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Karen Suzanne Oberhauser (born ca 1956) is an American conservation biologist with a specific interest in monarch butterflies. She studied biology at Harvard College and received a PhD from the University of Minnesota. Oberhauser is a professor in the Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology department at the University of Minnesota.〔 Oberhauser married Don Alstad in 1985; the couple had two daughters. Don died in April 2014 at the age of 67.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Donald N. Alstad '69 )〕 In 2013, she was named a Champion of Change for Citizen Science by the White House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=White House to honor professor Karen Oberhauser as Champion of Change for Citizen Science at ceremony Tuesday )〕 Oberhauser has been director for the Monarchs in the Classroom Program, president of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karen Oberhauser )〕 and director of the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project.〔 Besides publications in scholarly journals, she has also been co-editor for two books published by Cornell Press: * ''The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation'' ISBN 978-0-8014-4188-2 * ''Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Butterfly'' ISBN 978-0-8014-5315-1〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Monarch Butterfly )〕 In 2014, Oberhauser pointed to increased use of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide as a possible factor in the decline of monarch populations in North America. The use of the product on farmland has been linked to a decline in milkweeds, an important food source for the butterflies. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karen Oberhauser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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