Background
Gentry, Roger Lee was born on March 19, 1938 in Bakersfield, California, United States. Son of Roger Howard and Harriette Viola (Childs) Gentry.
Gentry, Roger Lee was born on March 19, 1938 in Bakersfield, California, United States. Son of Roger Howard and Harriette Viola (Childs) Gentry.
Bachelor, California State University, San Francisco, 1962; Master of Arts, California State University, San Francisco, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1970.
Post-doctoral fellow, Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, U. Adelaide, Australia, 1970-1971; research faculty, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971-1974; research wildlife biologist National Marine Mammal Laboratory,, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, since 1974. Participant Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) Consultation on Marine Mammals, Bergen, Norway, 1976;member United States delegate to the Standing Science Committee for the Interim Convention on North Pacific Fur Seals, Moscow, 1980, 84, Ottawa, Canada, 1982, Washington, 1983. Researcher and presenter in field.
Petty officer second class United States Coast Guard, 1958-1960. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Mammalogists, Animal Behavior Society, Society for Marine Mammalogy, The Oceanography Society.
Children: Melissa Gentry O'Brien, Erin Childs, Alison Neville.