Background
Kessel, Brina was born on November 20, 1925 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Daughter of Marcel and Quinta (Cattell) Kessel.
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Brina Kessel
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Bachelor of Science (Albert R. Brand Bird Song Foundation scholar), Cornell Univercity, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1951; Master of Science (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation fellow), University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1949.
Career
Student assistant, Patuxent Research Refuge, 1946; student teaching assistant, Cornell Univercity, 1945-1947; graduate assistant, Cornell Univercity, 1947-1948, 49-51; instructor biological science, U. Alaska, summer 1951; assistant professor biological science, U. Alaska, 1951-1954; associate professor zoology, U. Alaska, 1954-1959; professor zoology, U. Alaska, 1959-1996; head department biological science, U. Alaska, 1957-1966; dean, U. Alaska (College Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources), 1961-1972; curator terrestrial vertebrate music collections, U. Alaska (College Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources), 1972-1990; curator ornithology collection, U. Alaska (College Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources), 1990-1995; administrative associate for academic programs, graduate and undergraduate, director academic advising, office of chancellor, U. Alaska (College Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources), 1973-1980; senior scientist, U. Alaska, since 1996. Project director U. Alaska ecological investigation for Atomic Energy Commission Project Chariot, 1959-1963. Ornithological investigations Northwest Alaska pipeline, 1976-1981, SusitnaHydroelectric Project, 1980-1983.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ornithologists' Union (vice president 1977, president-elect 1990-1992, president 1992-1994), Arctic Institute North America. Member Wilson, Cooper ornith. societies, Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Pacific Seabird Group, Association Field Ornithologists, Sigma Xi (president U. Alaska 1957), Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Delta Epsilon.
Connections
Married Raymond B. Roof, June 19, 1957 (deceased 1968).
