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Mimi R. Koehl

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Mimi A. R. Koehl
Alma materGettysburg College and Duke University
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
FieldsMarine biology
Doctoral advisorStephen A. Wainwright

Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, biomechanist, and professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at University of California, Berkeley,[1] and head of the Koehl Lab.[2] She is a MacArthur Fellow from the class of 1990[3]

Early life and education

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Koehl grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her father was a physics professor, from whom she learned math, and her mother was an artist who sold portrait paintings. Koehl has an older brother. As a child, she helped her father in his workshop, where she learned how to use tools.[4]

M. A. R. Koehl enrolled at Gettysburg College as an art major, and switched to biology after taking a biology class as part of her degree requirements. She graduated from Gettysburg College magna cum laude, with a B.A. in biology. After graduation she work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a lab technician for a summer. She began her studies at Duke University in the fall of 1970, where she studied under Stephen A. Wainwright and graduated with a Ph.D. in zoology.[4] She was a Postdoctoral Fellow (1976-1977) at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, where she studied with Richard R. Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

She was diagnosed with dyslexia in her mid-forties, and has talked about how it shaped the way she sees the world, and how it influenced her love for fluid mechanics and biology.[5]

Research

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Koehl broadly studies how body structure and physical environment affect an organism's mechanical function in nature, looking across many levels of biological organization. Scientific techniques utilized in Koehl's laboratory range from fluid and solid mechanics to ecological quadrat sampling.

She has studied how marine larvae swim and feed in turbulent flows,[6] and how organisms like kelp, seagrass and coral use currents and waves.[7] Additionally, she has studied the role of hair-bearing appendages in swimming organisms, to both understand their role in propulsion and sensing.[8][9]

Selected publications

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  • Koehl, M.A.R. and M.G. Hadfield. 2004. "Soluble settlement cue in slowly-moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces". J. Mar. Systems[10]
  • Koehl, M.A.R. 2004. "Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: Functional shifts caused by changes in speed". J. Biomech. 37:789-795.[11]
  • Koehl, M.A.R. 2003. "Physical modelling in biomechanics". Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 358:1589–1596.[12]
  • Koehl, M.A.R., J.R. Koseff, J.P. Crimaldi, M.G. McCay, T. Cooper, M.B. Wiley, and P.A. Moore. 2001. "Lobster sniffing: Antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume". Science 294:1948–1951[13]
  • Koehl, M.A.R., K.J. Quillin, and C. Pell. 2000. "Mechanical design of fiber-wound hydraulic skeletons: The stiffening and straightening of embryonic notochords". Am. Zool. 40:28-41.
  • Koehl, M.A.R.. "The Fluid Mechanics of Arthropod Sniffing in Turbulent Odor Plumes", Chemical Senses 2006 31(2):93-105[14]
  • Koehl, M.A.R.. "A Life Outside". Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci. 2024. 16: 17.1–17.23[5]

Awards and honors

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The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Comparative Biomechanics has named the annual best student oral presentation the "Mimi A.R. Koehl and Steven Wainwright Award" [1] .

Outreach

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She appeared on PBS Nova in the February 1980 episode "Living Machines".[26] Her research has been featured extensively in the media, including Science News,[27] Discover Magazine, Science,[28] The New York Times,[29] Scientific American, Duke Magazine [2],

She has been featured and profiled in many other publications, including the series of children's book "Women's Adventures in Science", published by the National Academy of Sciences,[30] the book "Agassiz’s Legacy: Scientists’ Reflections on the Value of Field Experience", written by Elizabeth Gladfelter,[31] the book "Notable Women Scientists in the Life Sciences" by Shearer and Shearer, where she appears on the cover,[32] and "Gifted Woman" by Schatz.[33] She was also profiled in the Berkeleyan.[34]

