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Nancy Guttmann Slack

January 07, 2023

Nancy Guttmann Slack (born 1930 in New York City) is an American plant ecologist, bryologist, and historian of science. She was the president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society from 2005 to 2007.

Biography

In December 1951 Nancy Guttmann married Glen A. Slack.[1] At Cornell University she graduated in June 1952 with B.Sc. in agriculture[2] and in 1954 with M.Sc.[3] Her master's thesis is entitled Variation of the Small Cranberries in Eastern North America.[4] In the late 1950s and the decade of the 1960s she raised three children and helped her husband's career.[5] In 1971 she received her Ph.D. in ecology from the University at Albany, SUNY. Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled Species diversity and community structure in bryophytes,[6] won the Paul C. Lemon Award.[7] After receiving her Ph.D. she became an assistant professor of biology at Russell Sage College and retired there in 2002 as professor emerita.[8] After formal retirement from Russell Sage College, she engaged in “writing books and magazine articles, teaching ecology, natural history, and botany, birding, singing in an oratorio society, reading, and doing scientific travel with her husband.”[2] She has done research on bryophytes, ecosystems of the U.S. Northeast, the ecology of peatlands, ecological niche theory, and the history of ecology and botany.

In 2012 Nancy G. Slack was the project director for an investigation resulting in the report Alpine Snowbed communities of Mt. Washington and the monitoring of Populations of Rare Bryophytes and Lichens in relation to Future Climate Change Project.[9] She received the 2014 Guy Waterman Alpine Steward Award for her lifetime achievement in alpine ecology and conservation work for mountain wilderness in the American Northeast.[10]

Her husband, an outstanding physicist and inventor, died in 2019, leaving his widow, three children, and six grandchildren.[5] The Russell Sage College sponsors the Glen and Nancy Slack Endowed Award in the Sciences Fund for outstanding juniors or seniors in "biology, pre-medicine or biochemistry."[8]

Selected publications

Articles

  • Vitt, Dale H.; Slack, Nancy G. (1975). "An analysis of the vegetation of Sphagnum-dominated kettle-hole bogs in relation to environmental gradients". Canadian Journal of Botany. 53 (4): 332–359. doi:10.1139/b75-042.
  • Horton, Diana G.; Vitt, Dale H.; Slack, Nancy G. (1979). "Habitats of circumboreal–subarctic sphagna: I. A quantitative analysis and review of species in the Caribou Mountains, northern Alberta". Canadian Journal of Botany. 57 (20): 2283–2317. doi:10.1139/b79-275.
  • Vitt, Dale H.; Slack, Nancy G. (1984). "Niche diversification of Sphagnum relative to environmental factors in northern Minnesota peatlands". Canadian Journal of Botany. 62 (7): 1409–1430. doi:10.1139/b84-192.
  • Slack, Nancy G.; Glime, Janice M. (1985). "Niche Relationships of Mountain Stream Bryophytes". The Bryologist. 88 (1): 7–18. doi:10.2307/3242643. JSTOR 3242643.
  • Abir-Am, Pnina G.; Outram, Dorinda, eds. (1987). "Chapter 5. Nineteenth-Century American Women Botanists: Wives, Widows, and Work by Nancy G. Slack". Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979. pp. 77–103. ISBN 9780813512563.
  • Slack, Nancy G. (1990). "Bryophytes and ecological niche theory". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 104 (1–3): 187–213. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1990.tb02218.x.
  • Schmitt, Claire K.; Slack, Nancy G. (1990). "Host Specificity of Epiphytic Lichens and Bryophytes: A Comparison of the Adirondack Mountains (New York) and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains (North Carolina)". The Bryologist. 93 (3): 257–274. doi:10.2307/3243509. JSTOR 3243509.
  • Slack, Nancy G.; Vitt, Dale H.; Horton, Diana G. (1980). "Vegetation gradients of minerotrophically rich fens in western Alberta". Canadian Journal of Botany. 58 (3): 330–350. doi:10.1139/b80-034.
  • Vitt, Dale H.; Horton, Diana G.; Slack, Nancy G.; Malmer, Nils (1990). "Sphagnum-dominated peatlands of the hyperoceanic British Columbia coast: Patterns in surface water chemistry and vegetation". Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 20 (6): 696–711. doi:10.1139/x90-093.
  • Slack, Nancy G. (1992). "Rare and endangered bryophytes in New York State and Eastern United States: Current status and preservation strategies". Biological Conservation. 59 (2–3): 233–241. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(92)90590-j.
  • Slack, Nancy G.; Hallingbäck, Tomas (1992). "Community and species responses to environmental gradients in suboceanic mires of the west Swedish coast". Annales Botanici Fennici. 29 (4): 269–293. JSTOR 23726236. 1992
  • Slobodkin, Lawrence B.; Slack, Nancy G. (1999). "George Evelyn Hutchinson: 20th-century ecologist". Endeavour. 23: 24–30. doi:10.1016/S0160-9327(99)01182-5.
  • Cleavitt, Natalie L.; Williams, Susan A.; Slack, Nancy G. (2009). "Relationship of Bryophyte Occurrence to Rock Type in Upstate New York and Coastal Maine". Northeastern Naturalist. 16: 67–84. doi:10.1656/045.016.0106. S2CID 86032271.
  • Capers, Robert S.; Slack, Nancy G. (2016). "A Baseline Study of Alpine Snowbed and Rill Communities on Mount Washington, NH". Rhodora. 118: 345–381. doi:10.3119/16-07 – via BioOne.

