Paul Alfred Colinvaux, interviewed December 8, 1984, 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. Colinvaux was born in London, England, attended the University College School, and after graduating earned a commission in the Royal Artillery. He was stationed in Germany as part of the British occupation after WWII, and achieved the rank of Second Lieutenant. After leaving the army, Colinvaux matriculated at Cambridge University, and then emigrated to Canada where he was employed in a government soil survey. He went on to earn his Ph.D. at Duke University, and after post-doctural studies at Yale University, he and his wife became faculty in the Department of Botany & Zoology at Ohio State University in 1964. While at OSU, Paul took many positions with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. In 1990, he moved to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratories.
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