!!Mary Power - Curriculum Vitae
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Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Director, Angelo Coast Range Reserve\\
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__Professional Preparation__
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*Brown University, Providence, RI Biology, BA, 1971 \\
*Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole MA, Biology, MS 1974\\
*University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Zoology, PhD Dec 1981
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__Selected Honors and Awards__
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*Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists (Umea University and Swedish Univ. Agric. Sci. 2004)\\
*G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2005\\
*American Society of Naturalists:  President Elect, President, Past President, 2004-2007\\
*Ecological Society of America:  President Elect, President, Past President, 2008-2011\\
*Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (elected 2005)\\
*Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2007)\\
*Honorary Doctorate, Umea University, 2011\\
*National Academy of Science (elected 2012)\\
*Fellow, Ecological Society of America (elected 2014)\\
*Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lecturer, 2016\\
*Award of Excellence from the Society of Freshwater Science (2018)\\
*Featured ecologist in the documentaries Serengeti Rules (2018-20) (https://www.theserengetirules.com/)\\
*Fellow, Society of Freshwater Science, (elected 2019)\\
*Member, American Philosophical Society, (elected 2025)

!Biography

Dr. Mary E. Power, PhD, NAS, is Professor of Graduate School in the Dept Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Faculty Director of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve; and co-PI in the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory. Power sits on the Board for the California Nature Conservancy, the Recovery Science Review Panel for NOAA-Fisheries, the Executive Committee of the NSF National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics, the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, and was founding Director of the California Biodiversity Center. She served as group leader for a Presidential Western Water Policy Advisory Commission, and currently leads the chapter on Inland Waters for the 2025 National Nature Assessment (a parallel to the National Climate Assessment). She studies food webs in tropical and temperate rivers. Focal organisms include cyanobacteria, diatoms, green algae, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, and terrestrial insects, spiders, lizards, birds and bats that feed on exported river production. Power and her group have revealed environmental controls and ecological interactions that structure the algal-based food webs the dominate clear-flowing rivers.  In Western North America, both winter and summer hydrology trigger alternative summer food webs that either support salmon and other valued predators, or promote harmful cyanobacteria. In collaboration with local citizen groups and Native Californian tribes, Power and colleagues are tracking how changes in climate (both winter and summer hydrology), biota, and land use are affecting river and watershed ecosystems along the California North Coast, and their linkages to upland and estuarine ecosystems.  Power and colleagues have also studied impacts of changes in rainfall seasonality on above-ground meadow food webs and their below-ground microbiomes.  Since 1988, Power has been founding Director of the Angelo Reserve, a 3240 ha natural history reserve protected by the University of California Natural Reserve System for teaching, research, and outreach.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit mpower}][{ALLOW upload mpower}][{ALLOW comment All}]