Carl Barton Huffaker

Background

Huffaker, Carl Barton was born on September 30, 1914 in Monticello, Kentucky, United States. Son of DeWitt Talmadge and Elizabeth (Wray) Huffaker.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1938; Master of Sciences, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1939; postgraduate, North Carolina State University, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1942.

Career

Assistant entomologist, U. Delaware, Newark, 1941-1943; associate entomologist, Institute Inter-American Affairs, Colombia., S. American, 1943-1944; entomologist, Institute Inter-American Affairs, Haiti, Dominican Republic, 1944-1945; entomologist, professor, University of California-Berkeley, 1946-1985; professor emeritus, University of California-Berkeley, 1985-1995. Director International Center for Biological Control, University of California-Berkeley, Riverside,1970-1984. Member subcommittee United States National Committee of International Biological Program, 1966-1970, International Working Group for Biological Control.

Member ad hoc commission to organize Western Hemisphere Section of International Organisation for Biological Control. Director national integrated pest management project National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department Agriculture, 1972-1980. Board directors division environmental biology, International Union of Biological Sciences,1972-1976.

Member Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticides ad hoc commission on pest management, 1973-1975. Member study delegations to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1959, 74, Peoples Republic of China,1975, 82. Consultant United Nations Environment Program, and Development Program.

Member pesticide advising committee California Department Food and Agriculture. Resident-scholar Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1978.

Achievements

• Carl Barton Huffaker has been listed as a noteworthy Entomologist, researcher, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • New Technology of Pest Control (Environmental Science and Technology Series)

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member International Organization Biological Control (president 1972-1976, 78-83), Entomological Society of America (vice president 1980, president 1981, governing board 1980-1982, Woodworth award 1973), Society Population Ecology, Ecological Society of America, Entomological Society of Canada, Audubon Society, Smithsonian Association, National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.

Interests

• Avocations: Breeding and racing homing pigeons.

Connections

Married Saralyn Knight, June 16, 1936. Children— Ronald W., Harry K., Carolyn S. Huffaker Noack, Thomas K.

Father:

DeWitt Talmadge Huffaker

Father:

Huffaker Noack Huffaker

Mother:

Elizabeth (Wray) Huffaker

Spouse:

Saralyn Knight

child:

Ronald W. Huffaker

child:

Carolyn Son of Huffaker Noack Huffaker

child:

Thomas K. Huffaker

child:

Harry K. Huffaker