Mimi R. Koehl

Professor M. A. R. Koehl
Education	B.A., Gettysburg College Ph.D., Duke University
Website	ib.berkeley.edu/labs/koehl/aboutmimi.html

Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, biomechanist and Professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab.

Biography

M. A. R. Koehl graduated from Gettysburg College Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Biology, and Duke University with a Ph.D. in Zoology, where she studied with Steven Wainwright. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington where she studied with Richard Strathmann, and at University of York, where she studied with John Currey.

Research

Koehl has broadly studied how body structure and physical environment affect an organism’s mechanical function in nature. Scientific techniques utilized in Koehl’s laboratory range from fluid and solid mechanics to ecological quadrat sampling.

• Koehl, M.A.R. and M.G. Hadfield. 2004. "Soluble settlement cue in slowly-moving water within coral reefs induces larval adhesion to surfaces". J. Mar. Systems,
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2004. "Biomechanics of microscopic appendages: Functional shifts caused by changes in speed". J. Biomech. 37:789-795.
• Koehl, M.A.R. 2003. "Physical modelling in biomechanics". Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 358:1589-1596.
• Koehl, M.A.R., J.R. Koseff, J.P. Crimaldi, M.G. McCay, T. Cooper, M.B. Wiley, and P.A. Moore. 2001. "Lobster sniffing: Antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume". Science 294:1948-1951
• Koehl, M.A.R., K.J. Quillin, and C. Pell. 2000. "Mechanical design of fiber-wound hydraulic skeletons: The stiffening and straightening of embryonic notochords". Am. Zool. 40:28-41.
• "The Fluid Mechanics of Arthropod Sniffing in Turbulent Odor Plumes", Chemical Senses 2006 31(2):93-105

Awards and honors

The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Division of Comparative Biomechanics has named the annual best student oral presentation the “Mimi A.R. Koehl and Steven Wainwright Award”[1]

• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Borelli Award, American Society of Biomechanics
• 1990 MacArthur Fellows Program
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Fellow, California Academy of Science
• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
• Rachel Carson Award, American Geophysical Union
• John Martin Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Honorary Degree, Bates College
• Muybridge Award, International Society of Biomechanics
• The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award Duke University