Nina Leopold Bradley (born Nina Leopold) (August 4, 1917 – May 25, 2011) was an American
conservationist, researcher and writer.
Biography
Her father was the ecologist
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, Philosophy, philosopher, Natural history, naturalist, scientist, Ecology, ecologist, forester, Conservation biology, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a profes ...
.
She graduated with a bachelor's degree in geography from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...
. During WW II she worked as an assistant to Thomas Park on the ''
Tribolium'' project at the University of Chicago. She was the senior author of the 1999 article ''Phenological changes reflect climate change in Wisconsin'',
which has over 700 citations.
She married the zoologist
William H. Elder in 1941. Working together, they studied wildlife in Illinois and Missouri. They had two daughters and did field work together in Hawaii and Africa.
Their marriage ended in divorce. In 1971 she married the geologist
Charles C. Bradley.
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Death and legacy
She died May 25, 2011, aged 93.
In 2013, Bradley was posthumously inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.
References
External links
The Aldo Leopold Foundation
Aldo Leopold's Children
in the Encyclopedia of Earth
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1917 births
2011 deaths
American conservationists
People from Baraboo, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Writers from Boston
Writers from Wisconsin
Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico
20th-century American writers
Conservationists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
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