Linda Holland, a research biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, will share the Alexander Kowalevsky Medal with her husband Nick Holland, also a research scientist at Scripps. The Kowalevsky Medal was first given out a century ago by the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists in Russia. The award was suspended during World War I and the Russian Revolution and was not reinstituted until 2001. The award is now given annually for distinguished achievements in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative zoology.
The Hollands are being recognized for the work in the study of amphioxus, a small marine animal also known as a lancelet.
Linda Holland joined the Scripps Institute in 1987. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of California, San Diego.