CURRICULUM VITAE
James E. King, Ph.D.
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0077 (dept.) 520 621 7953 indexking@juno.com Born: Escanaba, Michigan, July 23, 1940, United States Citizen
Education:
1964 M.S. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Botany) 1972 Ph.D. University of Arizona, Tucson (Geosciences) 2002 D.Sc. Alma College, Alma, Michigan (honorary) Experience:
1962-64 Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Mexico, Albuquerque. Palynology and plant ecology assistant to Dr. Loren D. Potter. 1964-66 Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Taught basic botany courses and assisted in plant ecology courses under Dr. John E. Cantlon. 1966-68 Plant Industry Inspector, Michigan Department of Agriculture, Lansing. Assigned to various plant pest control programs, commercial nursery inspection, and plant disease research at the experimental farm and greenhouse. 1968-71 Research Assistant, Department of Geochronology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Research assistant in palynology and Quaternary paleoenvironments to Dr. Paul S. Martin. Conducted a wide range of ecological and paleoecological research projects throughout the southwest. 1971-72 Research Associate, Department of Geosciences (same department new name), University of Arizona, Tucson. Assisted in teaching Quaternary paleoenvironments and Pleistocene Biology. Conducted plant ecology and palynology research in the Grand Canyon and southwestern deserts. Completed dissertation research in western Missouri. 1972-78 Associate Curator of Paleobotany, Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Developed the Museum's program in Quaternary paleoenvironmental studies; worked with existing museum education and exhibits programs. Conducted palynological research into the Quaternary paleoecology of Missouri, Illinois, and the central Midwest. 1978-85 Head of Scientific Sections and Full Curator, Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Responsible for planning, budgets, operation, and coordination of the four scientific sections (anthropology, botany, geology, and zoology; average scientific staff of 15 Ph.D.s, 10 MA's, and 15 BA level technical personnel). Evaluation of scientific staff and programs. Oversight of museum grants, contracts, and scientific fund raising. Responsible for Museum's scientific laboratory facility and staff. 1985-87 Assistant Director for Science, Illinois State Museum, Springfield. Responsible for all aspects of the science sections and facilities; reported to the Museum Director. Responsible for representing the Museum's scientific interests within state and federal government. 1979-88 Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana. Taught graduate palynology course and Quaternary paleoenvironments seminars. Advisor to graduate students in Quaternary studies. 1987-1996 Director, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. 1996-2000 Director, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio. Retired December 31, 2000
Professional Organizations and Activities:
American Quaternary Association (Treasurer and member of executive committee, 1976-1984) American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Association of Science Museum Directors (Vice-President 1990-1993, President 1993-1996) Association of Systematic Collections (President 1990-1993, Board member 1988-1993) Research Interests:
Grants and Contracts:
Joint Academic Appointments, Service on Graduate Committees, Government Appointments, etc.:
1980 to 1987 - Editorial board of the Journal of Archaeological Science published by Academic Press, London. 1983 to 1987 - Adjunct Professor of Biology, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois. 1985 (January to April) Visiting Scientist in residence, Alma College, Alma, Michigan. 1988 to 1996 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 1988 - Adjunct Research Scientist, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Graduate Committees at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Botany), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Geology), Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri (Biology) and the University of Illinois, Urbana (Geology). Service on State of Illinois, Department of Energy and Natural Resources advisory committees for Lands Unsuitable for Surface Mining Program, Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center, Siting the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Illinois, and numerous single purpose task forces and committees. Fellow of the Illinois State Academy of Science, President 1981-1982. President of Springfield, Illinois Sigma XI chapter 1985-1986. American Association of Museum's 1988 program community activities committee