M. A. R. Koehl

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

Mimi A. R. Koehl
Alma materGettysburg College and Duke University
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
FieldsMarine biology
Doctoral advisorStephen A. Wainwright

Education

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 Stephen A. Wainwright. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, where she studied with Richard R. Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

Research

Koehl broadly studies how body structure and physical environment affect an organism's mechanical function in nature, looking across many levels of biological organization. Scientific techniques utilized in Koehl's laboratory range from fluid and solid mechanics to ecological quadrat sampling.

Selected publications
  • 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 honors

The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Comparative Biomechanics has named the annual best student oral presentation the “Mimi A.R. Koehl and Steven Wainwright Award”

References
  1. "Koehl Lab - About Mimi Koehl".
  2. "Koehl Lab - Lab Research".
  3. "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
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