Ülle Kukk (born 18 November 1937 in Tartu) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n botanist and conservationist.

Education and career

She was born in Tartu and graduated from the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in 1960. 1960–1962 she continued to work in the university and also in the Institute of Experimental Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. From 1965 to 1975 she worked as a member of the research staff at the

Tallinn Botanic Garden Tallinn Botanic Garden ( et, Tallinna Botaanikaaed), is a botanical garden in Tallinn, Estonia. It is located on the right bank of the Pirita River, in the Kloostrimetsa forest in Pirita district. With an area of , it is the largest in Esto ...

. From 1976 to 1996 she worked for the , and since 1996, she has worked for in the Institute of the Environmental Protection of the

Estonian University of Life Sciences The Estonian University of Life Sciences ( Estonian: ''Eesti Maaülikool'', EMÜ) located in Tartu, Estonia, is the former Estonian Agricultural University, which was established in 1951 and renamed and restructured in November 2005. Eesti Maa� ...

Research

Kukk's research has addressed Estonian protected plants and indigenous ornamental plants, and she has been engaged in the distribution of rare and protected plants, biology, monitoring and protection. She is one of the founders and a board member of the Estonian Orchid Protection Club (). Kukk is a member of the

Berne Convention The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, was an international assembly held in 1886 in the Swiss city of Bern by ten European countries with the goal to agree on a set of leg ...

's Expert Group on flora, and she was a co-author of the "Estonian Red Book" established in 1998.

Personal

She was married to phycologist and conservationist Erich Kukk (1928–2017).

Selected publications

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References

20th-century Estonian botanists 1937 births Living people People from Tartu University of Tartu alumni Estonian University of Life Sciences faculty 21st-century Estonian botanists {{Estonia-botanist-stub