{"id":2869,"date":"2015-06-13T01:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2015-06-13T01:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:31:40","slug":"cottam-w-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/cottam-w-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter P. Cottam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Walter P. Cottam<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born<\/span> St. George, UT 3\/3\/1894; died 12\/23\/1988<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Brigham Young (A.B. 1916), Wisconsin (M.S. 1921), Chicago (Ph.D. 1926)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>An ecological study of the flora of Utah Lake, Utah<\/em> (not published)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"H. C. Cowles\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cowles-h-c\/\">H. C. Cowles<\/a> (confirmed by Grant Cottam)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> BYU 1920-31; Utah 1931-62<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph. D. Students:<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"Grant Cottam\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cottam-g\/\">Grant Cottam<\/a> (son), <a title=\"Calvin McMillan\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/mcmillan-c\/\">Calvin McMillan<\/a> (M.S.)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Eminent Ecologist 1960<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent1960.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Cottam_WP.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter P. Cottam Born St. George, UT 3\/3\/1894; died 12\/23\/1988 Education: Brigham Young (A.B. 1916), Wisconsin (M.S. 1921), Chicago (Ph.D. 1926) Dissertation title: An ecological study of the flora of Utah Lake, Utah (not published) Adviser: H. C. Cowles (confirmed by Grant Cottam) Teaching history: BYU 1920-31; Utah 1931-62 Ph. D. Students: Others influenced: Grant Cottam (son), Calvin McMillan (M.S.)&#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-2869","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\/2869","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=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}