George Van Dyne
George Van Dyne (1933โ1981) was a pioneer of systems ecology and served as the first director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in the United States.[1]
Early career
Van Dyne was brought up on a ranch at
Scientific recognition
According to soviet geographer Viktor Sochava, the most advanced geosystems modeling was made by George Van Dyne at desert-steep territories of Colorado. His researches were presented by V. Sochava in 1970 at the meeting of All-Union Geographical Society.[3] However, from that time Van Dyne's works were well known only at the Institute of Geography at the Siberian branch of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Irkutsk, which Van Dyne visited by Sochava's invitation. Only after his death, Van Dyne was understood in the Soviet Union as one of the most sophisticated western ecologists and his works were used as an example at the scientific council about biosphere problems at Soviet Academy of Sciences.
References
- ^ History of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
- ^ Coleman, David; Swift, David; Mitchell, John (2004). "From the Frontier to the Biosphere". Rangelands. 26 (4). Society for Range Management: 8โ15. .
- ^ Sobisevich A. V., Snytko V. A., Postnikov A. V. The surrounding environment monitoring in the Soviet Union: a review of establishing new "ecological" science // IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2019. Vol. 350. # 1. P. 1โ6.