Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, professor at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and head of the Koehl Lab.

She graduated from Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College

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 Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Biology, and Duke University

Duke University

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 with a Ph.D. in Zoology, where she studied with Steven Wainwright.
She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington

University of Washington

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 where she studied with Richard Strathmann, and at University of York

University of York

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, where she studied with John Currey

John Currey

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Awards

• 1990 MacArthur Fellows Program
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• Borelli Award, American Society of Biomechanics
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Guggenheim Fellow

Works

• Koehl, M.A.R. and M.G. Hadfield. 2004. "Soluble settlement cue in slowly-moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces". J. Mar. Systems,
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2004. "Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: Functional shifts caused by changes in speed". J. Biomech. 37:789-795.
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2003. "Physical modelling in biomechanics". Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 358:1589-1596.
• Koehl, M.A.R., J.R. Koseff, J.P. Crimaldi, M.G. McCay, T. Cooper, M.B. Wiley, and P.A. Moore. 2001. "Lobster sniffing: Antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume". Science 294:1948-1951
• Koehl, M.A.R., K.J. Quillin, and C. Pell. 2000. "Mechanical design of fiber-wound hydraulic skeletons: The stiffening and straightening of embryonic notochords". Am. Zool. 40:28-41.
• "The Fluid Mechanics of Arthropod Sniffing in Turbulent Odor Plumes", Chemical Senses 2006 31(2):93-105

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