{"id":3103,"date":"2015-06-22T20:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2015-06-22T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:50:46","slug":"knight-d-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/knight-d-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis H. Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dennis H. Knight<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Clear Lake, SD 12\/24\/1937<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD (B.A. 1959, biology), Wisconsin\u2014Madison (M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1964)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>An analysis of Wisconsin forest vegetation on the basis of plant function and gross morphology<\/em> (Ecology 50:219-234)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span>\u00a0 <a title=\"Orie L. Loucks\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/loucks-o-l\/\">Orie L. Loucks<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> <a title=\"John T. Curtis\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/curtis-j-t\/\">John T. Curtis<\/a> (\u20201961) was advisor for M.S and inspired Ph.D work.\u00a0 Also influential: <a title=\"Grant Cottam\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cottam-g\/\">Grant Cottam<\/a>, <a title=\"Eugene Odum\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/odum-e-p\/\">Eugene Odum<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> University of Loja (Ecuador) 1964-66; University of Wyoming 1966-2001<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D students: <\/span>W. H. Romme, E. B. Allen, T. J. Fahey, J. A. Pearson, J. B. Yavitt, Yegang Wu, G. P. Jones, W. F. J. Parsons, K. M. Doyle, C. B. Meyer, D. B. Tinker, C. M. Litton<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"G. E. Lang\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/lang-g-e\/\">G. E. Lang <\/a>(M.S.), J. F. Reynolds (M.S.).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Vice President 1983-84; President 1989-90; Fellow 2012<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biogr\/KnightDHpb.pdf\">Presidential bio<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived Papers:<\/span> Planned: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/archives\/learned.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Georgia Archives<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/ahc.uwyo.edu\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis H. Knight Born: Clear Lake, SD 12\/24\/1937 Education: Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD (B.A. 1959, biology), Wisconsin\u2014Madison (M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1964) Dissertation title: An analysis of Wisconsin forest vegetation on the basis of plant function and gross morphology (Ecology 50:219-234) Advisor:\u00a0 Orie L. Loucks Comments: John T. Curtis (\u20201961) was advisor for M.S and inspired Ph.D work.\u00a0 Also influential:&#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-3103","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\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}