in the Pittsburgh area and Co-Chair of the AAM 1999 annual meeting in Cleveland. University of Pittsburgh Advisory Committee on Environmental Health. Board member Allegheny Land Trust, Pittsburgh, 1985-1987 Board member Western Pennsylvania Conversancy, 1987 Member of Systematics Agenda 2000 (a national museum research task force) Member of Leadership Pittsburgh, 1988 Member of Leadership Cleveland, 1998 Executive Committee member of University Circle, Inc., Cleveland 1996-2000 Board member Chargin River Watershed Partners (regional conservation organization) 1997-2000 Board member Cleveland Cultural Coalition 1996-2000 Kellogg Advisory Committee to the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 1998-2000 Publications: King, J. E., and R. O. Kapp. 1963. Modern Pollen Rain Studies in Eastern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Botany 41: 243-252. King, J. E. 1964. Modern Pollen Rain and Fossil Profiles, Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. M.S. Thesis, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 50 p. King, J. E. 1967. Modern Pollen Rain and Fossil Pollen in Soils in the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52: 31-41. Mehringer, P. J., Jr., J. E. King, and E. H. Lindsay. 1970. A Record of Wisconsin-Age Vegetation and Fauna from the Ozarks of Western Missouri. In: Pleistocene and Recent Environments of the Central Great Plains, edited by W. Dort, Jr., and J. K. Jones, Jr., pp. 173-183. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. Wood, W. R., and J. E. King. 1970. Wisconsin Vegetational and Fauna History in the Ozark Highlands, Missouri. Absts. of Papers, American Quaternary Association, 1970 meeting. p. 156. Van Devender, T. R., and J. E. King. 1971. Late Pleistocene Vegetation Records in Western Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 6: 240-244. King, J. E. 1971. The Pleistocene and the Plains. A review of W. Dort, Jr., and J. K. Jones, Jr., (eds.), Pleistocene and Recent Environments of the Central Great Plains. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. Ecology 52: 735-736. King, J. E. 1972. Late Pleistocene Biogeography of the Western Missouri Ozarks. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. 118 p. King, J. E., and W. R. Sigleo. 1973. Modern Pollen in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Geoscience and Man 7: 73-81. King, J. E. 1973. Computer Mapping of Desert Vegetation. A review of J. R. Hastings, R. A. Turner, and D. K. Warren, An Atlas of Some Plant Distributions in the Sonoran Desert. Technical Reports on the Meteorology and Climatology of Arid Regions, No. 21; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson. Ecology 54: 1411. King, J. E. 1973. Late Pleistocene Palynology and Biogeography of the Western Missouri Ozarks. Ecological Monographs 43: 539-565. Solomon, A. M., J. E. King, P. S. Martin, and J. Thomas. 1973. Further Scanning Electron Photomicrographs of Southwestern Pollen Grains. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 8: 135-157. McMillan, R. B., and J. E. King. 1974. Evidence for Holocene Biogeographic Change in Missouri's Western Ozarks. Absts. of Papers, American Quaternary Association, 1974 meeting, p. 119. King, J. E. 1974. Vegetational History of the Isle of Skye. A review of H. J. B. Birks, Past and Present Vegetation of the Isle of Skye: a Paleoecological Study, Cambridge University Press. Ecology 55: 680-681. King, J. E. 1974. A Key to Nature's Golden Dust. A review of J. H. McAndrews, A. A. Berti, and G. Norris, Key to the Quaternary Pollen and Spores of the Great Lakes Region, Miscellaneous Publication, Life Sciences, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Ecology 55: 20. King, J. E., W. E. Klippel, and R. Duffield. 1975. Pollen Preservation and Archaeology in Eastern North America. America Antiquity 40: 180-190. Van Devender, T. R., and J. E. King. 1975. Fossil Blanding's Turtles, (Hollbrook), and the Late Pleistocene Vegetation of Western Missouri. Herpetologica 31: 208-212. King, J. E. and E. H. Lindsay. 1976. Late Pleistocene Biotic Records from Spring Deposits in the Western Missouri Ozarks. In: Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland, edited by W. R. Wood and R. B. McMillan, pp. 63-78. Academic Press, N.Y. King, J. E., J. A. Lineback, and D. L. Gross. 1976. Palynology and Sedimentology of Holocene Deposits in Southern Lake Michigan. Illinois State Geological Survey Circular No. 496. Urbana. 24 p. McAndrews, J. H. and J. E. King. 1976. Pollen of the North American Quaternary: the Top Twenty. Geosciences and Man 15: 41-49. King, J. E. 1977. Vegetational History of the Prairie Peninsula, USA. Absts., X INQUA Congress, Birmingham, U.K. p. 242. King, J. E. and T. R. Van Devender. 