Education
University of Washington.
University of Washington.
She is a past president of the Ecological Society of America (2009-2010) and the American Society of Naturalists (2005-2006). Power"s research speciality is in river food web ecology. Her study of armored catfish was part of the early research on ideal free distribution in the wild.
Power earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Washington in 1981 and has been professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley since 1987.
She has also been a faculty manager of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Mendocino County since 1989. Power has worked primarily on food web, landscape and community ecology in the Eel River of California.
Her research primarily focuses on species attributions influence changes on food webs as well as species interactions in different environmental regimes, with relevance to Biogeomorphology and food web alterations.