{"id":3388,"date":"2015-06-27T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2015-06-27T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T01:00:34","slug":"pitelka-f-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/pitelka-f-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank A. Pitelka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frank A. Pitelka <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born: <\/span>Chicago, IL 3\/27\/1916; died 10\/10\/2003<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Illinois (B.S. 1939); California (Ph.D. 1946)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span>\u00a0 <em>Speciation and ecologic distribution in American jays of the genus <\/em>Aphelocoma<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"Alden Miller\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/miller-a\/\">Alden Miller<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Also influenced by <a title=\"Victor E. Shelford\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/shelford-v-e\">Victor Shelford<\/a> and <a title=\"S. Charles Kendeigh\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/kendeigh-s-c\/\">Charles Kendeigh<\/a> as an undergraduate.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Primary specialty:<\/span> Zoology<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> California 1946-1985 (became emeritus)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> 37 including <a title=\"Richard B. Root\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/root-r-b\">Richard B. Root<\/a>, Gordon Orians, George Batzli, Jerram Brown, Richard Holmes, Walter Koenig, Pete Myers, and David Winkler<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Mercer Award 1953; Eminent Ecologist 1992<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> 11 post docs including Tom Cade, Paul Sherman, Janis Dickenson, and Charles Krebs<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/mercer1953.pdf\">Mercer Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent1992.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Pitelka_FA.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Pitelka\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/people.wku.edu\/charles.smith\/chronob\/PITE1916.htm\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smith bios<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2003\/10\/23_pitelka.shtml\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCB obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank A. Pitelka Born: Chicago, IL 3\/27\/1916; died 10\/10\/2003 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1939); California (Ph.D. 1946) Dissertation title:\u00a0 Speciation and ecologic distribution in American jays of the genus Aphelocoma Adviser: Alden Miller Comments: Also influenced by Victor Shelford and Charles Kendeigh as an undergraduate. Primary specialty: Zoology Teaching history: California 1946-1985 (became emeritus) Ph.D. students: 37 including Richard B. Root,&#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-3388","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\/3388","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=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}