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Gillian Bowser
is an American wildlife ecologist, research scientist, and associate professor at
Colorado State University
. Her work largely centers on
climate change
with focuses on pollinators and citizen science.
Early life and education
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Bowser was born in New York to African-American film archivist
Pearl Bowser
and civil rights activist LeRoy Bowser.
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As a child, she was a member of
Ranger Rick
's Nature Club.
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She attended
LaGuardia High School of the Arts
as an art major, completing a degree in fine arts with a focus on medical illustration.
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She earned her B.S. from
Northwestern University
, her M.S. from the
University of Vermont
, and her Ph.D. from the
University of Missouri
.
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Career
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Bowser started working at
Yellowstone National Park
as a college student, where she eventually became a wildlife biologist.
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She was present during the
fires in 1988
.
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She also worked for the
National Park Service
in
Grand Teton National Park
,
Joshua Tree National Park
,
Wrangell?St. Elias National Park and Preserve
, and for the headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
.
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Bowser was a 2011-2012
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Executive Branch Fellow at the
United States Department of State
and a 2022 AAAS Fellow of Science and Engineering.
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She was a 2014
Fulbright
Specialist to
Peru
, during which she studied indicators of climate change at
Huascaran National Park
.
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Bowser is an environmental assessment expert for the
United Nations Environment Programme's
Global Environmental Outlook and participated in the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
, and is a section leader for the
U.S. Global Change Research Program's
National Nature Assessment.
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She is currently an Executive Committee Member of the
International Union of Biological Sciences
.
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As a researcher, Bowser studied elk and bison in Yellowstone National Park, and pollinators in national parks around the world.
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Broadly, she focuses on how climate change affects pollinators and ecological indicators of climate change. She promotes citizen science as a tool to track ecological changes, particularly to understand the impacts of climate change in national parks and protected areas.
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She is an advocate for underrepresented minorities in STEM, and is a principle investigator of the
National Science Foundation
-funded Fieldwork Inspiring Expanded Leadership for Diversity (FIELD) project working to reduce barriers in geoscientific field activity.
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Notable publications
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- Environment, U. N. (2019).
Global environment outlook?GEO-6: healthy planet, healthy people.
Nairobi
. DOI 10.1017/9781108627146.
- Cooper, C. B., Hawn, C. L., Larson, L. R., Parrish, J. K., Bowser, G., Cavalier, D., Dunn, R. R., Haklay, M. (Muki), Gupta, K. K., Jelks, N. O., Johnson, V. A., Katti, M., Leggett, Z., Wilson, O. R., & Wilson, S. (2021).
Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding.
Science
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372
(6549), 1386?1388. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6487
- Shinbrot, X. A., Wilkins, K., Gretzel, U., & Bowser, G. (2019).
Unlocking women’s sustainability leadership potential: Perceptions of contributions and challenges for women in sustainable development.
World Development
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119
, 120?132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.03.009
- Morales, N., Bisbee O’Connell, K., McNulty, S., Berkowitz, A., Bowser, G., Giamellaro, M., & Miriti, M. N. (2020).
Promoting inclusion in ecological field experiences: Examining and overcoming barriers to a professional rite of passage.
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
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101
(4), e01742. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1742
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