Orie Lipton Loucks, interviewed March 12, 1985, discusses the Institute of Ecology, including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, its structural and funding challenges, and its demise.
Dr. Loucks was a Canadian ecologist and systems biologist born in Minden, Ontario on October 2, 1931. He studied forestry at the University of Toronto and graduated with a B.Sc. in 1953 and a M.Sc. in 1955. He later earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1960. Loucks continued teaching in academia at Wisconsin from 1962-1971, before moving to Butler University, where he taught from 1983-1989. He pressed on to instruct at Miami of Ohio from 1989-2002, before becoming emeritus. Loucks won the George Mercer Award for 1964, while serving for the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
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