Mireya Correa

Mireya Correa
Born(1940-02-06)February 6, 1940
Panama
DiedNovember 22, 2022(2022-11-22) (aged 82)
Panama
Alma materUniversity of Panama, Duke University
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsDirector of the Herbarium at the University of Panama

Mireya Dorotea Correa Arroyo[1] (February 6, 1940 – November 22, 2022) was a Panamanian botanist and plant taxonomist known for her work with the flora of Panama.[2]

Career

Correa graduated from the University of Panama with a degree in biology and chemistry in 1963. She received a master's degree in botany from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1967. Her area of expertise was the systematic study of vascular plants with emphasis of the flora of Panama. She was a professor at the University of Panama and pioneered formal botanical studies in Panama. She became a scientific collaborator at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in 1987.[2][3]

She was the Director of the Herbarium at the University of Panama, a research and teaching facility of the Natural Science Faculty from the time of its founding in 1968. The collection contains more than seventy thousand specimens. It has been part of the Network of Mesoamerican and Caribbean Herbaria since 1995.[4] She created an online database that digitized 12,000 of the specimens and records of the herbarium.[5]

Works

Library resources about
Mireya Correa
By Mireya Correa

The standard author abbreviation M.D.Correa is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Literature

  • Correa, M.D.; dos Santos Silva, Tânia Regina (2005). Drosera (Droseraceae). Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN 9780893274634. OCLC 255326402.
  • Correa, M.D. (1998). Arboles y arbustos. Vol. 2. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. OCLC 183079367.
  • Correa, M.D. (1998). Arboles y Arbustos. Vol. 1. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. OCLC 183079354.
  • Correa, M.D.; Galdames, C. (1998). Guía preliminar de campo flora del Parque Nacional Altos de Campana, Panamá. Chicago: Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum of Natural History, The Andrew Mellon Foundation. OCLC 44114654.
  • D'Arcy, W.G.; Correa, M.D., eds. (1985). The Botany and Natural History of Panama: La Botánica e Historia Natural de Panamá. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Correa, M.D. (1974). Lista de plantas existentes en el Herbario de la Universidad de Panamá. Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Farmacia, Universidad de Panamá. OCLC 24084114.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Ortega, Eliened (7 December 2022). "Despiden a la primera botánica panameña". Cultura. Metro Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Currículum Vítae. Mireya D. Correa A." (PDF). CFA. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Panama's SENACYT honors three STRI scientists" (PDF). STRI News. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. 7 June 2013. pp. 1–4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b Edgardo I. Garrido-Pérez. "Mireya Correa: un reconocimiento muy bien justificado" (PDF). Acta Biológica Panamensis. Vol. 1, 107. COBIOPA. Colegio de Biólogos de Panamá (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Smithsonian scientist receives 2008 Medal for Excellence in tropical botany". EurekAlert! (www.eurekalert.org). AAAS. 7 May 2008. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  M.D.Correa.
  7. ^ Dorr, L.J. (26 April 2008). "José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany". Smithsonian NMNH Department of Botany (botany.si.edu). Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  8. ^ Kapsalis, Effie (11 March 2015). "Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mireya Correa". Smithsonian Institution Archives (siarchives.si.edu). Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.