Background
Stoermer, Eugene Filmore was born on March 7, 1934 in Webb, Iowa, United States. Son of Edward Filmore and Agnes Elizabeth (Ekstrand) Stoermer.
Stoermer, Eugene Filmore was born on March 7, 1934 in Webb, Iowa, United States. Son of Edward Filmore and Agnes Elizabeth (Ekstrand) Stoermer.
His Bachelor of Science degree was obtained in 1958 and his Doctor of Science in 1963, both from Iowa State University.
He was a professor of biology at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. His doctoral thesis was "Post-pleistocene diatoms from Lake West Okoboji, Iowa" Stoermer originally coined and used the term Anthropocene from the early 1980s to refer to the impact and evidence for the impact of human activities on the planet earth. The word was not used in general culture until it was popularized in 2000 by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and others who regard the influence of human behavior on Earth"s atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch.
He is the co-author with J. P. Smol of The Diatoms Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences.
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1999.; According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1262 libraries In 2009, he received the honor of a festschrift, Diatom taxonomy, ultrastructure, and ecology: modern methods and timeless questions: a tribute to Stoermer.
Member Phycological Society of America (president 1988-1989), International Association for Diatom Research (president 1992-1994).
Married Barbara Purves Ryder, August 13, 1960. Children: Eric Filmore, Karla Jean, Peter Emil.