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Jill Yager is an American zoologist and cave diver. Yager's research is centered on the conservation of inland caves. She discovered a venomous crustacean species, and she also named its class. Yager was named Cave Scientist of the Year in 2000 and was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame 2000.
Education
Yager received her bachelor's degree from Colorado State University, her Master's of Science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. from Old Dominion University.
Career
Yager mentioned that her interest in underwater exploration began after she read Kon Tiki and Lady with a Spear. She also stated that Jacques Cousteau, who raised public awareness about the ocean, had a significant impact on her. She was inspired by Jane Goodall, whom she regards as "a true hero". Yager's research is centered on the conservation of inland caves, emphasizing that activities occurring above the caves, such as deforestation and pollution, can influence the caves themselves. She started her research in the mid-1970s while residing in the Bahamas. While teaching biology at the high school level there, she began cave diving.
In 1979, Yager discovered the venomous crustacean species Speleonectes lucayensis and she also named its class as Remipedia. The crustaceans resemble centipedes. The class was originally known from the fossil species Tesnusocaris goldichi and Cryptocaris hootchi, but they were not added to Remipedia until 1991. Yager found the crustaceans in an underwater cave that is connected to Grand Bahama, known as the Lucayan Cavern. During her trip to Cuba in August 1999, Yager recorded a National Geographic television series titled Sea Stories. Prior to that, she participated in a Japanese documentary filmed in Mexico and worked on several specials for PBS.
She is a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of the National Speleological Society. At Antioch College, Yager was the professor of zoology, ecology and environmental sciences from September 1989 to June 2007. Yager was named Cave Scientist of the Year in 2000 and was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2000.
References
- "Jill Yager". Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
- ^ Rase, Karen (March 9, 2000). "Cave work earns Antioch professor national honors". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
- Yager, Jill (May 2016). "Collecting and Processing Remipedes". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 36 (3): 405–407. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002433.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development--independent agencies appropriations for 1986. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1985. p. 431. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Barlas, Robert (2000). Bahamas. Marshall Cavendish. p. 9. ISBN 9780761409922. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
- Emerson, Michael J.; Schram, Frederick R. (July 1, 1991). "Remipedia Part 2 Paleontology". Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 7.
- "Jill Yager". ResearchGate. Retrieved January 15, 2025.