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5.3 Interview with Patricia Werner, August 13, 2014 RBRL416ESA-007 RBRL416ESA Ecological Society of America Oral History Collection Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Patricia Werner Dennis Knight oral history 0 Kaltura audio < ; iframe id=" ; kaltura_player" ; src=" ; https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1727411/sp/172741100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/26879422/partner_id/1727411?iframeembed=true& ; playerId=kaltura_player& ; entry_id=1_5shpm5xw& ; flashvars[localizationCode]=en& ; flashvars[leadWithHTML5]=true& ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.plugin]=true& ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.position]=left& ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.clickToClose]=true& ; flashvars[chapters.plugin]=true& ; flashvars[chapters.layout]=vertical& ; flashvars[chapters.thumbnailRotator]=false& ; flashvars[streamSelector.plugin]=true& ; flashvars[EmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget]=videoHolder& ; flashvars[dualScreen.plugin]=true& ; & ; wid=1_gatp3w78" ; width=" ; 304" ; height=" ; 231" ; allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen frameborder=" ; 0" ; title=" ; Kaltura Player" ; > ; < ; /iframe> ; English 55 Early life / Education So Pat, would you start please by describing to us briefly some of the reasons why you started to pursue a career in ecology and where it lead? Werner talks about what influenced her to go into the field of ecology and says that she had a great biology teacher in high school who influenced her to major in biology at Michigan State. She discusses taking her first ecology course with John Cantlon and deciding that she wanted to get her Ph.D with him. She also talks about working at the Kellogg Biological Research Station with Cantlon and studying teasel plants. botany ; colonizing species ; Ecologia ; John Harper ; Richard Moore ; William E. Cooper ; zoology 17 571 Post-graduate work / Working in Australia Okay, what transpired next? Werner talks about teaching a course for a year with Erik Goodman at Michigan State that taught both ecology and mathematical modeling. She left to do a post-doc in Iowa for a year, and then she was rehired at Michigan State where she stayed until 1986 when she left to work in Darwin, Australia where she studied the effects of disturbances on tree populations in the tropics. CSIRO ; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ; drought ; fire ; flood ; forest service ; Herman Koenig ; Kakadu national park ; NSF funding ; RAND program ; system science ; William Cooper 17 973 NSF Division Director Then you moved on to NSF for a two year term. Werner discuses her time as the National Science Foundation (NSF) division director. She talks about how she was able to help the Ecological Society of America (ESA) during this time by encouraging the NSF to support the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI) financially. American Chemical Society ; discretionary funding ; Eric Block ; Hal Mooney ; Jane Lubchenco ; John Brooks ; marine sciences ; Mary Clutter ; organizational structure ; proof of concept workshops ; Washington D.C 17 1587 University of Florida / Research Methods Back to a little more discussion about your research. Werner discusses her job at the University of Florida, saying that it was too administrative, so she went back to Australia to do more research. She also discusses her research methods and says that she has always been a " ; field experimenter person." ; Australian National University ; biodiversity loss ; biological hierarchy ; climate change ; competition ; David Lanenmayer ; Ecological Monographs ; Fenner School of Environment and Society ; fire ; John Cantlon ; Kakadu national park ; saplings ; shade ; understory ; water resources ; William Cooper 17 2084 Evaluation of current ecology profession / ESA What's your impression of ecology today compared to what it was when you were at Michigan State? Werner gives her opinion about the ecology profession today, commenting on how it is less focused on biology and more on global policy issues. She also talks about her involvement in the ESA, saying that she was always encouraged to attend the meetings by her teachers and that she still travels from Australia to attend the meetings. biodiversity ; biological science ; biosphere ; climate change ; grassland ecology ; John Cantlon ; plenary sessions ; Steve Stephenson ; William Cooper 17 No transcript. Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use). Parties interested in production or commercial use of the resources should contact the Russell Library for a fee schedule. audio 0 RBRL416ESA-007.xml RBRL416ESA-007.xml http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL416ESA/findingaid
