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In Remembrance: Estella B. Leopold ’55PhD Died on February 25 2024

Estella Bergere Leopold passed away on February 25, 2024, at the age of 97. She earned her doctorate at Yale in botany, worked for two decades at the US Geological Survey in Denver, and then became director of the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington, along the way establishing her renown as a paleoecologist and conservationist.

The New York Times ran a full story on March 5, 2024.

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