W. Christopher Wozencraft

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Wallace Christopher Wozencraft (born May 25, 1953 , according to other information 1954 in Tulsa , Oklahoma , † January 6, 2007 in Manistique , Michigan ), often only known as W. Christopher Wozencraft or W. Chris Wozencraft , was an American Mammaloge . His main research interests were small carnivores and pandas.

Life

Wallace Christopher Wozencraft was the son of Wallace and Frances Wozencraft, née Preston. After graduating from Edison High School, Wozencraft earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oklahoma State University and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1978. In the 1970s, he worked in the Department of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. In 1984 he was with the thesis A phylogenetic reappraisal of the Viverridae and its relationship to other carnivores for Ph.D. PhD from the University of Kansas . He then became a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution . In 1986 the Archives Commission of the Smithsonian Institution was established and Wozencraft was appointed its archivist. In the 1990s he moved to the Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho as a professor of biology . In 1995 he married Jiong "Julie" Zhang. From 1998 to December 2006, Wozencraft was an associate professor of biology and chair of the science department at Bethel College , a private Christian college in Mishawaka , Indiana . In December 2006 he became chairman of the IUCN's Small Carnivore Specialist Group .

Wozencraft went on research trips to China, Africa and Madagascar. In addition to numerous scientific articles, he wrote the chapter on predators in the standard work Mammal Species of the World in 2005 . In 2008, an article on the carnivores of China was published posthumously in A Guide to the Mammals of China by Andrew T. Smith .

death

Wozencraft last lived in Osceola , Indiana . On January 5, 2007, he was reported missing by his sister-in-law. On January 6, 2007, his body was discovered in his motor vehicle in the Michigan Upper Peninsula, about 20 miles from Manistique, in a remote area of Schoolcraft County . The police assumed suicide .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary: W. Chris Wozencraft In: South Bend Tribune of March 24, 2007
  2. ↑ a b WOZENCRAFT - W. Chris In: Tulsa World, March 25, 2007
  3. ↑ a b Obituary: Dr. W. Chris Wozencraft (1954-2007) In: Small Carnivore Conservation, Volume 37, October 2007, p. 10.
  4. ^ Smithsonian Institution Archives
  5. ^ WC Wozencraft: Investigations concerning a high-density white-tailed deer population in south central Wisconsin. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1978.
  6. ↑ Elmer C. Birney; Jerry R. Choate: Seventy-five years of mammalogy, 1919-1994 , Special Publication No. II The American Society of Mammalogists, 1994. p. 162
  7. ↑ a b Missing former Bethel College professor found dead in upper Michigan In: South Bend Tribune, March 21, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wozencraft, W. Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wozencraft, Wallace Christopher (full name); Wozencraft, W. Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1953 or 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2007
Place of death near Manistique , Michigan