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Stanley I. Auerbach Born: Chicago, IL 5/21/1921, died 5/1/2004 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1941, M.S. 1947): Northwestern (Ph.D. 1949) Dissertation title: The centipedes of the Chicago area with special reference to their ecology (Ecol. Mon. 21:97-124) Adviser: Orlando Park (C) Comments: Victor E. Shelford was M. S. adviser. Teaching History: Roosevelt Univ. 1950-54; (Oak Ridge Nat’l. Laboratory 1954-?) Ph. D. Students;…
Frank B. Golley Born: Chicago, IL 9/24/1930; died 10/8/2006 Education: Purdue (B.S. 1952); Washington State (M.S. 1954); Michigan State (Ph.D. 1958) Dissertation title: Energy dynamics of a food chain of the old-field community (Ecol. Mon. 30:187-206) Adviser: Don W. Hayne (C) Comments: Also influenced by Alton A. Lindsey as undergraduate, H. Buechner and Rex Daubenmire as a Master’s student, and…
Henry A. Gleason Born: Dalton City, IL 1/2/1882; died 4/21/1975 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1901; M.A. 1904); Columbia (Ph.D. 1906) Dissertation title: A revision of the North American Vernonieae (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 4:144-245) Adviser: Nathaniel L. Britton (confirmed by B. Maguire) Comments: Influenced by Stephen A. Forbes and Thomas J. Burrill while studying and working in Illinois. For more…
Eugene P. Odum Born: Lake Sunapee, NH 9/17/1913; died 8/10/2002 Education: Univ. of North Carolina (A.B. 1934); Illinois (Ph.D. 1939) Dissertation title: Variations in the heart rate of birds: a study in physiological ecology (Ecol. Mon. 11:299-326) Adviser: S. Charles Kendeigh (C) Comments: Also influenced by Victor E. Shelford Teaching history: Georgia 1940-1984 Others influenced: Robert E. Gordon (M.S.), Monica…
Edgar N. Transeau Born: Williamsport, PA 10/21/1875; died 1/25/1960 Education: Franklin and Marshall Coll. (A.B. 1897); Chicago (1900-01, no degree); Michigan (Ph.D. 1904) Dissertation title: The bog vegetation of the Huron River Valley (Bot. Gaz. 40:351-375, 418-448; 41:17-42) Adviser: F. C. Newcombe (see comments) Comments: Although Newcombe was his official adviser, Transeau’s own writings make it clear that he went…
The Diverse Contributions of J. Roger Bray and Gwendolyn Struik by Orie Loucks, submitted December 23, 2010 J. Roger Bray, through post-PhD collaboration with his former doctoral adviser at Wisconsin, John Curtis, was the lead author of one of the most significant post-war papers in the field of ecology (Bray and Curtis 1957, see Beals 1984). It presented a way…
John W. Marr 1914-1989 Through his teaching and research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, John Marr introduced many students to the ecology of the Front Range of Colorado. In 1951, he founded the Mountain Research Station (today known as INSTAAR), which has introduced hundreds more students—as well as researchers from around the planet—to Niwot Ridge, now a designated LTER,…
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