Background
Theodore J. Walker was born on January 7, 1915, in Great Falls, Montana, United States.
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Culbertson Hall, 100, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
Montana State University where Theodore Walker received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Gallery of Theodore Walker
660 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73019, United States
The University of Oklahoma where Theodore Walker received his Master of Science degree.
Gallery of Theodore Walker
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
The University of Wisconsin-Madison where Theodore Walker received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Culbertson Hall, 100, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
Montana State University where Theodore Walker received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
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660 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73019, United States
The University of Oklahoma where Theodore Walker received his Master of Science degree.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
The University of Wisconsin-Madison where Theodore Walker received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale
(Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gr...)
Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale provides a brief introduction to one of nature's most interesting creations, the whale. The principal star of the handbook is the California gray whale which in recent years has become a major tourist attraction in southern California. Notwithstanding the extreme interest, no concise interpretation of the migration has been prepared. Although there is a tremendous number of technical and popular writings about whales, there is still a great mystery about them. Whales carry on practically their entire lives below the surface of the sea out of reach of man, so that most of our knowledge has been pieced together from the study of the bodies of slaughtered whales. The literature abounds in partial truths, misinterpretations, and technicalities which confuse even the specialists.
https://www.amazon.com/Whale-Primer-Special-Attention-California-ebook/dp/B07MX79K3K
1962
Red Salmon, Brown Bear: The Story of an Alaskan Lake, Based on the Experiences of Dr. Theodore J. Walker
https://www.amazon.com/Red-salmon-brown-bear-experiences/dp/B0006CKJ76
1971
Theodore J. Walker
Edit ProfileEducation
Theodore Walker received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Montana State University in 1938. After that, he obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1940. After serving in the United States Navy as a lieutenant during World War II, he got a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1947.
Career
Theodore Walker devoted many years of his career to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography where he was a research oceanographer from 1948 to 1971. He was also a naturalist for the United States Park Service for many years. He resigned from Scripps in order to live for seven months on Baranof Island in Alaska.
On Baranof Island, he conducted research that was eventually published in his Red Salmon, Brown Bear: The Story of an Alaskan Lake, Based on the Experiences of Dr. Theodore J. Walker (1971), which was later adapted as the documentary Alaska Wilderness Lake. Walker, who discovered that whales feed on plankton during their migrations, was also the author of Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale (1962, revised edition 1979), and of film scripts and article contributions to National Geographic magazine. He also served as a consultant for the Jacque Cousteau film Desert Whale.
Achievements
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Theorode Walker was a noted oceanographer and marine biologist who was best known for his research on whales, though he was interested in all types of wildlife. A film made based on his book, Red Salmon, Brown Bear: The Story of an Alaskan Lake, Based on the Experiences of Dr. Theodore J. Walker, was nominated for the Oscar.
Works
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Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale
(Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gr...)
1962 - Red Salmon, Brown Bear: The Story of an Alaskan Lake, Based on the Experiences of Dr. Theodore J. Walker 1971
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Whale Primer: With Special Attention to the California Gray Whale
Personality
Physical Characteristics: The cause of Walker's death was complications from a stroke.
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Born
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Nationality
United States
Education
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1938
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1947
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1938 - 1940
Career
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1948 - 1971