The Daily Campus

Issue date: 4/9/04 Section: News

The lecture series is in its seventh year and is developed as a joint effort of a number of departments, primarily within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and organizations from other areas of UConn. Boersma's academic research is in the area of conservation biology, and has focused on seabirds as indicators of environmental change. She has been an adjunct faculty member in the Women's Studies department at the University of Washington and was associate director of the Institute for Environmental Studies from 1987 to 1993. She has also directed the Magellanic Penguin Project at Punta Tombo, in the Chubut province of Argentina, in her role as a scientific fellow for the Wildlife Conservation Society, since 1982. Over the past 14 years, she has carried out research on Magellanic penguins in the south Atlantic, assessing their biological characteristics and the effects of human disturbance and policy changes on their survival. She has also been enlisted to take on numerous national and international leadership and advisory positions in such diverse roles as adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations World Population Conference in Romania, as a member of President Richard Nixon's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities, member of the Board of Trustees of Central Michigan University, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Zero Population Growth. An energetic personality, Boersma has numerous other honors, which include being on the advisory board of Disney's Wild Kingdom since 1994.

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