People in Your Neighborhood: Gabriele Wienhausen invites La Jollans to join her as stewards of environment
Print Gabriele Wienhausen is as passionate about the local environment as she is about educating others to help protect it. The La Jolla resident retired in April from teaching biochemistry and physiology at UC San Diego but hasn’t retired her efforts to teach others to protect the natural spaces that have kept her here for nearly four decades. Born, raised and educated in Germany, Wienhausen arrived in La Jolla more than 38 years ago for a 12-month stay to research biochemistry at UCSD, but she was so enamored of the university and the local natural environment that she and her husband nev...