{"id":2804,"date":"2015-06-10T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2015-06-10T22:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T22:31:57","slug":"chaney-r-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/chaney-r-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph W. Chaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph W. Chaney<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Chicago, IL 8\/24\/1890; died 3\/3\/1971<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Chicago (B.S. 1912, Ph.D. 1919)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>The ecological significance of the Eagle Creek flora of the Colorado River gorge<\/em>. (J. Geol. 26:577-592)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"J Harlen Bretz\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/bretz-j-h\/\">J Harlen Bretz<\/a> (confirmed by Bretz)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Thanked <a title=\"H. C. Cowles\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cowles-h-c\/\">H. C. Cowles<\/a> in his dissertation for assistance in ecological interpretations. Not primarily a plant ecologist, but included here because some of his descendents clearly were.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Iowa 1919-22; California 1931-57.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"H. L. Mason\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/mason-h-l\/\">H. L. Mason<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived papers:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/oskicat.berkeley.edu\/record=b10879433%7ES1\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Oral history transcript at Berkeley<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Mentioned as a correspondent in <a href=\"http:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/mm78032706\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C Merriam Papers at Library of Congress<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/people.wku.edu\/charles.smith\/chronob\/CHAN1890.htm\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smith bios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph W. Chaney Born: Chicago, IL 8\/24\/1890; died 3\/3\/1971 Education: Chicago (B.S. 1912, Ph.D. 1919) Dissertation title: The ecological significance of the Eagle Creek flora of the Colorado River gorge. (J. Geol. 26:577-592) Adviser: J Harlen Bretz (confirmed by Bretz) Comments: Thanked H. C. Cowles in his dissertation for assistance in ecological interpretations. Not primarily a plant ecologist, but included&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}