Forest Service Arrowrock Substatio

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A Life Well Planned
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation abandoned
site near Boise, Idaho-2005
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A Life Well Planned or Just Dumb Luck?
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation abandoned
site near Boise, Idaho-2005
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A Life Well Planned or Just Dumb Luck?
Born 28 May1936 Boise, Idaho
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation abandoned
site near Boise, Idaho-2005
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Idaho 1956
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Ogden, Utah - 1938-1943 Washington DC -
1943-1948 Tucson, Arizona - 1948-1954
Idaho 1958
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Climbing Baboquivaria the center of the world
for the Tohono O'odham (Papago)Nation in
southern Arizona 1950
Arizona
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Arizona OLIN
George and Irene Olins house, Tucson, Arizona -
1954
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - 1954
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Pearses in Egypt 1954
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Freshman year 1954-55 Fascinating year
but no biology
AUC
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University of Chicago 1955-1958 Great
school great biology But living there??!
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Stanford University and Hopkins Marine
Station Wonderful all around
1958-1964
Arthur C. Giese
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McMURDO
In action with the Warburg respirometer at
McMurdo Station, 1961
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Cape Evans in February 1961 Bruce Wing at the
oars
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McMURDO
McMurdo Sound freezing over - March 1961
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KATHY
John Kathy- newly weds -1963
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TE VEGA
Steve Arch and the Te Vega, Kieta, New Britain Te
Vega Cruise 6, Singapore to Guadalcanal
January-March 1965
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EGYPT
Nick Holland at Wadi el Dom sampling site, Gulf
of Suez, 1966
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WAR!!!
Six-day Arab-Israeli war in June 1967 changes
everything
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Research Fellow at Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory
of the California Institute of Technology with Whe
eler J. North The kelp forest guru 1968-1971
Wheelers field station at Papalote Bay, Baja
California
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Don Abbott
Todd Newberry
TODD AND UCSC
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Vol. I Acoelomate and Pseudocoelomate
Metazoans (1974) Vol. II Entoprocts and
Lesser Coelomates (1975) Vol. III Annelids and
Echiurans (1975) Vol. IV Molluscs Gastropods
and Cephalopods (1977) Vol. V
Molluscs Pelecypods and Lesser
Classes (1979) Vol. VI Echinoderms and
Lophophorates (1991) (Boxwood Press,
with V.B. Pearse, coed.) Vol. VII.
Non-malacostracan Arthropods Vol. VIII.
Malcostracan Arthropods Vol. IX General Aspects
Seeking Unity in Diversity (1987)
(Blackwell/Boxwood, with V.B.
Pearse, co-ed.) 53 chapters, 64 authors, 3
publishers.

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Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum daughter
Vicki Animals Without Backbones, 3rd
ed. 1987 Ralph Mildred Buchsbaum and John
Vicki Pearse Living
Invertebrates 1987 Vicki John Pearse and
Mildred and Ralph Buchsbaum

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Intertidal Ecology
Mill Creek, 1972 Julie Packard Bill Doyle Dane
Hardin
Carmel Point, 1996 Rani Gaddam Eric Danner
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Kelp Forest Ecology
KELP FOREST
Val Gerard Tuck Hines Chris Harrold Yusef
Fadallah Steve Rumrill Michelle Paddack
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Doug Eernisse Katie Beauchamp Karen Davis
Enrique Bay-Schmith Diana Custer Peter
Fong Betsy Steele
Photoperiodism at Long Marine Lab
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Sid Bosch at McMurdo
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Baldo Marinovic 1984
Jim McClintock 1984
Larry Basch 1989
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Other students who enriched my life PhD Frank
Anderson Jeff Barksdale Jeannie Bender
Chet Chaffee Kathy Frost
Stephanie Kaza Bill Kennedy
David Lindberg Lloyd Lowry
Damhnait McHugh Phil Murphy
Sam Singer Ken Vicknair MSc Carrie Adams
Danny Cortazzo Anthony Draeger
Shannon Lee Veronica Franklin
Sarah Gerken Lauri Holts
Kathy Langan Birgit Loeper
Sheila Plant Kris Walz
Miranda Sanders Genine Scelfo Tom
Schulz Betsy Steele Jim Thompson
Bibit Traut Doug Tupper Lani
Watson Mark Yellin And many, many
senior thesis students!
Damhnait McHugh
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Echinoderm course - Bamfield Marine Lab - 1987
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Madang, New Guinea - Aug 1988
Diadema setosum - my favorite sea urchin
Seto, Japan - Jun 1989
Apia, Western Samoa - Mar 1989
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Reading Sid Boschs thesis Christensen Research
Station Madang, New Guinea - 1988
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Echino-larval-feeding lab south McMurdo
Station 1990 Dan Gustafson Richard and Robin
Rivkin Vicki and John Pearse
Echino-larval-feeding lab north Long Marine
Lab 1991 John and Vicki Pearse Larry Basch
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Dawn Osborn
Christy Roe
Greg McBride
Long-term Monitor Program Experiential Training
for Students LiMPETS
http//limpets.noaa.gov
Natural Bridges - 2000
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SUSIE MORE ANTARCTIC-- THORSONS RULE
Susie Lockhart, the Polarstern, and brooding in
the Antarctic (Thorsons rule)
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Oscarella carmela The sponge closest to us?
Placozoa Trichoplax sp. The simplest animal
known?
Voigt, O., A.G. Collins, V.B. Pearse, J.S.
Pearse, H. Hadrys, and B. Schierwater. 2004.
Placozoa - no longer a phylum of one.
Current Biol. 14 R944-R945 Muricy, G. and J.S.
Pearse. 2004. A new species of Oscarella
(Demospongiae Plakinidae) from California.
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 55 600-614. Nichols,
S.A., W. Dirks, J.S. Pearse, and N. King.
Early evolution of animal cell signaling and
adhesion genes. PNAS in press.
Acoel worm Polychoerus carmelensis The simplest
bilaterans?
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A Life Well Planned or Just Dumb Luck?
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation site near
Boise, Idaho
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A Life Well Planned or Just Dumb Luck?
Or a dilettante?
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation site near
Boise, Idaho
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A Life Well Planned or Just Dumb Luck?
Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur,
1854
Forest Service Arrowrock Substation site near
Boise, Idaho
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AND SPECIAL THANKS TO JAN LEONARD!
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AND SPECIAL THANKS TO JAN LEONARD!
ALSO LARRY BASCH, ALLISON GONG, BALDO
MARINOVIC ROB FRANKS, AND BETSY STEELE
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FIONA
Fiona Spring Pearse with father (5 min. old)
23 April 2006
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Fiona Spring Pearse with grandparents 23 April
2006