Palynologists at the University of ArizonaPalynologists at the University of Arizona
OWEN KENT DAVIS
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Age: 56 (born March 13, 1949) Married: Two Sons, Born 2/9/83 and 11/18/85 Address: Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 (520) 621-7953 Curriculum Vitae |
STEPHEN BUCHMANN is a pollination ecologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research
Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and
Behavioral Biology. His research concerns insect/plant interactions especially
pollination ecology and foraging/mating biology of all bees (melittology)
especially carpenter bees, mason bees and bumblebees. He has conducted studies
in the fields of chemical ecology, biophysics of wind-pollinated plants and
the evolution of pollen specialization by solitary bees.
SUSANNE K. FISH is an Archeologist and Palynologist
at the Arizona State Museum. She has completed over
50 palynological studies of archaeological deposits in the
American Southwest and in other arid lands. She is a
1993 graduate of the Department of Arid Lands. Her
dissertation was entitled, "Agriculture and society
in arid lands: a Hohokam case study."
Susanne can be reached at the Arizona State Museum or
sfish@u.arizona.edu
MARY KAY O'ROURKE is a Research Assistant Professor
of Medicine in the Respiratory Sciences Center at the
University of Arizona. Her research addresses human
exposure to airborne pollen and mold spores. She has
served as Secretary General for the International Association
for Aerobiology and Secretary-Treasurer for the Pan
American Aerobiology Association. She is a 1986 graduate
of the Department of Geosciences. Mary Kay can be reached at
maryk@hrp.arizona.edu.
and you can learn more about her at
http://www.ahsc.arizona.edu/pha/conference.html
JONATHAN OVERPECK is the director of the Institute for the Study of the Planet
Earth at the University of Arizona. His primary research interest is Global
Change particularly the dynamics of the Earth's climate system
(i.e., atmosphere, oceans, biosphere and cryosphere), with particular
emphasis on using the Late Quaternary record of climate system dynamics to
understand how the Earth system might change in the future.
NICEA M. T. WILDER lives in Tucson with her husband John.
Lucy Cranwell Smith (1907 - 2000)
F.L.S., F.R.S.N.Z., began the study of microfossils under the
guidance of Lennart von Post, founder of pollen analysis, during
the winter of 1935-36: a joint paper presenting the first
Australasian pollen diagrams was published in Stockholm in
1936. Morphological studies of pollen from New Zealand and
related genera and species followed (Conifers 1938, Nothofagus
1939, 1963, 1964, keys to New Zealand genera 1942, monocots 1953,
Acmopyle 1961, and others. Her arrival in the U.S.
was hearlded in Paul Sears' Pollen Analysis Circular (
1944, no. 6
). Pioneer reports
on Antarctic sediments dealt with McMurdo erratics (1960 with
H.J. Harrington and I. Speden), and reports on upper Cretaceous
and Tertiary (Campanian to Eocene) finds (not in situ) from
Seymour Island and Snow Hill (1959, 1964, 1966, 1969). Similar
Eocene deposits were traced to Southern Chile and worked on
with Cookson (1967). Lucy has been appointed an Honorary
Member of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists,
was awarded the Hector Medal form the Royal Society of
New Zealand and won the Loder Cup for Auckland Institute and
Museum while Botanist there (1929-1944). She continues to
pursue her interest in Gondwana floras and Hawaiian peats,
in which she feels bogged down.
In 1983, Lucy Cranwell and Watson Smith established the
Cranwell Award
in Palynology for Graduate Students.
Gerhard O. W. Kremp (1913 - 1994)
Paul S. Martin
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