Jeremy BC Jackson

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Jeremy Jackson

Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson (born November 13, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky ) is an American paleontologist , ecologist and marine biologist.

Life

Jackson grew up in Miami and Washington DC and graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967, and received a doctorate in geology from Yale University in 1971 . He became an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1971 , Associate Professor of Marine Ecology in 1977 and Professor of Ecology in 1981. He was also at the Woods Hole Marine Research Institute from 1979 . He later went to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla. From 1994 he was also a Senior Scientist at the Tropical Research Institute in Panama of the Smithsonian Institution , for which he has been researching since 1976.

In 1976 and 1978 he was visiting professor at the Discovery Bay Marine Research Institute in the Caribbean.

In 2019 Jackson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

He initially dealt with bryozoa and his paleontological and genetic work on it supported the punctualism of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge . He was a senior scientist in the Smithsonian Institution's project on the evolution of the ecosystem in Panama and the surrounding area and conducted research on the ecology and evolution of coral reefs in the Pleistocene and the present. He reconstructed the development of marine ecosystems over the last centuries and their changes due to human intervention (overfishing, etc.). This led to some controversial articles in Science in the 2000s .

He is married to marine biologist (also a coral reef specialist) Nancy Knowlton .

Fonts (selection)

  • Editor with Scott Lidgard, Frank McKinney: Evolutionary Patterns. Growth, Form and Tempo in the Fossil Record, In honor of Alan Cheetham, University of Chicago Press 2001
  • with LW Buss: Allelopathy and spatial competition among coral reef invertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Volume 72, 1975, pp. 5160-5163
  • with AH Cheetham: Evolutionary significance of morphospecies: a test with cheilostome bryozoa. In: Science. Volume 248, Number 4955, May 1990, pp. 579-583, doi : 10.1126 / science.248.4955.579 , PMID 17791464 .
  • with AH Cheetham: On the importance of nothing doing: an exhaustive study of tiny bryozoans supports the idea of ​​punctuated equilibrium, Natural History, Volume 103, 1994, pp. 56-59
  • with Cheetham, LC Hayek: Quantitative genetics of bryozoan phenotypic evolution, 2 parts, Evolution, Volume 47, 1993, pp. 1526-1538, Volume 48, 1994, pp. 360-375
  • Reefs since Columbus. Coral Reefs, Volume 16, 1997, S23-S32
  • Competition on marine hard substrata: the adaptive significance of solitary and colonial strategies. American Naturalist, Vol. 111, 1977, pp. 743-767
  • with others: Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science, Vol. 293, 2001, pp. 629-638
  • with Kenneth G. Johnson: Measuring past biodiversity. Science, Vol. 293, 2001, pp. 2401-2403.
  • with JC Ogden, E. Sala u. a .: Reassessing US coral reefs. Science, Volume 308, 2005, pp. 1741-1742
  • with N. Eldredge, D. Jablonski u. a .: The dynamics of evolutionary stasis. Paleobiology, Volume 31 (Supplement S), 2005, pp. 133-145
  • with JM Pandolfi, E. Sala u. a .: Are US coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime? Science, Vol. 307, 2005, pp. 1725-1726.
  • with B. Worm u. a.:Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science, Vol. 314, 2006, pp. 787-790
  • with L. McClenachan, MJH Newman: Conservation implications of historic sea turtle nesting loss. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment, Volume 4, 2006, pp. 290-296
  • with DH Erwin: What can we learn about ecology and evolution from the fossil record? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 21, 2006, pp. 322-328
  • with MJH Newman, GA Paredes, E. Sala: Structure of Caribbean coral reef communities across a large gradient of fish biomass. Ecology Letters, Volume 9, 2006, pp. 1216-1227
  • with HK Lotze u. a .: Depletion, degradation, and recovery potential of estuaries and coastal seas. Science, Vol. 312, 2006, pp. 1806-1809
  • Evolution and extinction in the brave new ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 105 (Suppl. 1), 2008, pp. 11458-11465
  • with N. Knowlton: Shifting baselines, local impacts, and climate change on coral reefs. PloS Biology, Vol. 6, 2008, pp. 215-220

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Jeremy BC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Jeremy Bradford Cook
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and marine biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville (Kentucky)