{"id":3310,"date":"2015-06-26T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2015-06-26T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:00:29","slug":"niering-w-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/niering-w-a\/","title":{"rendered":"William A. Niering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William A. Niering <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Scotrun, PA 8\/28\/24; died 8\/30\/1999<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Penn State (B,S. 1948; M.S. 1950); Rutgers (Ph.D. 1952)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>The past and present vegetation of High Point State Park, N.J.<\/em> (Ecol. Mon. 23:127-148)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"Murray F. Buell\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/buell-m-f\/\">Murray F. Buell<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Other influences:<\/span>  Alvin Grove (undergraduate)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Connecticut Coll., 1952-1999.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Mercer Award 1967; Secretary 1970<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a title=\"Mercer Award\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/mercer1967.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercer Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Niering_WA.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/09\/01\/nyregion\/prof-william-a-niering-75-expert-on-ecology-of-wetlands.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William A. Niering Born: Scotrun, PA 8\/28\/24; died 8\/30\/1999 Education: Penn State (B,S. 1948; M.S. 1950); Rutgers (Ph.D. 1952) Dissertation title: The past and present vegetation of High Point State Park, N.J. (Ecol. Mon. 23:127-148) Adviser: Murray F. Buell (C) Other influences: Alvin Grove (undergraduate) Teaching history: Connecticut Coll., 1952-1999. ESA offices and honors: Mercer Award 1967; Secretary 1970 ESA&#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-3310","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\/3310","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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}