Box 77
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Contains 15 Results:
No. 852 Ashley Kijowski, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 1
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Ashley Kijowski, aquatics research scientist for the Utah Division of Natural Resources, was born in St. Charles, Illinois and grew up recreating in northern Wisconsin. After taking a bachelor’s in biology at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal, she worked as lab coordinator for the University of South Dakota’s dragonfly lab and then pursued a master’s degree in aquatic ecology at South Dakota....
Dates:
2014
No. 853 K. Gordon Lark, 2015
File — Box: 77, Folder: 2
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Karl Gordon Lark’s father was the head of the physics department at Purdue and his mother was an artist and a psychologist. They emigrated from Austria to Indiana, where Lark grew up. When Lark was fifteen, he attended the University of Chicago. He then took a Phage Course at Cold Spring Harbor before working in a molecular biology laboratory. After finishing at the University of Chicago, Lark returned to Cold...
Dates:
2015
No. 854 John Luft, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 3
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John Luft, director of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, discusses his origins, life, and work. Born in Bucklin, Kansas, to a farming family, he grew up farming, fishing and hunting and credits his father and grandfather for instilling in him a love of the outdoors and sense of stewardship. Educated at Kansas State University in wildlife biology, he farmed off and on and...
Dates:
2014
No. 855 John Neill, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 4
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Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ John Neill works on the bird aspect of the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program and also liaises with local nonprofit Linking Communities, Wetlands, and Migratory Birds, was born in Pittsburgh. His family moved to South Ogden when he was two, and he grew up in the area and recreated frequently on Great Salt Lake and at Antelope Island. After completing bachelor’s degree, in biology...
Dates:
2014
No. 856 Ken Owens, 2013
File — Box: 77, Folder: 5
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Professor of History Emeritus Ken Owens of Sacramento State University discusses his academic development, career, and participation in the Western History Association. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, he attended Lewis and Clark College in Portland and worked under Arthur L. Throckmorton, who encouraged him to work with Ernest S. Osgood at the University of Minnesota. Despite Dr. Osgood’s retirement shortly after...
Dates:
2013
No. 857 Kyle Stone, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 6
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Kyle Stone, biologist with Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program, describes his work. Born in Ogden, Kyle is a lifelong Weber County resident. He graduated from Fremont High in Plain City, and took a bachelor’s in zoology at Weber State University, where he worked for Dr. John Cavitt in the avian ecology lab. At DWR since 2010, he works mostly with brine shrimp and birds. He...
Dates:
2014
No. 858 Jim VanLeeuwen, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 7
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Salt Lake-born Jim Van Leeuwen grew up mostly at Dugway Proving Grounds, where his parents were civilian employees. He attended Weber State University, where he received a degree in zoology and criminal justice. An avid outdoorsman and lover of wildlife, he works for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program. Jim talks about his weekly boating expeditions on the Lake to check brine...
Dates:
2014
No. 859 Gary Belovsky, 2015
File — Box: 77, Folder: 8
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Dr. Gary Belovsky received his PhD from Harvard in Organismic Biology, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, where he started a research program in Montana that he continued for thirty-eight years. He later accepted an appointment at Utah State University, before being recruited to the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center. While in Utah in the mid-1990s, Belovsky was asked...
Dates:
2015
No. 860 Jaimi Butler, 2014
File — Box: 77, Folder: 9
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Jaimi Butler works for the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. She began her career working for the Berryman Institure of Wildlife Damage Management, studying eared grebes at the Great Salt Lake. There she was first introduced to the spiders at the marina, and began to study the interconnected nature of mercury acculumations of the food chain at the Great Salt Lake. Butler then worked for the Utah...
Dates:
2014
No. 861 Tim DeChristopher, 2009
File — Box: 77, Folder: 10
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Tim DeChristopher was born in West Virginia to environmentalist parents, and spent a lot of time outdoors. When he was seven, his family moved to the suburbs of Pittsburgh, where he felt detached from his values and the things he cared about. DeChristopher went to Arizona State University, where he was about to reconnect with the land. There, he was part of the only environmental group on campus at the time. He...
Dates:
2009