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Cloud, Preston was born on September 26, 1912 in West Upton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Preston E. and Pauline L. (Wiedemann) Cloud.
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Cloud, Preston was born on September 26, 1912 in West Upton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Preston E. and Pauline L. (Wiedemann) Cloud.
Bachelor of Science, George Washington University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1940.
Instructor, Missouri School Mines and Metallurgy, 1940-1941;
research fellow, Yale University, 1941-1942;
geologist, United States Geological Survey, 1942-1946, 48-61, 74-79;
chief paleontology and stratigraphy branch, United States Geological Survey, 1949-1959;
research geologist, 1959-1961, 74-79;
assistant professor, curator invertebrate paleontology, Harvard University, 1946-1948;
professor department geology and geophysics, University of Minnesota, 1961-1965;
chairman, University of Minnesota, 1961-1963;
professor geology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965-1968;
professor biogeology and environmental studies department geological science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968-1974;
professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974. Visiting professor University Texas, 1962, 78. Hassaram Rijhumal Luce professor cosmology Mount Holyoke College, 1979-1980.
Senior Queens fellow Baas-Becking Geobiology Laboratory, Canberra, Australia, 1981. Internat exchange scholar National Science and Engineering.Research Council Canada, 1982. Honorary visiting professor U. Ottawa (Ontario Canada), 1982.
National Sigma Xi lecturer, 1967. Emmons lecturer Colorado Science Society. Bownocker lecturer Ohio State University.
French lecturer Pomona College. Dumaresq-Smith lecturer Acadia College, Nova Scotia, Canada. A.L. DuToit Memorial lecturer Royal Society and Geological Society of South Africa.
Member governing board National Research Council, 1972-1975. Member Pacific Science Board, 1952-1956, 62-65. Delegate international science congresses.
Consultant to government, industry, foundations and agys.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (life, committee on meetings 1963-1965), American Academy Arts and Sciences (committee on membership 1978-1980, council 1980-1983). Member National Academy of Sciences (committee on nominations 1965, chair, 1969, member council 1972-1975, executive committee 1973-1975), American Philosophical Society (committee on membership since 1988), Polish Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), Geological Society of America (fellow, life, council 1972-1975), Paleontological Society of America, Paleontological Society India (honorary), Geological Society Belgium (honorary foreign correspondent), Paleontological Society Deutschland (honorary correspondent member), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon.
Married Janice Gibson, 1972. Children by previous marriage: Karen, Lisa, Kevin.