Kate Jackson, PhD

ASF Team Kate Jackson - Director of Herpetology

Herpetologist Kate Jackson is a Professor of Biology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Toronto, and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the herpetological diversity of the Congo River drainage basin and on the morphology and evolution of snakes. Over the past 2+ decades she has carried out fieldwork in the Republic of Congo, conducting research into the herpetology of part of the world that has been neglected by science due to the extreme challenges of working in that environment. She is the author of several books, including Snakes of Central and Western Africa (Johns Hopkins University Press 2019) with collaborator Jean-Philippe Chippaux, as well as numerous peer-reviewed papers, and this online genus-level key to the snakes of West and Central Africa.