Dr. Ginny Eckert,
2009 Keynote Speaker

Ginny L. Eckert is Associate Professor at the Juneau Center of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she directs the interdisciplinary graduate program in Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic. Her current research program on invertebrate reproduction and early life history addresses critical questions in the field of marine ecology and fisheries management and is driven by the need to sustainably manage living marine resources. She earned her PhD in Ecology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999, a MS in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1994, and her BA in Biology from Dartmouth in 1990. Her interest in ecological research was sparked on the Dartmouth Biology Foreign Study Program in Tropical Ecology.