History of Ecological Sciences, Part 58A: Marine Ecology, mid‐1920s to about 1990, Featuring Beebe, Bigelow, Ricketts

Egerton, Frank N.

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“…William Beebe (1877–1962) was born in Brooklyn and grew up in East Orange NJ (Welker , Sterling , , Gould , Sheldon , Egerton :373–385). He attended Columbia University, 1896–99, and left without a degree to take a position at the new New York Zoological Society's Bronx Zoo.…”

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History of Ecological Sciences, Part 61C: Marine Biogeography, 1690s–1940s

Egerton

2019

Bulletin Ecologic Soc America

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History of Ecological Sciences, Part 61C: Marine Biogeography, 1690s–1940s

Egerton

2019

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The neglected contributions of William Beebe to the natural history of the deep-sea

Dolan

2020

ICES Journal of Marine Science

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William Beebe (1877–1962) was a very popular 20th century naturalist and an early proponent of studying all organisms in a habitat. Beebe’s deep-sea work began with his Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition in 1925 with sampling closely modelled on the Michael Sars deep-sea expedition. Dissatisfied with ship-based sampling of stations for a few days at best, he established a field laboratory in Bermuda to do intensive deep-water sampling. From 1929 to 1934, plankton net tows were carried out at the same site, over several months each year, totalling over 1500 net tows in deep waters. Here, the sampling efforts and results are reviewed from both the Arcturus Expedition and the Bermuda station. Study of the deep-sea samples yielded 43 scientific articles, published from 1926 to 1952, on a large variety of taxa. Beebe is still a popular figure connected in the public view with deep-sea exploration from his famous Bathysphere dives at the Bermuda site. However, his name rarely, if ever, appears in academic reviews of deep-sea biology or deep-sea expeditions. This study is an attempt to draw attention to Beebe’s considerable scientific deep-sea work and provide some speculation as to why his contributions might be neglected.

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Edward Flanders Ricketts and the marine ecology of the inner coast habitats of British Columbia, Canada

Levings

2020

Archives of Natural History

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Marine ecologist Edward Flanders Ricketts made three trips in the early 1930s to British Columbia, Canada, before publication in 1939 of his Between Pacific Tides, the classic marine ecology text for the west coast of North America. Between Pacific Tides is a highly influential book, widely read by marine ecology students and researchers working in the intertidal zone. These trips were to the inner coast and sheltered waters of the region, where he sampled marine and estuarine habitats. Explored in this paper are details of Ricketts's British Columbia inner coast work, including comments on collection records, collection site locations and influence of survey results, topics that are new to the literature.

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History of Ecological Sciences, Part 58A: Marine Ecology, mid‐1920s to about 1990, Featuring Beebe, Bigelow, Ricketts

Cited by 3 publications

References 50 publications

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 61C: Marine Biogeography, 1690s–1940s

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 61C: Marine Biogeography, 1690s–1940s

The neglected contributions of William Beebe to the natural history of the deep-sea

Edward Flanders Ricketts and the marine ecology of the inner coast habitats of British Columbia, Canada

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