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Sacramento, California
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43 minutes
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Patricia Werner was a member of the Ecological Society of America as well as a professor at Michigan State University. In this interview, she talks about her research regarding disturbances on tree populations in the tropics of Darwin, Australia. She also discusses her work as division director for the National Science Foundation.<br /><br />
<h3>Interview notes</h3>
Patricia Werner grew up near Flint, Michigan and enjoyed the outdoors. She had a fantastic middle grade and high school biology teacher who was challenging, used the Socratic method of teaching, and stayed after class to interact with students who were around. Patricia went to Michigan State to get her M.S. in 1968, with an emphasis on systematics. She took a course from John Cantlon and got her Ph.D. with him there. She worked at Kellogg Biological Research Station, on John’s field plots, and developed an interest in plant demography. <br /><br />John Cantlon was interested in succession and diversity patterns at the time. William E. Cooper in Zoology there was also very influential and taught at Kellogg. John became provost at MSU during her last year.<br /><br />Steve Stevensen at MSU was a plant ecologist that was helpful to her as a student there.<br /><br />She worked on teasel and used it for her experiments for her M.S., including size vs age in a biennial, influenced by John Harper.<br /><br /><strong>After PhD</strong><br /><br />Patricia stayed at MSU for another year, funded by the Research Applied to National Needs (RAND) program. She describes what she did as a participant in a multidisciplinary course, including modeling and student reactions. She then went to a post-doc in Iowa for a year with NSF funding, and then she and Earl Warner were hired back at MSU where she stayed until 1986 when she moved to Australia with CSIRO.<br /><br /><strong>Australia</strong><br /><br />After going to Australia on sabbatical, Patricia returned to work on the effects of disturbances on tree populations in the tropics. It was a good move for her and she was able to continue her research even though she became the director.<br /><br /><strong>NSF Division Director</strong><br /><br />Patricia became the NSF Division Director after John Brooks retired. Mary Clutter was her supervisor, from who she learned much about administration. NSF was not impressed with ecologists setting their priorities. The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative was encouraged by Patricia and NSF contributed, though not as much as the Mellon Foundation. Pat was able to promote ecology in NSF during the two years she was there, though it started before she arrived, and she describes how that happened through the SBI. It was important for ESA to organize its priorities and SBI might have been the first time ESA did this.<br /><br />Pat also supported proof of concept workshops while at NSF with her discretionary funding. <br /><br /><strong>University of Florida</strong><br /><br />Patricia was at the University of Florida for a while as head of wildlife, though it was more administration than she wanted, and became very ill toward the end when she retired. She then went back to Australia to the Australian National University.<br /><br /><strong>How have her research methods changed?</strong><br /><br />She is still doing experimental field studies (permanent plots) in northern Australia with an emphasis on the effects of natural disturbances. She liked to use the hierarchical approach for her research and considered competition as a process.<br /><br /><strong>Ecology as a profession</strong><br /><br />Patricia thinks of ecology as a biological science, but the plenary sessions have shifted to global issues and less on biology per se. That’s different from what ESA meetings used to have, she says.<br /><br /><strong>ESA</strong><br /><br />Meetings are important to attend and were encouraged by her mentors, to help them become professionals. Katherine (Kay) Gross was Pat’s first Ph.D. student, and Kay worked at Ohio State for a while.
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Agriculture and Industry
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Dennis H. Knight, a member of ESA’s Historical Records Committee, was the initial organizer of this collection, which helps document the history of ecology and the Ecological Society of America. The interviews were done by various ESA members and will continue into the future as the opportunity arises.<span> <br /><br /></span>Interview notes were written by Knight and others.<br /><br />All interviews in this collection have been indexed in OHMS.
