Lynne R. Parenti
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Lynne R. Parenti (born 1954) is an American ichthyologist. IN 2015 she serves as a Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian.[1] As an author, she is largely held in libraries worldwide.[2]
Early Life and Education
Parenti was born in Manhattan, New York, grew up in Staten Island. She earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1975 and her Ph.D in Biology through a joint program between the City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History in 1980.[3]
Career
She holds expertise in systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of tropical freshwater and coastal marine fishes, comparative teleost anatomy, development and reproduction, and theory and methods of historical biogeography.
Research Specialties and Contributions to the Field
Parenti has written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals including Science. Many of her articles are highly cited.[4]
Parenti has also written four books. Her most recent book, Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth (2009, University of California Press), was recognized in 2010 as the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize Winner.[5]
She has specialized in the systematics and historical biogeography of freshwater and coastal fishes for thirty years. Dr. Parenti has led expeditions in Papua New Guinea, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, China, Taiwan, Sulawesi, Hawaii, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Among other work, her research has led to biological reclassification of Killfish.[6][7]
Honors and Awards
In 2005, Parenti was the first woman ichthyologist to be President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Honorary Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and Honorary member of the Indonesian Ichthyological Society. In 2005, she was a Distinguished Lecturer in the Petrus Artedi Tricentennial Symposium on Ichthyology and has been the principle investigator of several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. In 1995 she was admitted into the Washington Biologists’ Field Club.[3]
References
- ^ Tropical Fish Hobbyist. Vol. Volume 43, Issues 9-10. T.F.H. Publications. 1995. p. 198.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ "Parenti, Lynne R." worldcat.org. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
- ^ a b Perry, M.C.; Bond, C.S.; Lohnes, E.J.R. "Lynne R. Parenti". Washington Biologists' Field Club. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Google Scholar Report"
- ^ "Smithsonian Women Scientists: Dr. Lynne Parenti, Ichthyologist (NMNH)". Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ John Dawes (2001). Complete Encyclopedia of the Freshwater Aquarium. Firefly Books. pp. 262–. ISBN 978-1-55297-544-2.
- ^ John A. Dawes (1 May 1988). A practical guide to keeping freshwater aquarium fishes. Exeter Books. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-671-09309-9.