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Title: Joseph Connell faculty papers
Identifier/Call Number: UArch FacP 80.
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
44.47 Linear Feet;
(33 cartons, 6 document boxes, 2 half-size document boxes, and 1 lantern slide box)
Processed materials
Physical Description:
23.17 Linear Feet;
(6 cartons, 6 flat boxes, 2 oversized map folders, 1 pamphlet box, and glass vial specimens)
Approximated space of unprocessed materials, subject to change
Creator:
Connell, Joseph
Date (inclusive): 1914-2011
Abstract: Research data, field notes, writings, correspondence, and other related materials regarding Joseph Connell's ecological research.
The papers collected here mostly focuses on Connell's work with tropical rainforests, coral reefs, and marine intertidal communities.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is arranged partially by research topic, but mostly remains as it was received.
Joseph Hurd Connell FAA (5 October 1923 – 1 September 2020) was an American ecologist. In 1946, he completed his B.S. in meteorology
at the University of Chicago, followed by an M.A. in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1953, and a Ph.D.
at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom in 1956 under zoologist Charles Maurice Yonge. Postdoctoral research at Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, preceded his hiring in 1958 as a Professor of Biology by the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he remained for the rest of his career.
His early research examined interspecies competition amongst barnacles in Millport, Scotland, followed by a study of competition
and predation between snails, starfish, and barnacles in the San Juan Islands in Washington. In 1962 he received a Guggenheim
grant to support new research in Australia, investigating population dynamics, diversity, and species interactions of coral
on the Great Barrier Reef and amongst plants and trees in the rainforest in Queensland. Connell was best known for his work
studying tropical diversity, [and] much of his studies focused on determining community structure based on physical factors,
actions and interaction of species that are involved in competition, predation, and recruitment.
Sources:
- Wikipedia. Accessed 6 December 2022.
- Science Journal online. Accessed 6 December 2022.
- Independent! online. Accessed 21 November 2022.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Donation from wife, Margaret Connell, in 2022.
[Identification of Item], Joseph Connell faculty papers, UArch FacP 80. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This collection contains files generated by Jospeh Connell throughout his professional career as a ecologist, with the bulk
of the materials dating from 1965-2000. Materials include field work, photographs, reference materials, research drafts and
publications, and correspondence related to Connell's long-term professional research. In addition, the collection includes
Connell's class curriculum and compiled data, manuscript drafts under his review, and newspaper clippings on his academic
and professional achievements.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Marine biologists -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Archives
Rain forest ecology -- Research
Marine biology -- Research
Coral reef ecology -- Research -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Intertidal ecology -- Research -- California, Southern
Intertidal ecology -- Research -- Scotland
Intertidal ecology -- Research -- Washington (State) -- San Juan Islands
Oil spills -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel -- Photographs
Field notes
Manuscripts for publication
Course materials
Lantern slides
Documentary photographs
Aerial photographs
Correspondence
Connell, Joseph H. -- Archives