Kasey E. Barton

Full name: Kasey Elisabeth Barton

Born and raised in: Colorado Springs, Colorado (b. March 9, 1977)

Current residence: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (on the island of Oʻahu)

Curriculum vitae: click here.

Education:

• Cheyenne Mountain High School, 1995, Colorado Springs, CO
• B.S., with Honors, 1999, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
• Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), University of Costa Rica: Graduate Course in Tropical Biology, Summer 2001
• Ph.D., 2007, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO), University of Colorado at Boulder
  Dissertation: "Seedling defense strategies: Effects of plant age, herbivory and competition."
• Post-doc, 2009, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London

Hobbies:

• Foreign language: Spanish (proficient); Italian (intermediate)
• World cultures (travel, food, music, reading)
• Reading (fiction, popular science, social critiques)
• Hiking, running, tennis
• Horticulture

Favorite authors: Katherine Boo, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, David Sedaris, John Steinbeck

Pictures:

• My husband, JSL, and I. (Click here for JSL's homepage.)
• My son, Desmond ("Dezi"), and I. He was born on August 30th, 2007.
• The "flatirons" in Boulder, at Chautauqua park, where JSL and I liked to hike: just a few blocks from where we used to live.
• Exploring plants and insects with my 4-year-old son, Dezi. Sept 5, 2011.
• More to come...

Videos:

My 3-year-old son Dezi helping me collect pua kala seeds at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens on June 13, 2011:

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Last Updated: August 22, 2011
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