Claire Kremen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at Princeton University and an Associate Conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Her primary interest is to use biological, social and economic data to develop conservation plans that benefit both the environment and people. Within conservation biology, she has studied a wide array of topics, including the economics and ecology of ecosystem services, sustainable forestry, ecology and biogeography of tropical butterflies, population biology of lemurs, and ecological monitoring. Her work reaches from theory to practice and includes hands-on conservation action. From 1993 — 1997, she designed and helped to establish Madagascar's largest National Park on the Masoala Peninsula. Her current research examines the functional links between the spatial distribution of wildlands, the diversity of insect pollinators, and the delivery of pollination services to agriculture in California. She is also investigating the relationship between strategies that conserve biodiversity and those that maintain ecosystem services, using carbon storage on a global scale, and pollination services on a local scale. Finally, she is working with the government of Madagascar to establish a national conservation-planning tool by accumulating data on species occurrences, developing predictive models of species distributions, and conducting conservation analyses.

She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University in 1987 as a National Science Foundation and James B. Duke Fellow and her B.Sc. in Biology with honors and distinction from Stanford University in 1982. She is a scientific advisor for several conservation organizations and sits on the Editorial Board of Conservation Biology . She is a 2001 recipient of the McDonnell 21 st Century Research Award.

Selected publications:

Kremen, C., N. M. Williams, and R. W. Thorp. 2002. Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification. PNAS

Kremen, C . , Niles, J., Dalton, M., Daily, G., Ehrlich, P., Fay, P., Grewal, D. and R. P. Guillery. 2000. Economic incentives for forest conservation across scales. Science. 288:1828-1832.

Kremen, C. and T. Ricketts. 2000. Global perspectives on pollination disruptions. Conservation Biology , 14:1226-1228.

Kremen, C. , Razafimahatratra, V., Guillery, R. P., Rakotomalala, J., Weiss, A., and J. Ratsitsompatrarivo. 1999. Designing a new national park in Madagascar based on biological and socio-economic data. Conservation Biology 13:1055-1068.

Kremen, C ., Lance, K. and I. Raymond. 1998. Interdisciplinary tools for monitoring conservation impacts in Madagascar. Conservation Biology, 12 , 549-563., 99:16812-16816.