{"id":5183,"date":"2016-07-10T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2016-07-10T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:18:00","slug":"motzkin-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2016\/07\/motzkin-glenn\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Motzkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From an \u201cEcologist Directory\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.<\/em><br>\n<strong>Degree<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M.S. (University of Massachusetts)<br>\n<em><strong>W.S. Cooper Award for 2003 <\/strong><\/em><br>\n<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5169 img-fluid\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gmotzkin.gif\" alt=\"gmotzkin\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\">When did you become interested in ecology?<br>\n<\/strong>My interest in ecology grew out of (and remains rooted in) a strong interest in natural history.<br>\n<strong>How did you learn about ecological careers? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology?<br>\n<\/strong>I worked for several years as a naturalist and environmental educator before shifting to a career in ecology. Bill Lafley and Glenn Davis offered important guidance as I started to explore natural history, and Dr. Bill Patterson was an invaluable mentor in my development as an ecologist.<br>\n<strong>What key advice would you offer a student today?<br>\n<\/strong>I encourage all ecology students to select at least one field system to learn about in great depth, as I feel such perspective is critical for both applied and theoretical studies.<br>\n<span style=\"border-radius: 2px;text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an \u201cEcologist Directory\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M.S. (University of Massachusetts) W.S. Cooper Award for 2003 When did you become interested in ecology? My interest in ecology grew out of (and remains rooted in) a strong interest in natural history. How did you learn about ecological careers? Who was most influential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,155,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-ecologist-directory","category-personal-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","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=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}