Papers of George E. B. Morren, American anthropologist who was among the first to use remote sensing satellite technology for field research before GPS devices were available to consumers. He used their forerunners to investigate human and environmental change in Papua New Guinea, specifically the Telefomin district of the Sandaun province.

George Edward Bradshaw Morren was born in West Brighton, Staten Island in 1939. He graduated from Columbia University in 1960, earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology. After graduation, Morren served in the U.S. Navy until 1963 when he returned to Columbia for graduate school, earning a PhD in 1974. His thesis, "Settlement Strategies and Hunting in a New Guinea Society," was made possible by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and Graduate Fellowship awarded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Morren taught anthropology for several years, first as an assistant professor at State University of New York at Binghampton, then moving to Rocky Hill, New Jersey where he was professor of anthropology at Cook College (renamed as the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences), part of Rutgers University for over 40 years. At Rutgers, Dr. Morren helped to develop a new program in Human Ecology in 1973, held leadership positions as department chair and curriculum coordinator, and made groundbreaking contributions in the new academic fields of Ecological Anthropology and Human Ecology. In 1976 he co-authored a textbook Ecology, Energetics, and Human Variability: Elements of Anthropology with Michael Little, and continued to publish scholarly articles relating to his studies on the Miyanmin [Mianmin] people and ecology of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Morren was an early adopter of remote sensing satellite technology, Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) later renamed LANDSAT, a predecessor to GPS to investigate sociological and environmental changes in Papua New Guinea. Morren was granted awards for some of his research, including research funding from The National Science Foundation from 1991-1994. He retired from teaching in 2009.

10.2 Linear feet (26 archives boxes, 1 map case folder, 2 flat box folders, 2 tubes, and 4 films)

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