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Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Director of the Biodiversity Modelling Research Group, at University College London. She is a past chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.

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.

Research

Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally. 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.

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

Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project. According to Google Scholar and Scopus her most cited papers have been published in Science and Nature.

Honours and awards

Jones was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2011. In 2022 she was awarded the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology by the Zoological Society of London and the Marsh Ecology Award from the British Ecological Society.

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.

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?

References

1. ^ Kate Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Kate Jones". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
3. ^ "Prof Kate Jones". UCL Division of Biosciences. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
4. "Board of Trustees – Bat Conservation Trust". Bats.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
5. "Changes at the Bat Conservation Trust - News". Bat Conservation Trust. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
6. Jones, Katherine Elizabeth. (1998). Evolution of bat life-histories (PhD thesis). University of Surrey. OCLC 556734183.
7. Ruz, Camila (2013-04-01). "The dawn of an era of de-extinction". Science Weekly (Podcast). The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
8. "Awards Made in 2008" (PDF). Leverhulme.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
9. "Dr Kate E. Jones | Independent Blogs". Blogs.independent.co.uk. 2011-07-28. Archived from the original on 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
10. "Bat Detective | A Zooniverse Project Blog". Blog.batdetective.org. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
11. "Professor Kate Jones". Invisibledust.com. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
12. "Prof Kate Jones's and the Bat Detective project launched plus interview on BBC World". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
13. "Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives' – BBC News". BBC News. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
14. "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.
15. Kate Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
16. 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.327.7340. doi:10.1126/science.1116030. PMID 16037416. S2CID 378183.
17. 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. PMC 7094913. PMID 21124449.
18. 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. S2CID 4314965.
19. 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. PMC 5960580. PMID 18288193.
20. 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. S2CID 4391288.
21. "Prestigious awards honour the stars of conservation science".
22. "British Ecological Society announces 2022 award winners". 2 September 2022.
23. "Why more women should consider a career in science | Guardian Careers". The Guardian. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

External links

• Official website

• 1972 births
• Living people
• British mammalogists
• British ecologists
• British women ecologists
• Alumni of the University of Leeds
• Alumni of the University of Surrey
• Academics of University College London