Edward S. Deevey, Jr., 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. Deevey was born in Albany, New York on December 3, 1914. He attended Yale University earning his B.A. in 1934, and his Ph.D. in zoology in 1938. He was a Killam Professor of Biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as well as the President of the Ecological Society of America from 1969-1970. In 1982, Deevey received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the ESA, and was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.
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