Daniel Archibald Livingstone

Background

Livingstone, Daniel Archibald was born on August 3, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Harrison Lincoln and Elizabeth Agnes (Matheson) Livingstone.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1948; Master of Science, Dalhousie U., Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1953.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow, Cambridge U., England, 1953-1954; postdoctoral fellow, Dalhousie U., Halifax, 1954-1955; assistant professor zoology, U. Maryland., College Park, 1955-1956; assistant professor zoology, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1956-1959; associate professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1959-1966; professor, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, since 1966; James B. Duke professor zoology, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, since 1980; professor geology, Duke U., Durham, since 1990; limnogist, United States Geological Survey, Washington, summers 1956-1958. Member of advisory panel Environmental Biology branch National Science Foundation, 1964-1967, Tundra Biome Project, 1974-1976, member human origins panel, 1978, member river-ocean interaction panel, 1978. Member United States National Committee for International Hydrological Decade, 1964.

Member of advisory council for systematic and environmental biology Foreign Currency program, Smithsonian Institution, 1977-1980. Member external review committee University of Minnesota Department Ecology and Behavioral Biology, 1979. Collaborator National Park Service unites states department Interior, 1974.

Consultant on geochemistry to A.D. Little Inc., 1972-1973, on study on mineral cycling in Volta Lake, Ghana, Smithsonian Institution, 1973, to South-East Consortium for International Development, Kakamega, Kenya, 1985. Convenor various workshop sessions.

Achievements

• Daniel Archibald Livingstone has been listed as a noteworthy Zoology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Late Quaternary Climatic Change in Africa, 1975, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Volume 6 : pages 249-280 with 3 figures.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Nova Scotian Institute Science, International Union for Quaternary Research (United States national committee 1970-1978, subordinate-commission for African stratigraphy 1973-1982), American Quaternary Association (county 1982, counselor 1971-1973, 81-), American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Ecological Society American (coun.1961-1966, ecology study committee 1964, chairman weather working group 1965-1966), American Society Limnology and Oceanography (General Electric Hutchinson medal 1989), North Carolina Academy Sciences, Freshwater Biological Association, United Kingdom Hydrobiol. Society East Africa, American Association Stratigraphic Palynologists, International Association for Fundamental and Applied Limnology (Kilham Memorial lecturer 1998), Association Pour l'Etude Taxonomique de la Flore d'Afrique Tropicale, Sigma Xi.

Interests

• Avocation: woodworking.

Connections

Married Bertha Griffin Ross, June 17, 1952 (divorced). Children: Laura Ross, Mary Lisa, JohnMalcolm, Christina Ann, Elizabeth. Married Patricia Greene Palmer, June 3, 1989.

Father:

Harrison Lincoln Livingstone

Mother:

Elizabeth Agnes (Matheson) Livingstone

Spouse:

Patricia Greene Palmer

Spouse:

Bertha Griffin Ross

child:

Laura Ross Livingstone

child:

Mary Lisa Livingstone

child:

JohnMalcolm Livingstone

child:

Christina Ann Livingstone

child:

Elizabeth Livingstone