trueCollege of Natural Science,Integrative Biology05/04/2023International group honors MSU’s Elise Zipkin for innovative ecology

MSU integrative biologist Elise Zipkin has been honored with the International Recognition of Professional Excellence Prize for her groundbreaking work transforming mountains of data into insights and tools to manage and protect some of the world’s most precious ecology. The prize honors young ecologists who have published uniquely independent, original and/or challenging research representing an important scientific breakthrough, and/or who must work under particularly difficult conditions.

Sue NicholsMSU integrative biologist Elise Zipkin has led her team of students in the Zipkin Quantiative Ecology Lab to explore the decline of monarch butterflies (pictured), rare snakes in Panama and leading model development of seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico. MSU integrative biologist Elise Zipkin was honored with the International Recognition of Professional Excellence Prize by Inter-Research, a German-based scientific publishing organization, for her work to transform data into insights and tools to manage and protect some of the world’s most precious ecology. AwardIBIOInternational Recognition of Professioinal Excellence Prizecomputational modelseebquantitative ecology