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Julie Lockwood
Julie Lockwood was a faculty member at the University of California- Santa Cruz before she began her career as an associate professor at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where she is affiliated with the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. She teaches biology, zoology, ecology, and conservation biology in the Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Building on Cook. Her research centers around conservation biology, biogeography, and invasion ecology, and she also maintains a lab where students actively partake in research and published over 80 articles. In addition, Julie serves on the board for Biological Invasions and as the Americas Editor for Biological Conservation and as an editorial board member for Biological Invasions.

Biography
Early Years

Julie Lockwood was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up in a farm in the suburban outskirts of Atlanta, Julie was not exposed to science and instead devoted much of her time playing sports. With adventurous parents, Julie and her two siblings were often on the road in their family Volkswagen bus, traveling from Atlanta to Seattle and once to the Bahamas. These spontaneous road trips changed Julie in that they not only opened her eyes and mind to the world, but also encouraged her to embark on boundless exploration. Traveling kindled her never-ending curiosity of the world.

Since both her parents grew up lacking financial stability, they were committed to education and placed great value on it. While her mother spent her childhood in a farm, Julie’s father often moved around the country to wherever her grandfather found work. Julie’s parents believed that education provided the outlet for an individual to escape poverty. Even after having three children, Julie’s mother decided to get college education, which provided financial equilibrium. Her father was supportive of her mother’s pursuit for a teaching degree to the extent that he once fell asleep in the shower after taking care of the children and working at the construction site. Julie had not doubt that her parents would send her off to college. In fact, her mother was willing to sell off the farm if that was what it would take to further her daughter’s education.

Education [[File:Lockwood Lab 2013.JPG|313x313px|Dr. Julie Lockwood, family, and current lab students
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She graduated from Georgia Southern College with a bachelors degree in Biology in 1990. She received her Master’s degree in Biology in 1991 from Georgia southern university. She wrote her Master’s thesis on morphology, competition and the structure of some introduced passerine communities. She went on to pursue her Ph.D in Zoology from the University of Tennessee, completing it in 1997. Her Ph.D dissertation was based on assembling ecological communities: investigations into theory and practice. Her postdoctoral paper was more focused on patterns in biological invasions.

Awards & Honors

 * Academic All American, 1987
 * Science Alliance Graduate Student Award of Excellence, Univ. of Tennessee, Division of Biology; 1996
 * Awarded five-year Pepper-Gibberson Endowed Chairship, Co-held with Dennis Kelso, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (Declined), 2002
 * Distinguished Graduate Alumna, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, 2004
 * Principal Investigator, Critical Ecosystems Science Initiative, National Park Service for Fire effects on Cape Sable seaside sparrows, 2005
 * Biology Alumna of the Year, Georgia Southern University, 2011

Books

 * 1) B. Maslo and J.L. Lockwood (eds). 2014. Coastal Conservation. Cambridge University Press
 * 2) Lockwood, J.L., M.F. Hoopes, and M.P. Marchetti. 2013. Invasion Ecology, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell Press, UK.
 * 3) Blackburn, T.M., J.L. Lockwood, and P. Cassey. 2009. Avian Invasions: The Ecology and Evolution of Exotic Birds. Oxford Avian Biology Series, Oxford University Press.
 * 4) Lockwood, J.L., M.F. Hoopes, and M.P. Marchetti. 2007. Invasion Ecology. Blackwell Scientific Press, UK.
 * 5) Lockwood, J.L. and McKinney, M. editors. 2001. Biotic Homogenization. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York

Experience with Sexism
Throughout Julie’s professional  career, her encounters with gender discrimination were minimal. During her brief stay Louisiana State University, Julie was aware that it was rare for women to successfully complete the university’s Wildlife Biology graduate program. Although the faculty did not engage in gender bias actions, Julie noticed that activities were catered to the interest of men and not women. Her second encounter with gender bias happened when Julie studied at the University of Tennessee. In the biology building, the men’s restroom had a sign that read “faculty”, whereas “staff” was imprinted on the women’s restroom doors.