Margaret Bryan Davis
Margaret Bryan Davis | |
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Born | Margaret Bryan October 23, 1931 (age 92) Boston, Massachusetts , U.S. |
Occupation(s) | biologist and paleoecologist |
Known for | work in the study of plant pollen and past vegetation |
Spouse | Rowland Davis |
Margaret Bryan Davis (née Margaret Bryan; born October 23, 1931) is an American
Early life and education
Davis was born on October 23, 1931. She spent her childhood and early adolescence in the greater Boston area.[7] She married Rowland Davis in 1956. The couple divorced in 1970.[8]
Davis received a B.A from
Career
After her postdoctoral positions at Caltech and Yale, Davis joined the botany department at the University of Michigan in 1961 as a research associate. In 1964 she became an associate research biologist at the University's Great Lakes Research Division, and in 1966 she was appointed an associate professor of zoology. In 1970, she was promoted to full professor.[9][11] In 1973 Davis returned to Yale to serve as a professor of biology, where she worked until 1976. In 1976, she became a professor and head of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. In 1982, she was appointed Regents Professor of Ecology[12] and is now a Regents Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.[9][13][14][15]
Her 1963 paper, "On the Theory of Pollen Analysis",[4] greatly impacted the study of pollen records and their interpretation and led to studies of how well the distribution of a species' pollen reflects the population numbers of the trees that produced it. Her later research mapping the migration of tree species illustrated the differential timing and directions of movement for species during the past 14,000 years in North America.[1][2] This work has been influential in predicting the migration of tree species that may results from global climate changes.[7] She also hypothesized that disease caused the decline in hemlock populations about 5,300 years ago in the northeastern US.[16] Starting in the 1980s while at the University of Minnesota, Davis studied long-term forest dynamics of forest communities at the Sylvania Wilderness in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. These old growth forests contain a mosaic of sugar maple and hemlock stands. She and her graduate students studied the fossil pollen throughout the forest. Their detailed analyses allowed them to trace local variation in forest composition through time and to see how disturbances such as windstorms and fire relate to changes in the forest.[17]
Activism
When her husband Rowland obtained a job in the Department of Botany at the University of Michigan, she accepted a research position at the University in order to have a job near him. In a 1972
Awards and honors
From 1978 - 1980 she served as the president of American Quaternary Association.[8] Davis also served as the president of the Ecological Society of America from 1987 to 1988. In 1982, she became the first woman from the University of Minnesota to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[18] She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.[12] In 1993, she became the 6th recipient of the Nevada Medal, awarded by the Desert Research Institute.[19] That same year she became the 3rd woman to receive the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America.[20] In 2009, she became an honoree of
In 2011, she received a William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America.[22] In 2012, she was elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.[23] She is a member of the International Association for Vegetation Science[24] and a Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.[25]
She received an honorary doctorate from the College of Biological Sciences of the University of Minnesota in 2012.[26]
Publications
Some of her most significant publications are:
- M. B. Davis Three pollen diagrams from central Massachusetts, 1958, American Journal of Science 256 pages 540-570. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.256.8.540
- Margaret B. Davis Pollen diagrams as evidence of late-glacial climatic change in southern New England, 1961, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 95 pages 623-631
- M. B. Davis Redeposition of pollen grains in lake sediments, 1968, Science 162 pages 796-799
- Margaret B. Davis Pleistocene biogeography of temperate deciduous forests, 1976, Geoscience and Man 13 pages 13-26
- Margaret B. Davis Erosion rates and land-use history in southern Michigan, 1976, Environmental Conservation 3 pages 139-148. doi:10.1017/S0376892900018269
- Margaret B. Davis Lags in vegetation response to Greenhouse warming, 1989, Climatic Change 15 pages 75–82. doi.org/10.1007/BF00138846
References
- ^ a b Davis, Margaret. "Pleistocene biogeography of temperate deciduous forests". Geoscience and Man. 13: 13–26.
- ^ a b West, D. C. (1981). Forest Succession. New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 132–177.
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- ^ "Eminent Ecologist Award" (PDF). Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ a b Rafferty, John P. 2014. Margaret Bryan Davis. Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1756681/Margaret-Bryan-Davis
- ^ a b c Oakes, Elizabeth H. 2000. Davis, Margaret B. in Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Facts on File Science Library. p. 174.
- ^ a b c Oakes, Elizabeth H. 2000. Davis, Margaret B. in Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Facts on File Science Library. p. 174
- ^ p. 106 in Foster, David R. 2014. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press.
- ^ a b Hampton, Kathleen. 1972. Sex Discrimination: The Case Of Margaret Bryan Davis. Ann Arbor News. March 19, 1972. http://oldnews.aadl.org/taxonomy/term/2371
- ^ a b "Award-Winning Faculty and Staff | College of Biological Sciences". cbs.umn.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ Wayne, Tiffany K. 2011. American Women of Science Since 1900: Essays A-H. Vol.1. ABC-CLIO, LLC. p. 332-333/
- ^ "4 Women Honored for Roles in Science". Pioneer Press. January 25, 1991.
- ^ 4 Women Honored for Roles in Science. St. Paul Pioneer Press. January 25, 1991 - 2B Metro.
- ^ p. 107 in Foster, David R. 2014. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press.
- ^ University of Minnesota Webpage for Margaret B. Davis "Margaret B. Davis | College of Biological Sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- ^ "Margaret B. Davis | College of Biological Sciences". cbs.umn.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ Palynologists in the News: 1993 Nevada Medal to Margaret Davis. AASP Newsletter April 1993, Vol. 26, no. 2, p. 12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
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- ^ "Our Honorary members". Archived from the original on 2019-06-12. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
- ^ "Margaret B. Davis | University Awards and Honors". uawards.dl.umn.edu.