Jenny Baeseman
{{short description|American polar researcher}}
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Jenny Baeseman is an American polar researcher who studies the survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold environments. She is the founding director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), executive director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and was previously the executive director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere.
Early life and education
Baeseman grew up in Wisconsin, where she earned a B.S. in water resources and chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UWSP).{{Cite news |url=http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/story/news/local/2015/07/30/marathon-uwsp-grad-directs-antarctic-science-efforts/30887675/ |title=Marathon, UWSP grad directs Antarctic science efforts |date=July 30, 2015 |newspaper=Wausau Daily Herald |access-date=July 7, 2016}} There she began research looking at nitrogen in streams. She received an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in civil engineering with an environmental emphasis from the University of Colorado. She then completed postdoctoral research in geosciences at Princeton University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/news/clic-news/173-jbaesemanclicdir |title=WCRP Welcomes Dr. Jenny Baeseman as new CliC Director |date=September 27, 2012 |website=climate-cryosphere.org |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617070731/http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/news/clic-news/173-jbaesemanclicdir |url-status=dead }}
Career
Baeseman is the executive director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).{{Cite web |url=http://www.scar.org/contact-scar |title=Contact |publisher=Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |access-date=July 3, 2016 |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923134543/http://www.scar.org/contact-scar |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/jenny-baeseman-appointed-scar-executive-director |title=Jenny Baeseman appointed SCAR Executive Director |website=icsu.org |publisher=International Council for Science |access-date=2016-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192729/http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/jenny-baeseman-appointed-scar-executive-director |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} Previously, she was the executive director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere, and the founding director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).{{Cite web |url=http://www.apecs.is/news/partner-news/1127-baeseman-appointed-scar-executive-director.html |title=Baeseman Appointed SCAR Executive Director |last=Mariash |first=Heather |website=www.apecs.is |publisher=Association of Polar Early Career Scientists |access-date=July 7, 2016}}
Baeseman's research concerns the survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold environments and possible applications of their biochemistry. She has published in the fields of microbial ecology, polar and climate science, and education and communication of polar science. She has spent three summer seasons in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica and periods living in Fairbanks, Alaska and Tromsø, Norway. She also participated in a Students On Ice Antarctic University expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula.
Awards and honors
Baeseman is a Distinguished Alumni at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uwsp.edu/Alumni/Pages/Awards/DistinguishAlumList(old).aspx |title=Distinguished Alumnus List |publisher=University of Wisconsin Stevens Point |access-date=July 3, 2016}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.cookcountynews-herald.com/news/2009-06-20/community/039.html |title=Williams graduates from UW-Stevens Point |date=June 20, 2009 |newspaper=Cook County News Herald |access-date=July 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305025425/http://www.cookcountynews-herald.com/news/2009-06-20/community/039.html |archive-date=March 5, 2017 |url-status=dead }} She was included in the 2007 Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and in the 2006-2008 Who’s Who in America.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}} In 2006, Baeseman received the Editor's Excellence in Review Citation from JGR Biogeosciences.{{Cite journal |last=Editors of AGU |year=2007 |title=2006 Editors' Citations for Excellence in Refereeing |journal=Eos |volume=88 |pages=410–416 |doi= 10.1002/(ISSN)2324-9250|citeseerx=10.1.1.603.7320 }} As an undergraduate, Baeseman received the 1996 and 1998 UWSP Chancellor's Leadership Award,{{Cite web |url=http://www.uwsp.edu/cla/Pages/default.aspx |title=Chancellor's Leadership Award |website=uwsp.edu |publisher=University of Wisconsin Stevens Point |access-date=July 7, 2016}} the 1997 Sigma Xi Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, and was AWRA's 1995 Student of the Year.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
References
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External links
- {{ResearchGate|Jenny_Baeseman}}
- {{LinkedIn page|in/baeseman}}
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Category:Scientists from Wisconsin
Category:University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Category:University of Colorado
Category:University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point alumni
Category:American women scientists
Category:American Antarctic scientists
Category:Women Antarctic scientists