Jacqueline McGlade
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UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | |
Thesis | Genotypic and phenotypic variation in the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchell)[1] (1980) |
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Married to a Masai chief |
Jacqueline Myriam McGlade (born May 30, 1955) is a British-born Canadian marine biologist and environmental informatics professor. Her research concerns the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, climate change and scenario development. She is currently professor of resilience and sustainable development at the University College London Institute for Global Prosperity and Faculty of Engineering, UK, and professor at Strathmore University in the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Kenya.
She was executive director of the European Environment Agency from 2003 to 2013, where she was on leave from her post as professor of environmental informatics at University College London.
Between 2014 and 2017 she was chief scientist and director of the Science Division of the United Nations Environment Programme based in Nairobi. From 2017 to 2019 she was professor and director of the Sekenani Research Centre of the Maasai Mara University, Kenya.
Education
Professor McGlade completed her BSc in Marine Biology, Biochemistry and Soil Science at Bangor University (then known as the University College of North Wales), UK, in 1977. She obtained her PhD degree in 1980 on aquatic sciences and zoology from the University of Guelph in Canada. In 1987, she obtained a MA degree from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
Honorary titles
- 2013 honorary fellow, Institution of Environmental Sciences
- 2004 honorary doctorate, University of Kent, U.K.[2]
- 2003 honorary fellow, University of Wales, U.K.
- 1998 honorary professor, University of Warwick, U.K.
Research and science policy
Theoretical ecology, spatial dynamics, ecosystems and science-policy
McGlade’s PhD research on the mathematical and statistical analysis of the phenotypic and genotypic variability showed the critical importance of spatial dynamics in determining evolutionary divergence and ecological sustainability in freshwater and marine fish populations. This work led to her establishing the first population dynamics and genetics laboratory and developing spatial
From 1987-1990, Professor McGlade continued her research in systematics, ichthyology, population dynamics and coastal issues in Cambridge as the Adrian Fellow at Darwin College, at the International Federation of Institutes of Advanced Study in the Netherlands, and Cranfield Institute in the UK.
In 1988 Professor McGlade was appointed as a Director at KFA (now FZ) Jülich in Germany and led research on
From 1998-2000, she was Director of NERC's Center for Coastal and Marine Science. She also served as a Board Member of the Environment Agency England and Wales and as a member of the Advisory Council for the
European Environment Agency
Professor McGlade was appointed as executive director to the European Environment Agency from 2003 to 2013.
McGlade was a firm advocate of informing and involving the public in all aspects of the environment. To this end, she strove to strengthen the information and feedback channels between researchers, public and policymakers, making environmental information understandable and accessible through technological media.
United Nations Environment Programme
In 2013, McGlade joined
Academic prizes and scholarships
- Global Citizen Award, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association, 2013
- Masaryk Gold Medal, University of Brno (Czech Republic), 2005
- Minerva Prize (Germany), 1992
- Member of Honour, International Institute for Dynamical Systems (Romania), 1991
- Jubileum Award, Chalmers Technical University (Sweden), 1991
- Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Award in Genetics (USA), 1980
- Best Research Paper, American Fisheries Society (USA), 1979
- Commonwealth Scholarship (Canada), 1977–80
- Rotary International Graduate Scholarship (Indonesia), 1977
Research interests
- Metrics of sustainability, resilience and prosperity
- Analysis of risk and uncertainty in complex systems
- Development & implementation of enviroinformatics, including definition of metadata structures, semantic nets and data analysis
- Fuzzy-logic expert systems for environmental management and environmental forecasting
- Ecological economics
- Evolutionary ecology, with special reference to systematics of fishes and marine organisms
- Application of earth observation data to ecosystem analysis and management
- Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of terrestrial and aquatic systems
- Artificial ecologies
- Integrated natural resource management
References
- ^ WorldCat, Retrieved on 2012-12-27.
- ^ "Honorary graduates 2000-09". University of Kent. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ "Jacqueline McGlade leaves the EEA after 10 years as Executive Director," EEA website, May 31, 2013. Accessed: May 3.1, 2013.
- ^ "Professor Jacqueline McGlade appointed UNEP Chief Scientist". Retrieved 2014-12-17.
- ^ "About the Chief Scientist". Retrieved 2016-04-11.