{"id":868,"date":"2014-01-20T02:48:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history2\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-01-20T02:48:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:48:36","slug":"christensen-n-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2014\/01\/christensen-n-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman L. Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Norman L. Christensen<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Born:<\/span> Fresno, CA 12\/28\/1946<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Education:<\/span> Cal State Fresno (AB 1968, MS 1970); UC Santa Barbara (Ph.D. 1973)<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Effects of fire on factors controlling plant growth in Adenostoma chaparral<\/em> (Science 181:66-68; Ecol. Mon. 45 29-55.)<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/muller-c-h\">Cornelius H. Muller<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Comments:<\/span> Strongly influenced by Bert A. Tribbey (CA State Univ, Fresno).<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Teaching History:<\/span> Duke 1973-present<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Ph. D. Students:<\/span> Craig E. Martin, 1980; John C. Horn, 1980; Barbara A. Beaman, 1981; Anne E. Lubbers, 1982; Mark R. Roberts, 1983; Frank S. Gilliam, 1983; Ellen L. Simms, 1983; Rebecca B. Wilbur, 1984; James Raich, 1987; Michael Palmer, 1988; Richard E. Schneider, 1989; Suzanne McAlister, 1990; Douglas S. Powell, 1991; Patricia Peroni, 1992; Jane Molofsky, 1993; Stephen Rice, 1993; Eric Kjellmark, 1994; Ruth A. Kern, 1997; Deborah Lawrence, 1997 (co-advised with William Schlesinger); Sarah Goslee, 1998; Chi-ru Chang, 1997 (co-advised with Dean Urban); Phyllis C. Adams, 1999; Monique Rocca, 2004 (co-advised with Dean Urban); Benjamin Poulter, 2005; Alan Weakley, 2006; Miguel Schwarz, 2007; Charlotte Clark, 2007; Nicolette Cagle, 2008; Dalia Amor Ovando Conde, 2008; Sara Chun, 2008; Krithi Karanth, 2008; Jennifer M. Adeney, 2009; Claire O\u2019Dea, 2010.<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> Michael S. Schafale, MS 1983<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Vice President for Finance 2002-2005, President 2007-8, Fellow 2012<br>\n<span style=\"color:#990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/fds.duke.edu\/db\/Nicholas\/esp\/faculty\/normc\/mentoring.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman L. Christensen Born: Fresno, CA 12\/28\/1946 Education: Cal State Fresno (AB 1968, MS 1970); UC Santa Barbara (Ph.D. 1973) Dissertation title: Effects of fire on factors controlling plant growth in Adenostoma chaparral (Science 181:66-68; Ecol. Mon. 45 29-55.) Adviser: Cornelius H. Muller (C) Comments: Strongly influenced by Bert A. Tribbey (CA State Univ, Fresno). Teaching History: Duke 1973-present Ph&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-868","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\/868","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\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}