Kate Jones (scientist)

Kate Jones
Born Katherine Elizabeth Jones
1972 (age 45–46)
Other names Cocktail Kate[1]
Alma mater
Known for Bat Detective
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University College London
Thesis Evolution of bat life-histories (1998)
Website www.katejones.org

Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She holds the Chair in Ecology and Biodiversity jointly at University College London and the Zoological Society of London,[3] and she is chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.[4]

Education

Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds in 1993 and with a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey in 1998.[3][5]

Research

Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally.[6] She won a 2008 Philip Leverhulme Award in Zoology (given to "outstanding young scholars … whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise") and holds a number of scientific advisory board positions for national and international conservation charities.[7]

Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound.[8][9]

Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project.[1][10][11][12][13] According to Google Scholar[2] and Scopus[14] her most cited papers have been published in Science[15] and Nature.[16][17][18][19]

Jones says that Charles Darwin is "allegedly" her 8th cousin 6 times removed.[20][21] This implies that her 13 times great-grandfather was Darwin's 7 times great-grandfather.[22]

Personal life

Jones is also known for her love of cocktails, which she discussed with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.[23]

In a Guardian feature on "Why more women should consider a career in science", Jones said:

Being a scientist helps me understand the amazing diversity and evolution of life and gives me freedom to answer questions that most interest me. This amazing job has taken me all over the world meeting people and wildlife I only imagined. Why on earth would you want to do anything else?[24]

References

  1. 1 2 "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Kate Jones". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  2. 1 2 Kate Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. 1 2 "Kate Jones". Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research. University College Londond. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Board of Trustees – Bat Conservation Trust". Bats.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  5. ↑ Jones, Katherine Elizabeth. (1998). Evolution of bat life-histories (PhD thesis). University of Surrey. OCLC 556734183.
  6. ↑ "Science Weekly podcast: The dawn of an era of de-extinction | Science". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  7. ↑ "Awards Made in 2008" (PDF). Leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Dr Kate E. Jones | Independent Blogs". Blogs.independent.co.uk. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  9. ↑ "Bat Detective | A Zooniverse Project Blog". Blog.batdetective.org. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  10. ↑ "Professor Kate Jones". Invisibledust.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  11. ↑ "Prof Kate Jones's and the Bat Detective project launched plus interview on BBC World". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  12. ↑ "Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives' – BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  13. ↑ "Becoming A Bat Detective – Planet Earth Online – Professor Kate Jones, University College London & Charlotte Walters, Zoological Society Of London". Thenakedscientists.com. 2012-12-02. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  14. ↑ Kate Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  15. ↑ Cardillo, M.; Mace, G. M.; Jones, K. E.; Bielby, J; Bininda-Emonds, O. R.; Sechrest, W; Orme, C. D.; Purvis, A (2005). "Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species". Science. 309 (5738): 1239–41. Bibcode:2005Sci...309.1239C. doi:10.1126/science.1116030. PMID 16037416.
  16. ↑ Keesing, Felicia; Belden, Lisa K.; Daszak, Peter; Dobson, Andrew; Harvell, C. Drew; Holt, Robert D.; Hudson, Peter; Jolles, Anna; Jones, Kate E.; Mitchell, Charles E.; Myers, Samuel S.; Bogich, Tiffany; Ostfeld, Richard S. (2010). "Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases". Nature. 468 (7324): 647–52. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..647K. doi:10.1038/nature09575. PMID 21124449.
  17. ↑ Bininda-Emonds, O.; Cardillo, M.; Jones, K.; MacPhee, R.; Beck, R.; Grenyer, R.; Price, S.; Vos, R.; Gittleman, J.; Purvis, A. (2007). "The delayed rise of present-day mammals". Nature. 446 (7135): 507–512. Bibcode:2007Natur.446..507B. doi:10.1038/nature05634. PMID 17392779.
  18. ↑ Jones, Kate E.; Patel, Nikkita G.; Levy, Marc A.; Storeygard, Adam; Balk, Deborah; Gittleman, John L.; Daszak, Peter (2008). "Global trends in emerging infectious diseases". Nature. 451 (7181): 990–3. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..990J. doi:10.1038/nature06536. PMID 18288193.
  19. ↑ Grenyer, Richard; Orme, C. David L.; Jackson, Sarah F.; Thomas, Gavin H.; Davies, Richard G.; Davies, T. Jonathan; Jones, Kate E.; Olson, Valerie A.; Ridgely, Robert S.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ding, Tzung-Su; Bennett, Peter M.; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gittleman, John L.; Owens, Ian P. F. (2006). "Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates". Nature. 444 (7115): 93–6. Bibcode:2006Natur.444...93G. doi:10.1038/nature05237. PMID 17080090.
  20. ↑ "Iris View Profile". Iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  21. ↑ "Kate Jones – Biodiversity Modelling Research Group | University College London and The Zoological Society of London". Katejones.org. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  22. ↑ "Cousin relationships". Brenda Paternoster. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  23. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Kate Jones". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  24. ↑ "Why more women should consider a career in science | Guardian Careers". The Guardian. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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