Elisabeth Wheeler
{{Short description|American botanist, biologist and wood scientist (1944-)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Elisabeth A. Wheeler
| image = Dr. Elisabeth Wheeler in February 2024.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|01|10}}
| birth_place =
| nationality = American
| education = Southern Illinois University Carbondale (MS; PhD)
| alma_mater = North Carolina State University
| occupation = Researcher, educator, botanist and wood scientist
| years_active = since 1972
}}
Elisabeth A. Wheeler (born January 10, 1944){{cite web | title=Elisabeth Wheeler | website=College of Natural Resources | url=https://cnr.ncsu.edu/directory/elisabeth-wheeler/ | access-date=2023-11-18}} is an American biologist, botanist, and wood scientist, who is an emeritus professor at the North Carolina State University.
Her research work is in the area of wood anatomy (softwoods and hardwoods) and paleontology (late cretaceous and early tertiary fossil woods),{{cite web | title=IAWA list of microscopic features for hardwood identification | website=Google Scholar | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=ybUb-XEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=ybUb-XEAAAAJ:UxriW0iASnsC | access-date=2023-11-18}}{{cite web | title=IAWA List of Microscopic Features for Softwood Identification | website=Google Scholar | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=ybUb-XEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=ybUb-XEAAAAJ:AXPGKjj_ei8C | access-date=2023-11-18}}{{cite journal | last=Wheeler | first=Elisabeth A. | title=Inside Wood – A Web resource for hardwood anatomy | journal=IAWA Journal | publisher=Brill | volume=32 | issue=2 | year=2011 | issn=0928-1541 | doi=10.1163/22941932-90000051 | pages=199–211| doi-access=free }}
Most of her pioneering research work has been jointly made with the Dutch botanist, Pieter Baas.{{cite web | title=North Carolina State University, North Carolina | website=ResearchGate | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisabeth-Wheeler | access-date=2024-05-04}}
Education
Wheeler studied biology in the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, and got her BA in 1965.
She did her MS studies in botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1968-1970), and she continued with doctorate research in botany obtaining her PhD in 1972.{{cite web | title= CV of Prof. Elisabeth Wheeler| url=https://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/symposium/pdf/wheeler.CV.pdf | access-date=2023-11-18}}
Research career
During the years 1972–1976, she worked as a curatorial assistant and honorary research fellow at the Bailey-Wetmore Laboratory of Plant Anatomy and Morphology at Harvard University. In 1976, Wheeler became an assistant professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Wood and Paper Science, where she worked continually until 2008, when she retired as a full professor.
Wheeler has coordinated the NCSU initiative for the creation of the InsideWood, a unique and versatile purely-educational database{{cite web | url=https://grantome.com/grant/NSF/DBI-0237368 | title=Wood Identification Collection Enhancement and Web Access | last1=Wheeler | first1=Elisabeth | last2=Brown | first2=Kathleen | last3=Westmoreland | first3=Deborah }}{{cite web | title=Elisabeth Wheeler | website=Google Scholar | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ybUb-XEAAAAJ&hl=en | access-date=2023-11-18}}{{cite web | title=Inside Wood – A Web resource for hardwood anatomy| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285762748 | access-date=2023-11-18}} containing thousands of wood anatomical descriptions and over 66,000 photomicrographs, and its free, open coverage is worldwide.{{cite web | title=About The Project | website=Inside Wood | url=https://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/about | access-date=2023-11-18}}
She is a member of the International Association of Wood Anatomists, the Botanical Society of America, and the International Organization of Paleobotany, and is a Fellow at the International Society of Wood Science and Technology.{{cite web | title=International Society of Wood Science and Technology | website=SWST - International Society of Wood Science and Technology | url=https://www.swst.org/wp/ | access-date=2024-10-07}} She served as a co-editor of the IAWA Journal, in cooperation with the then editor, Pieter Baas.{{cite web | title=Past award holders_IAWA website | website=iawa-website.org | url=https://www.iawa-website.org/en/IAWA_Journal/I_W__Bailey_Award/Past_award_holders.shtml | language=zh | access-date=2023-11-18}} In October 2023, a meta-research carried out by John Ioannidis et al. at the Stanford University included Wheeler in Elsevier Data 2022, where she was ranked at the top 2% of researchers of all time in forestry – paleontology.{{citation | last=Baas | first=Jeroen | title=October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" | chapter=Bibliometrics | date=2023 | volume=6 | publisher=Elsevier Data Repository | doi=10.17632/BTCHXKTZYW.6 | url=https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6 | access-date=2024-03-30}} Until March 2024, Wheeler's research work has been cited more than 7,000 times in Google Scholar (h-index: 46).{{cite web | title=Elisabeth Wheeler | website=Google Scholar | url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ybUb-XEAAAAJ&hl=en | access-date=2024-02-12}}
The standard author abbreviation Wheeler is used to indicate this scientist as the author, when citing a botanical name,{{cite web | title=A diverse assemblage of Late Eocene woods from Oregon, western USA | website=Plant Fossil Names | date=2022-02-18 | url=https://www.plantfossilnames.org/reference/961/ | access-date=2023-12-05}}{{cite web | title=Search the Inside Wood Database | website=Inside Wood | url=https://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search;jsessionid=ztXYLWsBkl1BWKOpB50qXvAsi7vSfVPVzRptitss?0 | access-date=2023-12-05}} e.g. Alangium oregonensis Scott & Wheeler.
Personal life
She lives permanently in Raleigh, North Carolina.
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisabeth-Wheeler ResearchGate Elisabeth Wheeler]
- [https://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search?48 InsideWood] North Carolina State University
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