Esther Fussell Byrnes

Esther Fussell Byrnes (1867–1946) was an American biologist and science teacher. She was one of the first women copepodologists—scientists who study copepods. She was a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as the American Society of Naturalists.

She left and went to teach in New York at the Girls High School, Brooklyn in their Department of Physiology and Biology until her retirement from teaching in 1932. During this time, she was a member of the New York Science Teachers Association.

In 1940, she became director of Mount Desert Biological Laboratory, Maine. and her work at Bryn Mawr focused on the study of limb regeneration in amphibians as well as studying cyclops, a freshwater species of crustacean. Genetic Association New York State Science Teachers' Association North Central Community League of Philadelphia Marine Biological Association Society of Naturalists

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