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5.3 Interview with Dennis Knight, November 17, 2016 RBRL416ESA-024 RBRL416ESA Ecological Society of America Oral History Collection Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Dennis Knight William A. Reiners oral history 0 Kaltura audio < ; iframe id=" ; kaltura_player" ; src=" ; https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1727411/sp/172741100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/26879422/partner_id/1727411?iframeembed=true& ; playerId=kaltura_player& ; entry_id=1_d827au0w& ; flashvars[localizationCode]=en& ; amp ; flashvars[leadWithHTML5]=true& ; amp ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.plugin]=true& ; amp ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.position]=left& ; amp ; flashvars[sideBarContainer.clickToClose]=true& ; amp ; flashvars[chapters.plugin]=true& ; amp ; flashvars[chapters.layout]=vertical& ; amp ; flashvars[chapters.thumbnailRotator]=false& ; amp ; flashvars[streamSelector.plugin]=true& ; amp ; flashvars[EmbedPlayer.SpinnerTarget]=videoHolder& ; amp ; flashvars[dualScreen.plugin]=true& ; amp ; & ; wid=1_zma7hzoh" ; width=" ; 304" ; height=" ; 231" ; allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=" ; autoplay * ; fullscreen * ; encrypted-media *" ; frameborder=" ; 0" ; title=" ; Kaltura Player" ; > ; < ; /iframe> ; English 37 Early Life Dennis, as I said, you're probably the only ecologist I've known from South Dakota. Are you the only one you've known from South Dakota as well? And tell me about your origin. What was life there as you grew up in South Dakota? Knight describes growing up in Clear Lake, a small rural town in South Dakota and his appreciation of the nearby glacial moraines and prairie potholes while hunting and fishing. He mentions how the beauty of the birds he killed prompted him to take up taxidermy. Knight talks about how his curiosity about why Clear Lake was not clear caused him to learn the history of the lake and discover that erosion had made the lake muddy. He talks about his involvement with sports and music. He describes how his first role model was his high school coach who also taught biology. Knight talks about his involvement with Boy Scouts and the importance of a Boy Scout canoe trip to the Boundary Waters that furthered his interest in wilderness areas. duck hunting ; ecologists ; gas station ; native vegetation ; Northwestern School of Taxidermy ; parents ; peasant hunting ; prairie grasses ; waterfall hunting 17 495 Augustana College I know you went to Augustana College. What lead you to Augustana? Knight describes the influence of Sven Froiland, the department head of biology, on his decision to attend Augustana college in 1955. Knight talks about the appeal of a taxidermy job that Froiland offered him where he would shoot birds and prepare their skins for a new ornithology class. He discusses the mentorship of Sven Froiland who was a botanist and naturalist and Will Rosine who was an invertebrate zoologist. Knight describes his appreciation of the field trips that Froiland and Rosine took students on. ecology ; Eugene Odum ; field trips ; field work ; Fundamentals of Ecology ; liberal arts college ; Lutheran ; Sioux Falls 17 879 Evolution of ecological interests and connection to Boundary Waters Now your initial interest in, uh, nature was really, really revolved around birds, and then you started working with plants and vegetation. How did that come about? Knight describes the shift in his interests from birds to vegetation. He discusses watching birds with the region's leading ornithologist, Herb Krause. Knight talks about his job leading Boy Scout canoe trips in the Boundary Waters at Quetico Provincial Park over the summer. He describes how his decision to conduct research during his canoe trips prompted him to study vegetation because he could not stay in one place long enough to study birds. He discusses his use of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness Research Center on Basswood Lake for his research on the area's plants. He talks about working with the center's director, Cliff Ahlgren, in the summer of 1959 before he attended graduate school. Knight discusses his emotional connection to the Boundary Waters due to the clean water, forests, and lack of roads. He talks about his continued fascination with the area and the numerous canoe trips that he has gone on in the Boundary Waters over the course of his life. canoe guide ; ecology ; football ; voyagers ; wilderness canoe guide ; ecology ; football ; voyagers ; wilderness 17 1507 Decision to attend graduate school Well lets go back, uh. Now, you were at Augustana. You were a biology major. You started developing an interest in plants and vegetation. There must have been a critical point there in which you decided to go graduate school... Knight describes how his experience as an undergraduate teaching assistance at Augustana College made him want to become a biology professor instead of pursuing wildlife management which he also enjoyed. He talks about the influence Fairfield Osborn's book< ; i> ; Our Plundered Planet.