{"id":3513,"date":"2015-07-03T06:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2015-07-03T06:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T06:26:22","slug":"reiners-w-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/reiners-w-a\/","title":{"rendered":"William A. Reiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William A. Reiners<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span>\u00a0Chicago, IL 6\/10\/1937<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Knox College (B.A. 1959), Rutgers (M.S. 1962; Ph.D. 1964)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em> Ecology of a shrub Synusia in an irradiated ecosystem<\/em><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Murray F. Buell\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/buell-m-f\">Murray F. Buell<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Undergraduate advisor was Paul Shepard, a student of <a title=\"Paul Sears\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/sears-p-b\/\">Paul Sears<\/a>. Other influences: <a title=\"George M. Woodwell\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/woodwell-g-m\/\">George M. Woodwell<\/a> (Ph.D. and later); Donald B Lawrence, Eville Gorham, Gene E. Likens (early career); Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Steven D. Prager (later career)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching History:<\/span> Minnesota 1964-67; Dartmouth 1976-83; Wyoming 1983-2015 (emeritus)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> <a title=\"Peter M. Vitousek\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/vitousek-p-m\">Peter M. Vitousek<\/a>, Peter S. White, Christopher S. Cronan, Gary M. Lovett, Jeffrey R. Foster, Douglas A. Schaefer, Ingrid C. Burke, Rebecca A. Reed, Stephen M. Ogle, Christopher A. Hiemstra, Kenneth L. Driese, Walter F. Fertig<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"William H. Schlesinger\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/schlesinger-w-h\">William H. Schlesinger<\/a>, Thomas R. Wentworth, Timothy J. Fahey, Robin Lambert Graham, Richard K. Olson and David Y. Hollinger (undergraduates); <a title=\"Gerald E. Lang\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/lang-g-e\">Gerald E. Lang<\/a>, Michael Keller, Shuguang Liu (post-docs)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> \u00a0Treasurer 1981-84, Eminent Ecologist 2013<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent2013.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_A._Reiners\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William A. Reiners Born:\u00a0Chicago, IL 6\/10\/1937 Education: Knox College (B.A. 1959), Rutgers (M.S. 1962; Ph.D. 1964) Dissertation title: Ecology of a shrub Synusia in an irradiated ecosystem Advisor: Murray F. Buell Comments: Undergraduate advisor was Paul Shepard, a student of Paul Sears. Other influences: George M. Woodwell (Ph.D. and later); Donald B Lawrence, Eville Gorham, Gene E. Likens (early career);&#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-3513","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\/3513","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=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}