References

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  1. ^ "Koehl Lab - About Mimi Koehl".
  2. ^ "Koehl Lab - Lab Research".
  3. ^ "Mimi R. Koehl". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  4. ^ a b c School, The Graduate. "Comparative Biomechanics Pioneer Named 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient | The Graduate School". gradschool.duke.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  5. ^ a b Koehl, M.A.R. (2024-01-17). "A Life Outside". Annual Review of Marine Science. 16 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-032223-014227. ISSN 1941-1405.
  6. ^ Monthiller, Rémi; Loisy, Aurore; Koehl, Mimi A. R.; Favier, Benjamin; Eloy, Christophe (2022-08-05). "Surfing on Turbulence: A Strategy for Planktonic Navigation". Physical Review Letters. 129 (6): 064502. arXiv:2110.10409. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.064502. ISSN 0031-9007.
  7. ^ Koehl, Mimi A R; Silk, Wendy K (2021-03-15). "How kelp in drag lose their ruffles: environmental cues, growth kinematics, and mechanical constraints govern curvature". Journal of Experimental Botany. 72 (10): 3677–3687. doi:10.1093/jxb/erab111. ISSN 0022-0957.
  8. ^ Mead, Kristina S.; Koehl, Mimi A. R.; Stacey, Mark T. (2002-01-01). "Molecule capture by olfactory antennules: Mantis shrimp". Journal of Mathematical Biology. 44 (1): 1–30. doi:10.1007/s002850100111. ISSN 0303-6812.
  9. ^ Cheer, A.Y.L.; Koehl, M.A.R. (November 1987). "Paddles and rakes: Fluid flow through bristled appendages of small organisms". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 129 (1): 17–39. doi:10.1016/S0022-5193(87)80201-1.
  10. ^ Koehl, M.A.R.; Hadfield, M.G. (August 2004). "Soluble settlement cue in slowly moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces". Journal of Marine Systems. 49 (1–4): 75–88. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2003.06.003.
  11. ^ Koehl, M.A.R. (June 2004). "Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: functional shifts caused by changes in speed". Journal of Biomechanics. 37 (6): 789–795. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2003.06.001.
  12. ^ Koehl, M. A. R. (2003-09-29). van Leeuwen, J.; Aerts, P. (eds.). "Physical modelling in biomechanics". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 358 (1437): 1589–1596. doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1350. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 1693254. PMID 14561350.
  13. ^ Koehl, M. A. R.; Koseff, Jeffrey R.; Crimaldi, John P.; McCay, Michael G.; Cooper, Tim; Wiley, Megan B.; Moore, Paul A. (2001-11-30). "Lobster Sniffing: Antennule Design and Hydrodynamic Filtering of Information in an Odor Plume". Science. 294 (5548): 1948–1951. doi:10.1126/science.1063724. ISSN 0036-8075.
  14. ^ Koehl, M.A.R. (2006-02-01). "The Fluid Mechanics of Arthropod Sniffing in Turbulent Odor Plumes". Chemical Senses. 31 (2): 93–105. doi:10.1093/chemse/bjj009. ISSN 1464-3553.
  15. ^ "Mimi A. R. Koehl – NAS". nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  16. ^ "Society Awards". American Society of Biomechanics. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  17. ^ "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  18. ^ "Mimi A. R. Koehl | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  19. ^ "Mimi A. R. Koehl – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  20. ^ Parking, Directions. "Academy Fellows | California Academy of Sciences". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  21. ^ "Rachel Carson Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  22. ^ 2009 ASLO Martin Award to Mimi Koehl and Rudy Strickler. 2018-12-04. Retrieved 2024-10-16 – via YouTube.
  23. ^ "Address by Mimi A.R. Koehl". Commencement 2025. 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  24. ^ "ISB Announces 2009 Muybridge Medal Awardee - Prof. Mimi Koehl". Biomch-L. 2009-01-13. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  25. ^ "APS Fellowship Division of Fluid Dynamics Fellowship". American Physical Society. October 2024.
  26. ^ "Nova | Past Television Programs | Season 7: January - December 1980 | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  27. ^ "The physics of mosquito takeoffs shows why you don't feel a thing". 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  28. ^ "Fanning the Flame". Science. 289 (5487): 2007. 2000-09-22. doi:10.1126/science.289.5487.2007b. ISSN 0036-8075.
  29. ^ Chang, Kenneth (December 2002). "Nature's Secret to Building for Strength: Flexibility". The New York Times.
  30. ^ Nature's Machines: The Story of Biomechanist Mimi Koehl. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-309-09559-4.
  31. ^ Gladfelter, Elizabeth Higgins (2002-11-07). Agassiz's Legacy: Scientists' Reflections on the Value of Field Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-770012-9.
  32. ^ Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara S. (1996-06-10). Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-29302-3.
  33. ^ Schatz, Howard (1992). Gifted Woman. Pacific Photographic Press. ISBN 978-1-881021-00-1.
  34. ^ "03.08.2006 - Researchers reach a new audience". newsarchive.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
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