Mary Eleanor Power

Mary Eleanor Power
Power at Fort Churchill, Manitoba (August 2011)
Born	(1949-08-22) August 22, 1949 (age 74)
Citizenship	US Citizen
Education	University of Washington (Ph.D) Boston University Marine Program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts (M.S.) Brown University (B.A)
Spouse	William Dietrich
Awards	Member, National Academy of Sciences (Elected 2012) Honorary doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden (2011) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2007) Fellow, California Academy of Sciences (elected 2005) G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (2005) Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists (2004) John and Margaret Gompertz Chair in Integrative Biology (2002-2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Ecology: food webs
Thesis	The grazing ecology of armored catfish in a Panamanian stream

Mary Eleanor Power is Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Power is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,^[1] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the California Academy of Sciences. She holds an honorary doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden, and is a recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (formerly known as the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (2005)), and the Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists (2004).^[2]

Power is a past president of the Ecological Society of America (2009–10)^[3] and the American Society of Naturalists (2005-2006).^[4]

Power and her work are featured prominently in the documentary film, The Serengeti Rules, which was released in 2018.^[5]