Diana Beresford-Kroeger, 2010 WINGS Elected Fellow

"Apply the virtue of simplicity." — Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Scientist, Author

Born: 1944-07-25

Hometown: Merrickville, Ontario, Canada

Education: Botany, Medical Biochemistry, Organic and Nuclear Chemistry, Surgery

Achievements

Discoveries: Cathodoluminescence under electron bombardment

Expeditions: Botanical Explorations in Europe and North America

Biography

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry.  She lives in Ontario, Canada.  Beresford-Kroeger is a native of Ireland who has bachelor's degrees in medical biochemistry and botany, and has worked as a Ph.D.-level researcher at the University of Ottawa school of medicine, where she published several papers on the chemistry of artificial blood.  She calles herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring together aborigiional healing, Western medicine, and botany to advocate an unusual role for trees.  

(Bio from UMich Press)

Diana Discusses Climate Change 

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Good tea, lens, scalpel, collecting bags, folding shovel

Heroes: Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Publications

Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the Planet [Paperback]
Diana Beresford-Kroeger (Author)
Product Details

Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional (October 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0472051148
ISBN-13: 978-0472051144

The Global Forest [Hardcover]

Diana Beresford-Kroeger (Author)
Product Details

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (May 13, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670021741
ISBN-13: 978-0670021741

Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest [Paperback]

Diana Beresford-Kroeger (Author)
Paperback: 214 pages
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional (October 3, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0472068512
ISBN-13: 978-0472068517