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William A. Niering Born: Scotrun, PA 8/28/24; died 8/30/1999 Education: Penn State (B,S. 1948; M.S. 1950); Rutgers (Ph.D. 1952) Dissertation title: The past and present vegetation of High Point State Park, N.J. (Ecol. Mon. 23:127-148) Adviser: Murray F. Buell (C) Other influences: Alvin Grove (undergraduate) Teaching history: Connecticut Coll., 1952-1999. ESA offices and honors: Mercer Award 1967; Secretary 1970 ESA…
George E. Nichols Born: Southington, CT 4/12/1882; died 6/20/39 Education: Yale (B.S. 1904; Ph.D. 1909) Dissertation title: A morphological study of Juniperus communis var. depressa (Bein. Bot. Centralbl. 25:201-241) Adviser: Alexander W. Evans (D) Comments: Spent a year with Henry C. Cowles at Chicago around 1910 Teaching history: Yale 1909-39 Ph.D. students: Frank E. Egler, Charles E. Olmsted ESA offices…
Frederick C. Newcombe Born: 1858; died 1927 Primary specialty: Plant physiology Teaching history: Michigan 1895-1923. Ph. D. Students: Edgar N. Transeau, Frank C. Gates, Walter B. McDougall
Cornelius H. Muller Born: Collinsville, IL 7/22/09; died 1/26/1997 Education: Texas (B.A. 1932, M.A. 1933); Illinois (Ph.D. 1938) Dissertation title: Relations of the vegetation and climatic types in Nuevo Leon, Mexico (Amer. Midl. Nat. 21:687-729) Advisor: Arthur G. Vestal (C) Teaching History: Univ. of California (Santa Barbara) 1945-76; Texas 1974-? (adjunct) Ph. D. Students: Norman L. Christensen Others influenced: Harold…
Harold A. Mooney Born: Santa Rosa, CA 6/1/1932 Education: UC Santa Barbara (A.B. 1957); Duke (M.A. 1958; Ph.D. 1960) Dissertation title: Comparative physiological ecology of Arctic and Alpine populations of Oxyria digyna (Ecol.Monogr. 31:1-29) Advisor: W. D. Billings Comments: Also influenced by C. H. Muller (undergraduate), Ralph O. Slatyer, Harriet Barclay, and Tom Malone. Teaching History: UCLA 1960-68; Stanford 1968-…
Alden Miller Born: Los Angeles, CA 2/4/1906; died 10/9/1965 Education: California (A.B. 1927; Ph.D. 1930) Dissertation title: Systematic revision and natural history of the American shrikes (Laniidae) Advisor: Joseph Grinnell Primary specialty: Ornithology Ph. D. Students: Frank A. Pitelka External link: NAS bibliographic memoir
Born: Bluefield, WV 12/23/1943 Education: Wesleyan (B. A. 1965; M. A. 1968); Yale (M.F.S 1972; Ph.D. 1975) Dissertation title: Mineralization of nitrogen in northern forest ecosystems. Advisors: F. H. Bormann and G. K. Voigt Teaching History: Ecosystems Center, MBL 1976-present; Brown 2007-present Ph.D. Students (Brown-MBL Joint Program): Gillian Galford, Marc Mayes Others influenced: (Post-doctoral Fellows): Richard Bowden, Mark Castro, A….
Peter M. Vitousek Born: Honolulu, HI 1/24/1949 Education: Amherst (B.A. 1971); Dartmouth (Ph.D. 1975) Dissertation title: The regulation of element concentrations in mountain streams in the northeastern United States (Ecol. Monogr. 47:65-87) Adviser: William A. Reiners (C) Comments: Also influenced by Stuart Fisher (undergraduate advisor) Teaching History: Indiana 1975-79; North Carolina 1980-1983; Stanford 1983-present Ph. D. Students: G. Philip Robertson,…
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