Nina Leopold Bradley (born Nina Leopold) (August 4, 1917 – May 25, 2011) was an American conservationist, researcher and writer.

Biography

Her father was the ecologist

Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his ...

. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in geography from the

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. During WW II she worked as an assistant to Thomas Park on the '' Tribolium'' project at the University of Chicago. She was the senior author of the 1999 article ''Phenological changes reflect climate change in Wisconsin'', which has over 700 citations. She married the zoologist William H. Elder in 1941. Working together, they studied wildlife in Illinois and Missouri. They had two daughters and did field work together in Hawaii and Africa. Their marriage ended in divorce. In 1971 she married the geologist Charles Bradley.

Death and legacy

She died May 25, 2011, aged 93. In 2013, Bradley was posthumously inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame.

References

External links

The Aldo Leopold Foundation

Aldo Leopold's Children
in the Encyclopedia of Earth * * * 1917 births 2011 deaths American conservationists People from Baraboo, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Writers from Boston Writers from Wisconsin Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico 20th-century American writers Women conservationists American women activists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women {{environmentalist-stub