Edward Smith Deevey

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Edward Smith Deevey junior (born December 3, 1914 in Albany (New York) , † November 29, 1988 in Gainesville , Florida ) was an American freshwater ecologist, palynologist and paleo-limnologist.

Deevey received his bachelor's degree in botany from Yale University in 1934 (summa cum laude) and received his doctorate there in 1938 under George Evelyn Hutchinson in zoology (Typological succession in Connecticut lakes). He then worked as a limnologist and was a marine biologist at the Woods Hole Institute during World War II, doing work for the US Navy. In 1946 he was back at Yale as a lecturer and later professor. In 1971 he became a professor at the Florida State Museum of Natural History and at the University of Florida at Gainesville.

He is known for studying the history of lakes (paleo-limnology), where he pioneered the use of radiocarbon dating methods. He was also a pioneer in other areas such as quantitative palynology, biogeochemistry and natural isotope cycles, systematics and ecology of freshwater plankton, population dynamics and the use of life tables in ecology.

He tried to draw conclusions from the history of the lakes about the prehistoric climate and environmental conditions, for example with regard to the fall of the Maya culture. He did research in the karst regions of Florida and Guatemala and also in China (Yunnan Province in the 1980s). In 1964/65 he conducted research in the swamps of New Zealand.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Studies of Connecticut lake sediments. I. A postglacial climatic chronology for southern New England, Am. J. Sci., Vol. 237, 1939, pp. 691-724
  • Biogeography of the Pleistocene. Part I: Europe and North America, Bulletin Geological Society of America, Volume 60, 1949, 1315-1416
  • Late-glacial and post-glacial pollen diagrams from Maine, Am. J. Sci., Vol. 249, 1951, pp. 117-207.
  • with RF Flint: Radiocarbon dating of late-Pleistocene events, Am.J. Sci., Vol. 249, 1951, pp. 257-300.
  • with MW Binford, TL Crisman: Paleolimnology: A historical perspective on lacustrine ecosystems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., Vol. 14, 1983, pp. 255-286
  • with DS Rice, PM Rice, HH Vaughan, M. Brenner, MS Flannery: Mayan urbanism: Impact on a tropical karst environment, Science, Volume 206, 1979, pp. 298-306

literature

  • WT Edmondson, Edward Smith Deevey Jr. (1914-1988), Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, 1997, pdf

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1952 he published an early article in Scientific American on radiocarbon dating
  2. ↑ Deevey, Life table for the black widow, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., 36, 1945, 115-134
  3. ↑ Already in his work in the 1930s, where he also processed material from Tibet by Hutchinson
personal data
SURNAME Deevey, Edward Smith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American freshwater ecologist, palynologist, and paleo-limnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany (New York)
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1988
Place of death Gainesville