Susan Crockford

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Susan Janet Crockford (born 1954 in Toronto ) is a Canadian zoologist and author.

life and work

Crockford studied zoology at the University of British Columbia (Bachelor of Science 1976) and the University of Victoria (PhD 2004). She was an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria . Crockford was also active in museums and scientific collections, such as the Royal British Columbia Museum . With Rebecca Wigen and Gay Frederick, she founded and runs PacificID, a company based at the University of Victoria. PazificID offers a wide range of studies on the fauna of the American west coast. The company has, among other things, an important collection of fish remains that are of biological and archaeological interest. Crockford explored, among other things, archaeological occurrences of tuna remains on the northeast coast of America. In the 20th century, there are no known occurrences of heat-loving tuna , but in the past 5,000 years, according to Crockford, tuna have been found and hunted on the coast of British Columbia and today's Washington state .

She has dealt intensively with the domestication of domestic dogs . In the two-part documentary Dogs That Changed the World, a documentary film about domestication of domestic dogs that was released by PBS in 2007, she was named as a scientific advisor and was interviewed several times. Her book Rythms of Life from 2006 describes and asserts a central role of thyroid hormones and their changing amounts in evolution. She relates the quite controversial thesis in particular to the domestication of the wolf and the interaction between domestic dogs and humans. It contradicted the thesis of a comparatively rare invention of domestication by certain societies. Crockford emphasizes that animals play an active role in capitalizing on the ecological niche offered by humans and their waste. Domestication (s) occurred in a comparatively short time and quite early. In a field manual (A Practical Guide to In Situ Dog Remains for the Field Archaeologist) she gives hints and advice for the archaeological handling of dog remains.

On her blog and in self- published books, Crockford advocates the thesis that polar bears are not threatened - contrary to the state of the art, according to which polar bears are endangered by raw material extraction and climate change . With reference to earlier severe climatic changes, she believes that polar bear populations have a broad adaptability. The corresponding mechanisms are still not fully known. The temporary collapses in the polar bear populations in 1974 and 2004–2006 were associated with periods of comparatively thick sea ice in the vicinity of the Beaufort Sea . She did not have any peer-reviewed specialist publications on polar bears until 2017. On the other hand, on blogs belonging to the so-called “climate skeptics” , their theses received a lot of approval. She is listed there as an “expert” on the subject, according to an investigation into strategies of blogs that deny human-made climate change or downplay its consequences. Her theses were also considered noteworthy in press comments.

Crockford has at reports for the organized Climate Denial is part of Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Heartland Institute involved. With Eaten , she published a thriller in 2015 that will take place in the Arctic in 2025. In the style of the catastrophe films of the 1970s such as Jaws , polar bears are the central danger and a large number of animals raid settlements on Fogo Island in Newfoundland . In 2017 she gave a lecture on polar bears via Skype at a “climate conference” in Düsseldorf organized by the two climate denial organizations EIKE and CFACT .

Publications (selection)

  • Evolutionary roots of iodine and thyroid hormones in cell – cell signaling. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49, 2009, doi: 10.1093 / icb / icp053 (free full text).
  • with SG Frederick: Sea ice expansion in the Bering Sea during the Neoglacial: evidence from archaeozoology. The Holocene 17, 2007, doi: 10.1177 / 0959683607080507 .
  • Animal domestication and heterochronic speciation: the role of thyroid hormone. In: N. Minugh-Purvis, K. McNamara (Eds.): Human Evolution Through Developmental Change. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2002, pp. 122-153.
  • Commentary: Thyroid hormones in Neandertal evolution: A natural or a pathological role? In: Geographical Review. 92 (1), 2002, pp. 73-88.
  • Dog evolution: a role for thyroid hormone physiology in domestication changes. In: SJ Crockford (Ed.): Dogs Through Time: An Archaeological Perspective. Archaeopress S889, Oxford, UK 2000, pp. 11-20.
  • A commentary on dog evolution: regional variation, breed development and hybridization with wolves. In: SJ Crockford (Ed.): Dogs Through Time: An Archaeological Perspective. Archaeopress S889, Oxford, UK 2000, pp. 295-312.
  • with CJ Pye: Forensic reconstruction of prehistoric dogs from the Northwest coast , in: Canadian Journal of Archeology 21.2 (1997) 149-153.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://bcbooklook.com/2016/06/07/some-bare-facts-about-self-publishing/
  2. ↑ Madonna L. Moss, Aubrey Cannon: The Archeology of North Pacific Fisheries . University of Alaska Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60223-147-4 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  3. ^ SJ Crockford: Archeological evidence of large northern bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, in coastal waters of British Columbia and northern Washington . In: Oceanographic Literature Review . tape 11 , no. 44 , January 1, 1997, ISSN  0967-0653 ( infona.pl [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  4. ↑ International Council for Archaeozoology Symposium on the History of the Domestic Dog: Dogs Through Time: An Archaeological Perspective; Proceedings of the 1st ICAZ Symposium on the History of the Domestic Dog; Eighth Congress of the International Council for Archeozoology (ICAZ98), August 23-29, 1998, Victoria, BC, Canada . Ed .: Susan J. Crockford. Archaeopress, 2000, ISBN 1-84171-089-X ( google.de [accessed on December 16, 2016]).
  5. ^ Dogs That Changed The World | About | Nature | PBS . In: Nature . September 12, 2011 ( pbs.org [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Samantha J Richardson: Rhythms of Life: Thyroid Hormone & The Origin of Species. By Susan J Crockford. In: The Quarterly Review of Biology . tape 82 , no. 2 , June 1, 2007, ISSN  0033-5770 , p. 149–149 , doi : 10.1086 / 519588 ( uchicago.edu [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, Anand Pandian: Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference . Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-8465-5 , pp. 280 ( google.de [accessed on December 16, 2016]).
  8. ↑ Wolf-to-dog transition had little to do with humans, ancient skull suggests . In: National Post . ( nationalpost.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Nikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Thomas FG Higham , Gregory WL Hodgins, Johannes van der Plicht: A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum. In: PLoS ONE. 6 (7), 2011, p. E22821. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0022821 (open access)
  10. ^ Susan J. Crockford: A Practical Guide to In Situ Dog Remains for the Field Archaeologist. Pacific Identifications, Victoria BC 2009, ISBN 978-0-9813628-0-9 .
  11. ↑ James Taylor: Good News For Polar Bears Is Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  12. ^ Susan Crockford: Faux polar bear figures . In: Financial Post . 2015 ( financialpost.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  13. ↑ a b Jeffrey A. Harvey et al. a .: Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy . In: BioScience . November 2017, doi : 10.1093 / biosci / bix133 .
  14. ↑ Matt Ridley : We Should Be Listening To Susan Crockford . In: Financial Post . 2013 ( financialpost.com [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  15. ↑ Denise Robbins: Daily Caller Wants You To Know Polar Bears Threatened By Climate Change Are Doing Just Fine. In: mediamatters.org. July 10, 2015, accessed November 30, 2017 .
  16. ↑ A Northern Peninsula thriller . In: Northern Pen . ( northernpen.ca [accessed December 16, 2016]).
  17. ↑ CFACT co-sponsors climate and energy conference with EIKE . CFACT website . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Crockford, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crockford, Susan Janet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian zoologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto