Background
Tarzwell, Clarence Matthew was born on September 29, 1907 in Deckerville, Michigan, United States. Son of Matthew and Jessie J. (Wilson) Tarzwell.
Tarzwell, Clarence Matthew was born on September 29, 1907 in Deckerville, Michigan, United States. Son of Matthew and Jessie J. (Wilson) Tarzwell.
Student, Eastern Michigan U., 1925-1929; Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1930; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1932; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1936; Science D. (honorary), Baldwin Wallace College, 1967.
Institute Fisheries Research Michigan Department Conservation research fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1930-1933;
doctorate problem trout steam improvement supervisor, Michigan Emergency Conservation Work Civilian Conservation Corps Stream Improvement, Lansing, 1933-1934;
assistant aquatic biologist, E. Coastal and Intermountain Region, United States Fish and Wildlife Superior vena cava syndrome, Stream Improvement, Salt Lake City, 1934;
assistant range examiner Region 3, United States Forest Superior vena cava syndrome, Lake and Stream Improvement, Albuquerque, 1935-1938;
associate biologist, chief field station, Tennessee Valley Authority, Decatur, Alabama, 1938-1943;
chief biology section, United States Public Health Service, Savannah, Georgia, 1944-1948;
science director, chief aquatic biology section, Resident Advisor Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, 1948-1965;
founding director, National Marine Water Quality Laboratory, West Kingston, Rhode Island, 1965-1972;
founding director, National Fresh Water Quality Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota, 1964-1967;
senior research adviser, Environmental Protection Agency, National Environmental Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon, 1972-1975;
Adjunct Professor, College Resource Development, U. Rhode Island, Kingston, 1966-1975;
visiting professor, College Resource Development, U. Rhode Island, 1976-1979. Member aquatic life advising committee Ohio River Valley Sanitary Commission, 1952-1968, National Academy Science-National Research Council Committee on Pest Control-Wildlife Relationships (subcommittee on research), 1960-1963. Member expert advisory panel environmental health World Health Organization, Geneva, 1962-1964.
Member panel fisheries experts Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations), United Nations, 1962-1963. Mem.pesticide committee International Association Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners, 1960-1961. American delegate 1st and 2d international meetings science research into water pollution Organization of European Cooperation and Development, Paris, 1961, 62, chairman international commission on long-term effects toxicants on aquatic life, 1962-1965.
Member of advisory committee control stream temperatures Pennsylvania San Water Board, 1959-1962. Advising committee water quality criteria project California Water Pollution Control Board, 1961-1963. Chairman secretary interior's National Technology Advisory Committee on Water Quality Requirements for Fish, Other Aquatic Life and Wildlife, 1967-1968.
Chairman, member waterpollution committee Water Pollution Control Federation, 1955-1975. Chairman of Commission for development standard methods for bioassays, 1958-1975, committee for methods ofsampling and analysis, 1965-1974. Member North America Game policy committee, 1971-1973.
Member commission on power plant siting National Academy Engineering-National Academy Sciences, 1971-1972. Pollution abatement committee American Fisheries Society, 1952-1973. Member regional task force, southeastern New England water and related land resources study New England River Basins Committee, 1972-1975.
Consultant Kuwait Institute Science Research, 1975. Member Rhode Island State Wide Planning Council, 1978-1982, Ecology Action for Rhode Island. Advisor Save the Bay, Bottle Bill Coalition.
Member American Fisheries Society (honorary life., chairman pollution committee 1950-1951, 54-61, member 1962-1973, AFS award of excellence 1974), American Society Limnology and Oceanography (national advisory committee 1950-1951, member-at-large 1959, board directors 1960-1962), Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, Wildlife Society (honorary life), American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (life), American Institute Biological Sciences, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association (president Cincinnati branch 1955-1956), Stoic (president 1928), North America Lake Management Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma, Pi Kappa Delta.
Married Vera V. Paiter, September 3, 1938. Children: Diane Kay Tarzwell Siegmund, Barbara Ann Tarzwell Fahey, Thomas Neil.