Brina Kessel

Brina Cattell Kessel Roof (née Brina Cattell Kessel, November 20, 1925 – March 1, 2016) was an American ornithology ornithologist, curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North University of Alaska Museum, professor, and dean at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She was elected in 1960 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1973 a fellow of the American Ornithological Society American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). She served as the AOU's president from 1992 to 1994. Kessel Pond at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska is named in her honor. Quotes A maximum of 140 species of birds can be seen more-or-less regularly each year in interior Alaska. Of these species, however, only 28 can be considered regular winter residents, including two hawks, six Grouse tetraonids, five owls, four woodpeckers, and eleven passerines ... Late-autumn and winter bird records from interior Alaska Condor 1967 313–316 https://academic.oup.com/condor/article-abstract/69/3/313/5229164?redirectedFrom=fulltext Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska (1989) Most shearwaters leave the Bering Sea during September and October (Hunt et al. 1981b), but stragglers have been recorded as far north as Barrow, Alaska Barrow as late as any water exists, even to mid-November (Ira Noel Gabrielson Gabrielson and Frederick Charles Lincoln Lincoln 1959). Birds of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Their Biogeography, Seasonality, and Natural History illustrated University of Alaska Press 1989 9780912006291 https://books.google.com/books?id=zdBOAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=shearwaters+barrow 32 (330 pages) Young puffins are unable to fly when they leave the nest; they fall and flutter to the water below and swim immediately ... p. 223 Quotes about Brina Kessel The author takes a Joseph Grinnell#Grinnell Method of note taking Grinnellian approach to identifying the major environmental factors that help define the species-specific niches of taiga birds in Alaska. In her study, she censused breeding birds on twelve 10-Hectare ha plots selected to represent fairly homogeneous tracts of each of the major habitats described for Alaska's taiga. Colleen M. Handel, review of Habitat Characteristics of Some Passerine Birds in Western North American Taiga by Brina Kessel 217–218 Western Birds 30 1999 4, Article 5 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2033&context=western_birds External links Brina Kessel (1925 – 2016) University of Alaska Museum Department of Ornithology https://www.universityofalaskamuseumbirds.org/brina-kessel-1925-2016/ Category:1925 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Curators Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Ornithologists Category:Scientists from New York (state) Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1920s