Margaret Bryan Davis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Margaret Bryan Davis

Paleoecologist

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1931

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: earth scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Dr.
Margaret Bryan Davis (née Margaret Bryan; born October 23, 1931) is an American palynologist and paleoecologist, who used pollen data to study the vegetation history of the past 21,000 years (i.e.
since the last ice age).
She showed conclusively that temperate-forest species migrated at different rates and in different directions while forming a changing mosaic of communities.
Early in her career, she challenged the standard methods and prevailing interpretations of the data and fostered rigorous analysis in palynology.
As a leading figure in ecology and paleoecology, she served as president of the Ecological Society of America and the American Quaternary Association and as chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota.
In 1982 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.