Norman W. Moore

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Norman Winfrid Moore (* 24. February 1923 in London , England ; † 21st October 2015 ) was a British entomologist , who on the research of dragonflies (located Odonatologe ) and their habitats ( Habitat ) had specialized.

For more than half a century he campaigned for a sustainable expansion of nature conservation. Even before the publication of Rachel Carson's groundbreaking work Silent Spring , he warned of the negative effects of DDT and other chlorinated organics on humans, animals and plants.

Life

The doctor's son ( Medical Officer for Health in Sussex ), Sir Alan Hilary Moore, 2nd Baronet Hancox (1882-1959) and his wife Hilda Mary (née Burrows) († 1950), the eldest of four children of the couple ( his siblings: Hilary Mary * 1927, Richard Gillachrist * 1931 and Meriel Edith Milicent * 1936), was educated at Eton College , Berkshire and Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He graduated from Trinity College in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery (RA) for the last two years of the war. He took part in the war in the Netherlands and Germany, was wounded and taken prisoner of war ( Stalag VI A in Hemer , Westphalia ). In April 1945 he was liberated by American troops.

After his discharge from the British Armed Forces in 1947, he returned to the University of Cambridge (Department of Zoology ) and completed a three-month study visit to the Gambia to study the biology of the tropics . During this time his interest in dragonflies solidified. Returned to England, he taught at the University of Bristol from 1949 and at the same time deepened his research on dragonflies. In 1954 he received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from the University of Bristol with a thesis on the behavior of dragonflies .

In 1953 he was appointed Regional Director for South West England at the Furzebrook Research Station near Wareham , Dorset , at the Nature Conservancy founded in 1949 by the British government (from 1973: Conservancy Council Nature) . There he was responsible for the selection and administration of numerous national nature reserves in this region until 1960. During this time he wrote scientific papers on the preservation of the (disappearing) heathland in Dorset and worked for a scientific (sub) committee of the UK Department of Agriculture on the effects of myxomatosis .

In the Monks Wood Experimental Station in Cambridgeshire examined Moore from 1960 to 1974, the impact of the use of DDT and other pesticides ( aldrin , dieldrin , heptachlor and others) to the predatory bird population - in particular the existence of Sperber (Sparrow Hawks), which in the 1950s died out in Cambridgeshire due to excessive pesticide use in agriculture. At the same time, he continued his research on dragonflies by creating twenty ponds in Woodwalton Fen - a nearby nature reserve.

Private

In 1950 Norman Moore married the zoologist (Dr.) Janet Singer († 2014). The marriage produced three children - Peter Alan Cutlack (* 1951), Caroline Mary Phyllis (* 1953) and Helena Meriel (* 1957).

Publications

  • Population density in adult dragonflies (Odonata - Anisoptera). In: Journal of Animal Ecology. Volume 22, 1953, pp. 344-359.
  • with PS Corbet and Cynthia Longfield: Dragonflies. Collins, London 1960.
  • The heaths of Dorset and their conservation. In: Journal of Ecology. Volume 50, 1962, pp. 369-391.
  • with E. Pollard and MD Hooper: Hedges. Collins, London 1974.
  • The Bird of Time - the science and politics of nature conservation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-25259-8 .
  • From arable farm to new town: changes in flora and fauna during the development of Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire from 1966 to 1988. In: Nature in Cambridgeshire. Volume 32, 1990, pp. 27-58 ( PDF; 8.5 MB ).
  • Guidelines for monitoring dragonfly populations. In: Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. Volume 6, 1990, pp. 21-23.
  • The development of dragonfly communities and the consequences of territorial behavior: a 27 year study on small ponds at Woodwalton Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK. In: Odonatalogica. Volume 20, 1991, pp. 203-231.
  • Dragonflies: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses Ressources, Gland 1997, ISBN 2-8317-0420-0 .
  • Oaks, Dragonflies and People. Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 0-946589-71-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Moore, conservationist-obituary. In: The Telegraph. October 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Norman Moore obituary. In: The Guardian. October 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Norman Winfrid Moore on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Nicholas Polunin (ed.): World Who is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation. Earthscan Publications, London 1997, p. 220 f.
  5. ↑ Sir Alan Hilary Moore, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hilda Mary Burrows on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ Norman Moore, conservationist-obituary. In: The Telegraph. October 22, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sir Alan Hilary Moore, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ Norman Moore, conservationist-obituary. In: The Telegraph. October 22, 2015.
  10. ^ Monks Wood Experimental Station: History of the wood
  11. ↑ Norman Moore, conservationist-obituary. In: The Telegraph. October 22, 2015.
  12. ↑ Dr. Janet Singer on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Norman W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Norman Winfrid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2015