biology

Rowan Lockwood

Rowan Lockwood is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rowan Lockwood rather than just read about it. In short: Rowan Lockwood is an American paleobiologist specializing in environmental change and the ecology of fossil marine invertebrates. She is professor of geology at the College of William & Mary, where she was awarded the university’s Jefferson Teaching Award in 2009.

Key takeaways

Rowan Lockwood belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Rowan Lockwood to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Rowan Lockwood from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Rowan Lockwood is an American paleobiologist specializing in environmental change and the ecology of fossil marine invertebrates. She is professor of geology at the College of William & Mary, where she was awarded the university’s Jefferson Teaching Award in 2009. Lockwood has served as the president-elect of the Paleontological Society since 2024. Lockwood is from Rockford, Illinois and attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She earned a B.A. in biology and organismal biology, cum laude, from Yale College. In 1993, Lockwood won a Rhodes Scholarship and Marshall Scholarship. She declined the former and completed a M.Sc. from the University of Bristol as a Marshall Scholar. She earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago. Her 2001 dissertation was titled Extinction and Rebound: Evolutionary Patterns in Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Bivalves. Her committee included David Jablonski, Michael LaBarbera, Michael Foote, Barry Chemoff, and Jack Sepkoski.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rowan Lockwood

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rowan Lockwood claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rowan Lockwood before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rowan Lockwood ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rowan Lockwood

In research: Rowan Lockwood appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rowan Lockwood in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rowan Lockwood is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American biologists, 21st-century American women biologists, Alumni of the University of Bristol, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rowan Lockwood outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Rowan Lockwood in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Rowan Lockwood means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Rowan Lockwood out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rowan Lockwood in simple terms?

Why does Rowan Lockwood matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Rowan Lockwood?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Rowan Lockwood.