1977. Pollen Analysis of Fossil Packrat Middens from the Sonoran Desert. Quaternary Research 8: 191-204. King, J. E. and W. H. Allen, Jr. 1977. A Holocene Vegetation Record from the Mississippi River Valley, Southeastern Missouri. Quaternary Research 8: 307-323. King, J. E. 1978. Holocene Pollen Studies in the Prairie Peninsula. Absts. of Papers, American Quaternary Association, 1978 meeting. p. 217. King, J. E. 1978. New Evidence on the History of the St. Francis Sunk Lands, Northeastern Arkansas. Geological Society of America Bulletin 89: 1719-1722. King, J. E. 1979. Pollen Analysis of some Farmdalian and Woodfordian Deposits in Central Illinois. In: Wisconsinan, Sangamonian, and Illinoian Stratigraphy in Central Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, Guidebook No. 13. pp. 109-113. Duffield, R. and J. E. King. 1980. Sample Size and Palynology: A Midwestern Test. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 72: 1-7. King, J. E. 1980. Late Quaternary Vegetation of Illinois, USA. Absts. 5th International Palynological Conference, Cambridge, U.K. p. 201. King, J. E. 1980. Post-Pleistocene Vegetational Changes in the Midwestern United States. In: Archaic Prehistory of the Prairie-Plains Border, edited by A. E. Johnson, pp. 3-11. Publications in Anthropology No. 12, University of Kansas, Lawrence. King, J. E. 1981. Late Quaternary Vegetational History of Illinois. Ecological Monographs 51: 43-62. Haynes, C. V., M. Stuiver, H. Hass, J. E. King, F. B. King, and J. J. Saunders. 1983. Mid-Wisconsinan Radiocarbon Dates from Mastodon- and Mammoth-Bearing Springs, Ozark Highland, Missouri. Radiocarbon 25: 381-391. King, J. E. and J. J. Saunders. 1984. Environmental Insularity and the Extinction of the American Mastodont. In: Quaternary Extinctions: A Prehistoric Revolution, edited by P. S. Martin and R. G. Klein, pp. 315-339. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. King, J. E. 1985. Palynological Applications to the Study of Archaeology: An Overview. In: Archaeological Geology, edited by G. Rapp, Jr. and J. A. Gifford, pp. 135-154. Yale University Press, New Haven. King, J. E. 1985. Pollen Analysis of Samples from Core CH#2. Appendix C In: The Alexander Site, Conway County, Arkansas, edited by E. T. Hemmings and J. H. House, pp. 129-132. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 24, Fayetteville. Meyers, R. L. and J. E. King. 1985. Wisconsinan Interstadial Vegetation of Northern Illinois. Illinois State Geological Survey, Guidebook No. 19, pp. 75-86. Bhowmik, N. G., J. E. King, and others. 1985. Long-Term Ecological Research on Illinois Rivers. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 78: 247-261. King, J. E. and J. J. Saunders. 1986. Geochelone in Illinois and the Illinoian-Sangamonian Vegetation of the Type Region. Quaternary Research 25: 89-99. King, J. E. and R. W. Graham. 1986. Vertebrates and Vegetation along the Southern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Absts. of Papers, American Quaternary Association, 1986 meeting. King, J. E. 1988. Palynology of Midcontinental Spring Deposits. In: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archeology of the Eastern Great Lakes Region, edited by R. S. Laub, N. G. Miller, and D. W. Steadman, pp. 151-158. Proceedings of the Smith Symposium, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY. Heusser, L. E. and J. E. King. 1988. (Plio-Pleistocene Vegetation History of) North America, with Special Emphasis on the Development of the Pacific Coastal Forest and Prairie/Forest Boundary Prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. In: B. Huntley and T. Webb III (eds.) Vegetation History, Vol. VII, pp. 193-236, in H. Leith (ed.) Handbook of Vegetation Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Smiley, T. L,, R. A. Bryson, J. E. King, G. J. Kukla, and G. I. Smith. 1991. Quaternary Paleoclimates, in Morrison R. B., (ed.) Quaternary Nonglacial Geology: Conterminous U.S. The Geology of North America, Vol. K-2, pp. 13-44, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado. King, F. B. and J. E. King. 1996. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Reconstruction: An Example from the Ozark Highland. In: Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, edited by E. J. Reitz, L. A. Newsom, and S. J. Scudder. Plenum Press, New York. Kapp, R. O., O. K. Davis, and J. E. King. 2000. Pollen and Spores, second edition. A standard reference manual for the identification of fossil pollen grains. Published by the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation. 279 pages. Popular Publications: Occasional articles for popular format publications on aspects of environmental history, ice age vegetation, palynology, museum research and collections. Short books on natural history for the public. December 2002 |