Kimberly A. With

Kimberly A. With grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she received a degree in Biology from San Francisco State University (B.S., 1985). She went on to earn a M.S. in Biology from Northern Arizona University (1988) and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Colorado State University (1993). Following her doctorate, she was awarded a prestigious Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy, which enabled her to work with the landscape ecology group in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1993-1995). A university professor of landscape and conservation ecology for 25 years, her research has focused on the ecological consequences of human land use, particularly in regards to the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on species' extinction risk and the risk of invasive spread.