< ; /i> ; He mentions the column of the local Soil Conservation Service agent that he read in the Clear Lake newspaper as a child. He also describes discovering Pierre Dansereau’ book, < ; i> ; Biogeography, < ; /i> ; which sparked his interest in ecology. He summarizes his decision to attend graduate school as a result of his experience as a teaching assistant, his discovery that it was possible to make a living taking students outdoors, various ecology books, role-models, his independent research project in the Boundary Waters, and financial assistance in the form of a teaching assistantship. Knight talks about the impact of reading papers on Great Lakes forests written by John Curtis, Grant Cottam, Robert McIntosh, and Roger Bray on his decision to attend the University of Wisconsin. He also describes his love of Wisconsin's landscape. bird watching ; farming ; Madison ; soil erosion ; wind erosion 17 2125 John Curtis and Orie Loucks Did you start at Wisconsin assigned to a mentor? Knight describes his work with John Curtis, his first adviser, on the structural, functional characteristics of plants--now called trait-based community analysis. He talks about the shift in Curtis's career from plant physiology to plant community ecology. Knight talks about working with Orie Loucks, who became his adviser after Curtis's death. He discusses the highlights of Loucks' career including his research on gradient analysis through a scalar approach and his contribution to banning DDT in Wisconsin. ecosystem ; Grant Cottam ; pollution ; Silent Spring ; University of Wisconsin ; upland vegetation ; Wisconsin Arboretum 17 3069 Daubenmire-Curtis debate and the evolution of the ESA Did you have a sense of how the ecological perspective of Wisconsin might be different from that of other leading plant ecology programs in the country? Knight describes the debate about the nature of the plant community which was lead by Rexford F. Daubenmire at Washington State University and John Curtis at the University of Wisconsin. He discusses how Daubenmire argued that competitive exclusion created abrupt boundaries in the environment while Curtis asserted that abrupt environmental boundaries were only created by sharp changes in the environment itself. Knight goes on to talk about how he became involved in the Ecological Society of America (ESA) as a graduate student in order to network with others in the field. He reflects on the changes in the ESA, describing how it currently much larger than when he first got involved. Chicago ; graduate school ; plant ecology ; scientific debate ; Stillwater, Oklahoma ; university campuses 17 3397 Research and Peace Corps in Latin America Well, I need to say that I, uh, I finished my master's thesis which was on prairie vegetation, structural functional analysis of prairie and then I did my dissertation on forests, but right in between... Knight describes his introduction to tropical ecology when he went to Panama in the summer of 1961 with herpetologists Owen Sexton and Harold Heatwole. He talks about continuing his study of the tropics with short-term work in Costa Rica and on Barro Colorado Island (run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute). Knight describes how he met prominent tropical ecologist, Leslie Holdridge who became his mentor after first being critical of Knight's work. He discusses how he returned to Wisconsin to finish his PhD before going back to Latin America with the Peace Corps to teach ecology and botany at the University of Loja in Ecuador. He describes how the impact of his experience in the tropics enabled him to compare tropical ecology to the temperate ecology back in Wisconsin. Amazon ; convergent evolution ; draft ; Galapagos Island ; Korean War ; Luther College ; post-doc ; sampling ; vegetation ; Vietnam War 17 4217 Move to University of Wyoming So then there must have been a, uh, another round of looking for new careers. Knight talks about joining the faculty of the University of Wyoming in 1966 after hearing about the job from a friend. He describes continuing his research on tropical ecology on Barro Colorado Island which led to a paper in the < ; i> ; Ecological Monographs< ; /i> ; journal on the phytosociology of a species-rich tropical forest. He discusses his decision to move away from tropical ecology and do research closer to home with the Grassland Biome of the International Biological Program (IBP) at the Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado. He describes becoming increasing interested in ecosystem ecology at the IBP. Knight talks about how he drifted away from the IBP to do work in Wyoming with Rocky Mountain coniferous forest ecology and management, studying the impact of forest fires and clearcutting on the ecology of natural areas. George Van Dyne ; Gerald “Jerry” Lang ; Kimball Harper ; lodgepole pine forests ; Yellowstone National Park 17 4771 Work with students Let me interrupt for a minute. You said " ; students working down there." ; Did the botany department at University of Wyoming have a master's graduate program at that time? Knight talks about how the University of Wyoming introduced a PhD program in botany in the mid-1970s after only having a master's level program. He describes the difficulty of doing research while managing heavy course loads. Knight talks about the work of his first PhD student, William H. “Bill” Romme, on the fire history in Yellowstone National Park. Knight mentions working with Romme on a paper about the landscape diversity and shifting mosaic steady states in wildland landscapes. He describes working on manipulative experiments in the Medicine Bow National Forest where he researched water and nutrients through a stand-level approach, which led to new methods, including modeling. Knight talks about comparing natural disturbances such as fires, bark beetles, and wind to that of timber harvesting. He describes wondering about the timber industry's impact due to removing large tree boles from the forest when historically every square foot of the forest had a tree growing on it or a log lying over it. Biolife ; biomass ; coarse woody debris ; Daniel Tinker ; ecology ; general biology ; hydrology ; Jim Reynolds ; Joe Yavitt ; John Pearson ; large-diameter wood ; Linda Wallace ; lodgepole pine forests ; Rocky Mountains ; Tim Fahey ; timber harvesting ; watershed 17 5661 1988 Yellowstone Fires and < ; i> ; Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes< ; /i> ; You mentioned, uh--with respect to Bill Romme's work--the 1988 fire in uh--or groups of fires--in Yellowstone National Park... Knight describes his limited involvement in the assessment of the impacts of the 1988 Yellowstone fires while on the advisory committee for the investigation. He talks about how his enjoyment of synthesizing the ecological literature in a way that was accessible by the general public motivated him to write < ; i> ; Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes.