Institute of Ecology records, Orie Loucks interview, 1985 March 12

Summary

Creator:

Loucks, Orie L.

Date:

1985 March 12

Extent:

1 interview(s) (54.0 minutes)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Institute of Ecology records, Orie Loucks interview, UA97-066_0010, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Orie Loucks 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.

Biographical / historical:

Orie Lipton 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).

Related

Related material:

Institute of Ecology records, UA97-066 and the Ecological Society of America records, UA97-061

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Oral histories (document genres)

Names:

U.S. International Biological Program
Ecological Society of America
Institute of Ecology
Holcomb Research Institute
Loucks, Orie L.

Terms of access:

Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use).

Preferred citation:

Institute of Ecology records, Orie Loucks interview, UA97-066_0010, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.