Marine Biology Resources - OLD: Biographies

a highly respected civilian meteorologist who worked for the Signal Service, and later the Weather Bureau. Essentially, he was considered the expert on forecasting.

American marine invertebrate zoologist

Hawai'ian marine botanist who specialized in marine algae.

biographical sketch by Sir John Murray

picture and biographical note from the University of California Museum of Paleontology

Australian marine scientist who specializes in Southern Ocean dynamics and sea ice.

biography of the naturalist and painter

eulogy by Professor Joseph Henry

the first United States Commissioner of Fisheries, appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871

from the Franklin Institute

The papers of S. Stillman Berry document his work in malacology, his brief career at Scripps, his horticultural business, his family relationships, and his college years.

American Oceanographer and Marine Biologist who helped found Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Expert on coelenterates and elasmobranchs.

biography of a founder of oceanography by Sue Ann Gardner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

picture and biographical sketch of the great ecologist: select Biography

many famous environmental quotes

"The Shark Lady" - The life and legacy of an ocean pioneer

Malcolm Clarke was a leading authority on cephalopods and their significance in the world oceans.

French naval officer, ocean explorer, and coinventor of the Aqua-Lung, known for his extensive underseas investigations.

Charles Darwin, English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.

biographical sketch by Charles G. Yale

Biological Oceanographer and Marine Ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography whose research includes Benthic Ecology, Marine Conservation and Policy, Evolution and Natural History, and General Ecology.

prominent German Darwinist and founder and first director of the first zoological research station in the world - the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy.

American oceanographer and explorer known for research on marine algae and her books/documentaries on the threats of overfishing and ocean pollution.

memorial articles and works by Ferrel, an American meteorologist and astronomer who worked on the theory of tides

biographical sketch by David Starr Jordan

Memorial of Gordon Gunter, former director of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and the first editor of Gulf Research Reports.

German marine biologist/biologist who discovered thousands of new species and coined many terms still used in science today.

Marine biologist and ecologist at University of California, Santa Barbara

marine biologist and underwater filmmaker

the first Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey

first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a major personality in the development and evolution of American science. This is a comprehensive site that includes a special section on Joseph Henry's contribution to the formation of a national weather service.

English biologist, early microscopist, physicist, inventor, and experimental scientist

the great U. S. Navy computer scientist

American Oceanographer

nineteenth century American naval officer and explorer who captured the imagination of the American public with his quest for the open polar sea (American philosophical Society)

founder of Inter-Research, German marine biologist

English zoologist and marine biologist

biographies, topics, chronologies, bibliography. Biographies of hundreds of mathematicians including Benjamin Peirce, Charles Peirce, William Ferrel, Gauss, and Bessel. The "Mac" is the genuine article as this site has been developed by the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Russian explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist, and biologist

British Oceanographer, marine biologist, and limnologist. He's considered the father of modern oceanography.

American ecologist who coined the term "keystone species"

arguably the most important of all American philosophers. He had and continues to have a profound influence on the Philosophy of Science. The Peirce Edition Project, Arisbe, the Peirce Organization, and NOAA sites all have different thrusts concerning his life and influence on American science.

naval aviator, meteorologist, and longest running Director of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Reichelderfer brought modern technology to weather forecasting.

American marine biologist best known for his influence on writer John Steinbeck.

American marine biologist who co-founded the Gulf Specien Marine Laboratory in Panacea, FL

Writer, naturalist, and environmental activist and co-founder of the Guld Specimen Marine Laboratory in Panacea, FL

Founding investigator of ichthyoplankton (bio in Norwegian - use Google Translate)

Norwegian theologian and biologist (bio in Norwegian - use Google Translate)

biographical memoir by Cleveland Abbe

American fisheries scientist

American fisheries scientist

autobiographical sketch titled "Connect the Dots: Mapping the Seafloor and Discovering the Mid-ocean Ridge" by the oceanographic cartographer in: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Twelve Perspectives on the First Fifty Years 1949-1999

Scottish natural historian and marine zoologist; Chief scientist on the Challenger expedition

US marine biologist and malacologist who became the world's expert on shipworms

one of our nation's greatest meteorologists

biographies from Eastern Illinois University

biographies from Agnes Scott College

highlights early women marine biologists