Background
Chapman, Russell Leonard was born on May 30, 1946 in Brooklyn. Son of Russell Hood and Helen Chapman.
Chapman, Russell Leonard was born on May 30, 1946 in Brooklyn. Son of Russell Hood and Helen Chapman.
Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1968; Master of Science, University of California, Davis, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, 1973.
National Science Foundation graduate fellow department botany, University of California, Davis, 1971-1973;
assistant professor department botany and plant biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1973-1977;
associate professor department botany, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1977-1983;
professor department botany, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, since 1983;
associate dean College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1979-1983;
associate dean College of Basic Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1983-1984;
department chairman botany, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1988-1994;
associate vice chancellor, Office of Research and Economics Development, since 1994;
interim executive director, Center for Coastal, Energy and Environmental Resources, since 1995. Member editorial board: Journal of Phycology, Algologia, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Associate editor American Journal of Botany, since 1995.
Author book chapters in field. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Board of directors Baton Rouge Earth Day, Inc., 1990-1992. Member Foundation for Hist.La., Baton Rouge, since 1973. Fellow Linnaen Society London.
Member Phycol. Society American (secretary, vice president, president 1985-1990, board of trustees since 1994), Botanical Society American (chairman phycol. sect.1983-1985), British Phycol. Society, International Phycol. Society, International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Willie Hennig Society, Louisiana Society Electron Microscopy (treasurer, president 1976-1980), Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi.
Married Melanie Anne Chapman, June 28, 1969;children: Christopher John, Timothy Sean.
