2008
John and Vicki Pearse
Professor Emeritus of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research Associate of the Institute of Marine Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
pearse@biology.ucsc.edu
vpearse@ucsc.edu
WSN meetings, starting >40 years ago, initiated John & Vicki into a lifetime of active participation in biological societies, communities in which both were destined to become leaders (John, President of WSN, California Academy of Sciences, International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology; Vicki, President of the American Microscopical Society.) They are passionate about marine invertebrates and have shared this enthusiasm at every opportunity with a multitude of students and other colleagues, through their teaching, editing (e.g, the 7-volume treatise Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates, with Arthur Giese; the journal Invertebrate Biology by Vicki), textbooks (Animals Without Backbones and Living Invertebrates, with Vicki’s parents, Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum), and other writings. John’s research has spanned reproductive biology, the rocky intertidal, and kelp forest ecology. His favorite animals are echinoderms; Vicki’s are cnidarians and placozoans. The two have worked and published on these and other organisms, both separately and as a team, mostly on the California coast but ranging willingly from tropical to antarctic waters. They haven’t stopped yet.
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