Rosie Woodroffe Rosie Woodroffe Rosemary Brigitte Woodroffe is a British ecologist and academic. Woodroffe was educated at the Somerville College, Oxford and was awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 for research on factors affecting reproductive success in the European badger, "Meles meles L." supervised by David Macdonald. From 1993-1994 she was a research associate at the Institute of Zoology, the research division of the Zoological Society of London. From 1994-1998 she was a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1998 to 2001 she was a lecturer in ecology & epidemiology
River Meles on its banks. No fewer than six small streams flow into the Gulf of İzmir between the northeastern tip of its outlying waters, where old Smyrna was built, to the city's ancient hilltop castle commanding the inner Gulf's southern shores (Kadifekale today, Pagus and Mount Pagus in ancient times) on the slopes of which, according to tradition, Alexander the Great had the dream of refounding a new Smyrna. Among these, the stream which rises ten miles south of the castle and flows round the base of its mountain had acquired the name of Meles in modern times and kept it