M. A. R. Koehl

Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist and Professor at University of California, Berkeley,^[1] and head of the Koehl Lab.^[2]

Biography

M. A. R. Koehl graduated from Gettysburg College Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Biology, and Duke University with a Ph.D. in Zoology, where she studied with Steven Wainwright. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington where she studied with Richard Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

Research

• Koehl, M.A.R. and M.G. Hadfield. 2004. "Soluble settlement cue in slowly-moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces". J. Mar. Systems,
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2004. "Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: Functional shifts caused by changes in speed". J. Biomech. 37:789-795.
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2003. "Physical modelling in biomechanics". Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 358:1589-1596.
• Koehl, M.A.R., J.R. Koseff, J.P. Crimaldi, M.G. McCay, T. Cooper, M.B. Wiley, and P.A. Moore. 2001. "Lobster sniffing: Antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume". Science 294:1948-1951
• Koehl, M.A.R., K.J. Quillin, and C. Pell. 2000. "Mechanical design of fiber-wound hydraulic skeletons: The stiffening and straightening of embryonic notochords". Am. Zool. 40:28-41.
• "The Fluid Mechanics of Arthropod Sniffing in Turbulent Odor Plumes", Chemical Senses 2006 31(2):93-105

Awards and honours

• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Borelli Award, American Society of Biomechanics
• 1990 MacArthur Fellows Program
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Fellow, California Academy of Science
• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
• Rachel Carson Award, American Geophysical Union
• John Martin Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceangoraphy
• Honorary Degree, Bates College
• Muybridge Award, International Society of Biomechanics

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