Angela Kepler

Angela Kay Kepler is a New Zealand-born naturalist and author.
She is a graduate of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and has a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi and a doctorate from Cornell University, New York in 1972. She also undertook a one-year post doctoral position at Oxford University.
She has conducted research in Hawaii, Alaska, Russia and the Caribbean. Two bird species have been named for her: the elfin-woods warbler , a Puerto Rican endemic; and the extinct Hawaiian rail Porzana keplerorum.
She has a farm on Maui and grows some 32 different banana varieties.