Marine bioligist and environmentalist
Subtitle: pycnogonids, progress, and preserving bays, salmon, and other living things
By: Joel W. Hedgpeth ; with an introduction by John A. McGowan. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1992. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; McGowan, John A., 1924-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1996
Subjects: Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.; Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1896-1948.; Pacific Marine Station (Dillon Beach, Calif.); Pacific Gas and Electric Company.; Oregon State University. Marine Science Center.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology.; Marine ecology -- California.; Environmental health -- California -- San Francisco Bay.; Marine biologists -- California -- Interviews.; Marine biology -- California.; Pycnogonida -- Research.; Environmentalists -- California -- Interviews.; Nuclear power plants -- California -- Bodega Bay.; Bodega Bay (Calif.); Antarctica -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University of California source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Joel Hedgpeth discusses his family and education, ecology, ecological communities and the work of Ed Ricketts, his time as Director of the Pacific Marine Station at Dillon Beach, the proposed Nuclear Power Plant of Pacific Gas and Electric at Bodega Bay, the Marine Science Center at Oregon State University, picnogonid research and Antarctica, and environmental health issues of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. In the course of the interviews he also touches upon editing the Treatise on marine ecology and paleoecology, and Ricketts' Between Pacific tides.