{"id":5236,"date":"2016-07-13T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2016-07-13T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:35:34","slug":"john-mike-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2016\/07\/john-mike-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike C. John (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From a \u201cFocus on Ecologists\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2009-2011.<\/em><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5218 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mike_john_profile-avatar2.jpg\" alt=\"mike_john_profile-avatar2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full Name<\/td>\n<td>Mike C. John<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Degree<\/td>\n<td>PhD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Job Position<\/td>\n<td>Associate Professor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Organization<\/td>\n<td>Bethune-Cookman College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Department<\/td>\n<td>Biology Department of Science and Mathematics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Professional Affiliation<\/td>\n<td>Academic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Briefly describe your job path.<\/td>\n<td>During my undergraduate years, I was influenced into taking ecology courses by a professor who envisioned ecological pursuits as becoming increasingly important as human intervene and damage the environment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Who or what inspired you to become a scientist (or other profession)?<\/td>\n<td>Learning about the abrupt disappearance of plant and animal species with the introduction of pesticides and other toxins into the environment. My botany professor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>What is the most valuable advice a mentor gave you or that you would offer to someone who\u2019d like to do the same job as you?<\/td>\n<td>When approached by students facing difficulties, I repeat my mother`s famous maxim \u201cno cross, no crown\u201d. Difficulties disappear with this in mind. I was trained in plant and animal biology, and teach general biology, comparative vertebrate anatomy and ecology.<br>\nFollow your passion, foster the message of ecology, and let us a global family preserve what is left of our planet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a \u201cFocus on Ecologists\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2009-2011. Full Name Mike C. John Degree PhD Job Position Associate Professor Organization Bethune-Cookman College Department Biology Department of Science and Mathematics Professional Affiliation Academic Briefly describe your job path. During my undergraduate years, I was influenced into taking ecology courses by a professor who envisioned ecological pursuits&#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-5236","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\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}