural systems. In 1992, Parmesan received a NASA fellowship under the Mission to Planet Earth Program. Since then, her research has been focused on observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change in wild species working at multiple scales, from field studies of individual butterfly species in North America and Europe, to global-scale syntheses spanning from microbes to mega-fauna in terrestrial, freshwater and marine systems.
The intensification of global warming as an international issue led Dr. Parmesan into the interface of policy and science. She has given presentations in D.C. for White House and Congressional seminar series, and has testified as an expert witness for both the state and national Congressional Committees. She has been involved in several synthesis reports, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third and Fourth Reports and the US Climate Change Strategic Plan. She has also been active in climate change programs for international Conservation organizations, such as IUCN (the World Conservation Organization) and WWF (World-Wildlife fund), and is on the Science Council of the Nature Conservancy. Her work has been highlighted in thousands of scientific and popular press reports, such as in Science News, the New York Times, the London Times, National Geographic, Audubon magazine, National Public Radio, the BBC film series "State of the Planet" with David Attenborough, CBS Evening News, ABC Nightline with Peter Jennings, and ABC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
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