< ; /i> ; He talks about his enjoyment of his vegetation ecology class and states that teaching was his greatest contribution to ecology as a science. He describes his decision to publish a second edition of < ; i> ; Mountains and Plains< ; /i> ; in order to include the effects of climate change, habitat fragmentation, and sage grouse as a threatened species. Bill Reiners ; ecological literacy ; George Jones ; land management ; sabbatical leave 17 6188 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Now we have been talking about, recently, your career with respect to teaching and some of your contributions to our understanding of nature, but you became more seriously engaged in Ecological Society of America activities to the extent of becoming president... Knight describes attending ESA meetings with students, but he says that he did not really become involved until George Woodwell asked him to be ESA Program Chair. He talks about becoming vice-president and finally becoming president from 1989 to 1990. He states that he considers his paper in the < ; i> ; Bulletin< ; /i> ; (1991, the essence of his past-presidents address) one of his best despite the fact that it has not been frequently cited. He also describes his involvement in the ESA's Public Affairs Committee due to his desire to improve the general public's ecological literacy. He talks about joining the ESA Historical Records Committee to plan the organization's centennial in 2015. Knight describes the changes in the ESA during his involvement, including an increase in members and a more competitive grant application process. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) ; ESA 75th anniversary ; Indiana University ; Penn State University 17 6833 Evolution of ecology Do you feel like, uh, the progress of ecology which, lets call it understanding nature from an ecological point of view, the biology--biological interactions with nature, is, uh, robust as it was in other times during your career? Knight describes his increased selectivity in what ecological research he follows, emphasizing applicable research that involves issues like climate change and habitat fragmentation. He mentions that he hopes ecology is as robust as it used to be, but states that he does not really know if that is the case. Knight describes changes in his own career as he shifted from studying visible characteristics of ecosystems like vegetation to invisible characteristics like nutrient composition. He talks about how the scale of ecological research has increased even if the concepts stay the same. He states that ecologists now study entire landscapes instead of smaller areas through the single-stand approach. Ecological Society of America (ESA) ; fundamentals ; natural history 17 7155 Recent work and career highlights Uh, well, what are you doing these days? Knight talks about his involvement on the Board of Trustees for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Governing Council of the Wyoming Wilderness Association (WWA). He describes his current collaboration with W. Carter Johnson on the ecology of Dakota landscapes. He summarizes the fondest memories of his career as working with graduate students, teaching and leading field trips in Wyoming, working with great colleagues (including team-teaching an ecosystem course with William (Bill) Reiner), and being in a profession that enabled him to travel. Knight comments on the importance of role models, mentors, good advising, and good colleagues. He mentions how ecology is changing in positive ways and becoming more collaborative. He talks about the increased accuracy of the media and the positive affect of new methods of communication and information technology. He also mentions the existence of a greater variety of ecology journals which enables more researchers to become published. < ; i> ; Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes< ; /i> ; ; agro-ecosystem ; collaboration ; diversity ; funding ; multiple authors ; plains ; preservation ; roadless areas ; vegetation ecology 17 Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use). Parties interested in production or commercial use of the resources should contact the Russell Library for a fee schedule. audio 0 RBRL416ESA-024.xml RBRL416ESA-024.xml http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL416ESA/findingaid
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Laramie, Wyoming
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William Reiners
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Dennis Knight was a professor at the University of Wyoming. He served as the president of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) from 1989-1990 and has also served on the ESA's Historical Records Committee. He is the main interviewer for this collection. In this interview, Knight discusses the evolution of his career in ecology, highlighting the work of mentors and students. He talks about his involvement with the ESA and how the organization has changed.
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