Carol Kearns

Senior Instructor

carol.a.kearns@colorado.edu
303-492-4973
Baker 251

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1990

Research Interests

Dr. Kearns teaches for the Baker Residential Academic Program, a residence hall based, living and learning program for students in the Natural Sciences. She teaches General Biology, Environmental Biology, Field Ecology, Environmental Issues, Evolutionary Biology, and Colorado: History, Ecology and the Environment and enjoys working with student researchers on field-based projects related to plants and insects. She is a pollination biologist with a special interest in the biology of bumblebees, dipteran pollination, and the reproductive biology and population dynamics of montane and alpine plants. Her current research focuses on the effects of urbanization on pollinator diversity and abundance. This work is being conducted in grasslands of Boulder Open and has employed student researchers interested in gaining experience in field research. Other interests include running, fishing, painting, and dog training.

Recent Publications

Kearns , C.A. (anticipated publication 2003). Linaceae. invited chapter for book: Flowering Plant Families of Tropical America. New York Botanical Garden and Princeton University Press.

Kearns , C.A. and J.D. Thomson., 2001. book: The Natural History of Bumblebees: a sourcebook for investigations. University of Colorado Press.

Kearns , C. A. 2001. North American dipteran pollinators: assessing their value and conservation status. Conservation Ecology 5(1): 5. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss1/art5

Kearns , C.A., D.W. Inouye, N. Waser. 1998. Endangered Mutualisms: the conservation biology of plant-pollinator interactions. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 29:83-112.