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Kim Alan Chapman
University of Minnesota
Imagine getting a job when you grow up and getting paid for doing what you loved to do when you were a kid. That's what happened to Kim Chapman, an ecologist who has spent 22 years exploring and studying the woods, wetlands, prairies and savannas of the Midwest. Kim worked hard to earn a bachelor's and master's degree in biology and is now back in school finishing a doctorate at the University of Minnesota.
In his research, Kim is investigating the area north of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, looking for features of the environment that explain differences in the kinds of birds he sees in original savannas and in savannas that were turned into farmland and suburbs. Kim brings back amazing things for his children, Maddy (8) and William (5): turkey feathers, snake skins, a drawing of a badger footprint he found. Kim loves to write about what he sees and learns. Recently, a book he wrote with two other people about prairies, Valley of Grass, won a Minnesota Book Award. Isn't being a scientist great!?
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