HAVERHILL, MA, December 8, 2022, Judith Marie Chupasko has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Leveraging more than three decades of excellence in zoology, Ms. Chupasko has earned distinction as a mammalogist. In this capacity, she served as a Curatorial Associate in mammalogy for Harvard University from 1989 to 2017. During her tenure, she focused her efforts on training and maintaining the department of mammology, including the staff, students, interns and volunteers. She would curate the specimen collection for the museum while caring for the field station where they prepare all the mammal specimens, helping visiting scientists from around the world who needed to utilize their 87,000 mammal specimens for their research. She was also a valued member of the American Society of Mammologists and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Chupasko was an adjunct professor of Environmental Biology for Boston College from 1992 to 1999. Prior to embarking on her professional journey, she earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in 1983, where she was mentored by Lynn Raphael and Dr. Gilbert Dryden. She then attained a Master of Science in zoology from Louisiana State University in 1987.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Chupasko has traveled worldwide to study and collect scientific mammal specimens for the museum collection. She has seen the Southern Cross from a boat in the Amazon River while studying tropical mammals and had a troop of chimpanzees follow her from the trees while conducting a small mammal study in the Budongo Forest in Uganda. She has also studied timber wolves in the Superior National Forest and studied desert mammals in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Among her professional accomplishments, she was awarded grants from the American Society of Mammologists and The American Museum of Natural History, as well as the Department of Mammalogy at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Within the coming years, Ms. Chupasko intends to work on research of large carnivores, such as mountain lions and wolves, or transition to owning a horse farm where she can teach horse riding. She aspires to establish a business for mammal preparation for scientific collection, traveling to various institutions to prepare their mammals that are backlogged in their storage. Having always loved animals, she grew up in poverty and faced a great deal of challenges in her life as a result. Her pets were a significant source of comfort and affection throughout her life, so she committed herself to learning as much as possible about the animals she loves.