Richard Hansford Burroughs III

Background

III, Richard Hansford Burroughs was born on July 5, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Richard Hansford and Mary Drummond (Page) B.

Education

AB with honors, Princeton University, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975.

Career

Staff officer, National Academy Sciences-National Research Council, Washington, 1974-1977; senior fellow, Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1977-1979, 81; science adviser to director, Bureau Land Management, unites states department of Interior, Washington, 1979-1981; research scientist, John Gray Institute, Beaumont, Texas, 1982-1983; assistant professor, then associate professor department marine affairs, U. Rhode Island, Kingston, since 1983. Visiting associate professor school forestry and environmental studies Yale University, New Haven, 1990-1991, Adjunct Professor, 1991-1992. Member summer faculty College of Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1988-1990.

Achievements

• Richard Hansford Burroughs III has been listed as a noteworthy Oceanography educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors Save the Bay, Providence, 1988-1990. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, Geological Society American, The Coastal Society, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Nancy Rowe, March 31, 1984. Children: Nicholas Loring, Hannah Grinnell.

Father:

Richard Hansford B.

Mother:

Mary Drummond (Page) B.

Spouse:

Nancy Rowe

child:

Hannah Grinnell III

child:

Nicholas Loring III