{"id":3705,"date":"2015-07-15T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:26:07","slug":"shanks-r-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/shanks-r-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal E. Shanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Royal E. Shanks<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Ada, OH 11\/11\/1912; died 8\/4\/1962<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Ohio Northern (B.A. 1933); Ohio State (M.S. 1937, Ph.D. 1938)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>The original vegetation of a part of the lake plain of northwestern Ohio: Wood and Henry counties<\/em><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"H. C. Sampson\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/sampson-h-c\/\">H. C. Sampson<\/a> (signed dissertation)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> <a title=\"E. N. Transeau\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/transeau-e-n\/\">E. N. Transeau<\/a> was Shanks\u2019 adviser for his Master\u2019s thesis (Vegetation of Trumbull, Co., Ohio) and must certainly have been closely involved with his doctoral research, but was not the official adviser.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Ohio State 1936-39; Austin Peay St. Coll. (Texas) 1941-46; Tennessee 1939-41, 1946-62.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Treasurer 1941-42; Member-at-Large 1950-51<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Shanks_RE.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External link:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca\/arctic\/arctic16-1-48.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Arctic <\/em>obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal E. Shanks Born: Ada, OH 11\/11\/1912; died 8\/4\/1962 Education: Ohio Northern (B.A. 1933); Ohio State (M.S. 1937, Ph.D. 1938) Dissertation title: The original vegetation of a part of the lake plain of northwestern Ohio: Wood and Henry counties Advisor: H. C. Sampson (signed dissertation) Comments: E. N. Transeau was Shanks\u2019 adviser for his Master\u2019s thesis (Vegetation of Trumbull, Co.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3705","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\/3705","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=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}