Background
Ronald Keith O'Dor was born on September 20, 1944, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He is the son of Claude Marvin and Opal LaMoyne (Sears) Mathes.
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El Camino College
Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California, Berkeley
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University of British Columbia
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK
Cambridge University
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Dalhousie University
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The Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, also known as the Laboratoire Arago, where O'Dor worked as a summer scientist from 1979 to 1985.
Ronald Keith O'Dor was born on September 20, 1944, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He is the son of Claude Marvin and Opal LaMoyne (Sears) Mathes.
O'Dor graduated from El Camino College with an associate degree in 1966. He then graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with bachelor's degree in 1967 and received his doctorate from the University of British Columbia in 1971.
O'Dor started his career as a postdoctoral fellow in zoology at Cambridge University in 1971. In 1973, he went to Dalhousie University, where he first began as an assistant professor, then became an associate professor, and in 1983, as a professor of biology, the position he still holds. O'Dor was also a director of Aquatron Laboratory from 1986 to 1993 and a summer scientist at Laboratoire Arago from 1979 to 1985.
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2013O'Dor is a member of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, Canadian Society of Zoologists, Canadian Physiological Society, American Society of Zoologists, American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, Nova Scotia Institute of Science and Phi Beta Kappa.
O'Dor is married to Janet Ruth Spiller. The couple has 2 children: Matthew Arnold and Stephen Roderick.