Part 57: Aspects of Limnology in America, 1930s to about 1990, Led by Hutchinson and Hasler

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 63: Biosphere Ecology

“…English ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903–1991) was son of a mineralogist (at Cambridge University), and he eventually introduced Vernadsky's biosphere concept (available in French translation) to an English‐language audience while a professor at Yale University (Slack :171–173, Egerton :229). The American Museum of Natural History funded Hutchinson's 1940s “exhaustive study” of the biogeochemistry of aluminum (Slack :175).…”

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 60: American Great Lakes before 2000

“…The western three are much larger than the eastern two. (For two maps of the Great Lakes, see Egerton , b:262. )…”

“…By the 1950s, when the sea lamprey crisis developed, ecologists were studying ecosystems, with a goal of gaining theoretical understanding based upon particular studies (Egerton , b). By 1972, Stan Smith was so pessimistic about the overall situation that he entitled one paper Destruction of the Ecosystem in the Great Lakes and Possibilities for Its Reconstruction ().…”

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 58B: Marine Ecology, mid‐1920s to about 1990: Carson, Riley, Cousteau, and Clark

“…from Washington University (1934), which provided a scholarship, and with a teaching assistantship, Ph.D. from Yale University (). In 1935, he switched from embryology to limnology after hearing Hutchinson lecture, and he became Hutchinson's first graduate student (Hutchinson , Slack :121–127, Egerton :232). Hutchinson was a superb mentor for both limnology and quantitative methodology.…”

“…Robert Coker (1876–1967), discussed in part 57 on limnology (Egerton :254–257), was even more active in teaching and researching North Carolina marine ecology (Burgess :27). Ritchie Ward () discussed briefly contributions of marine microbiologist Claude Zobell (1904–1989), Nobel Prize winning biochemist Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), Calvin's collaborator Andrew Benson (1917–2016), and others.…”