{"id":2865,"date":"2015-06-13T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2015-06-13T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:19:23","slug":"cottam-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/cottam-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Cottam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grant Cottam<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Sandy, UT 8\/26\/1918; died 5\/13\/2009<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Utah (B.A. 1939), Wisconsin (Ph.D. 1948)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>The phytosociology of an oak woods in southwestern Wisconsin.<\/em> (Ecology 30:271-287)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"John T. Curtis\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/curtis-j-t\/\">John T. Curtis<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Also influenced by <a title=\"Walter P. Cottam\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cottam-w-p\/\">Walter P. Cottam<\/a>, father and undergraduate adviser.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Hawaii 1948-49; Wisconsin 1949-1986<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph. D. Students:<\/span> <a title=\"P. G. Risser\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/risser-p-g\/\">Paul G. Risser<\/a>.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"D. H. Knight\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/knight-d-h\/\">Dennis H. Knight<\/a> (Ph.D), <a title=\"Robert K. Peet\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/peet-r-k\/\">Robert K. Peet<\/a> (B.A)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived papers:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.wisc.edu\/catalog\/999620218602121\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oral history interviews at Wisconsin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Contact <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.wisc.edu\/contact.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW-Madison Archives<\/a> for his biographical file<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secfac.wisc.edu\/senate\/2009\/1005\/2134%28mem_res%29.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> UW obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Cottam Born: Sandy, UT 8\/26\/1918; died 5\/13\/2009 Education: Utah (B.A. 1939), Wisconsin (Ph.D. 1948) Dissertation title: The phytosociology of an oak woods in southwestern Wisconsin. (Ecology 30:271-287) Adviser: John T. Curtis (C) Comments: Also influenced by Walter P. Cottam, father and undergraduate adviser. Teaching history: Hawaii 1948-49; Wisconsin 1949-1986 Ph. D. Students: Paul G. Risser. Others influenced: Dennis H&#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-2865","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\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}