Books1

  • Slack, Nancy G.; Bell, Allison Williams (1995). AMC Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits. Appalachian Mountain Club Books. ISBN 978-1-878239-38-9; pbk, 96 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
    • Slack, Nancy G.; Bell, Allison W. (2006). AMC Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-1929173891; pbk, 104 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Pycior, Helena Mary; Slack, Nancy G.; Abir-Am, Pnina G., eds. (1996). Creative couples in the sciences. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813521886.[11]
  • Slack, Nancy G.; Bell, Allison Williams (2006). Adirondack Alpine Summits: An Ecological Field Guide. Adirondack Mountain Club. ISBN 9781931951180; pbk{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Slack, Nancy G. (1 January 2010). G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16138-0.[12][13]
  • Tuba, Zoltán; Slack, Nancy G.; Stark, Lloyd R., eds. (6 January 2011). Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change. ISBN 9781139493208.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Nancy Gutmann's Troth; Marriage to Glen A. Slack Will Take Place in December". The New York Times. October 25, 1951.
  2. ^ a b "Bachelors of Science in Agriculture". The Cornell Daily Sun. Vol. 68, no. 181. 6 June 1952.
  3. ^ "Class of '52". Cornell Alumni Magazine, March/April 2011. p. 61.
  4. ^ Slack, Nancy Guttmann (1954). Variation of the Small Cranberries in Eastern North America. Cornell University.
  5. ^ a b "Glen Slack 1928–2019". glenvillefuneralhome.com.
  6. ^ Slack, Nancy G. (1971). "Soecies diversity and community structures in bryophytes". Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany — Department of Biological Sciences.
  7. ^ "People and Places". BioScience. 23 (9): 546–548. 1973. doi:10.2307/1296485. ISSN 0006-3568. JSTOR 1296485.
  8. ^ a b "Glen and Nancy Slack Endowed Award in the Sciences Fund". Russell Sage College.
  9. ^ Slack, Nancy G.; Capers, Robert; Duckett, Jeffrey; Bell, Allison; Storms, Kate; Greene, Evelyn; Armstrong, Kathie (December 2012). "Alpine Snowbed communities of Mt. Washington and the monitoring of Populations of Rare Bryophytes and Lichens in relation to Future Climate Change Project" (PDF).
  10. ^ "2014 Alpine Steward Award Winner: Dr. Nancy Slack". The Waterman Fund.
  11. ^ Sime, Ruth Lewin (July 19, 1996), Science, New Series, 273 (5273): 316, doi:10.1126/science.273.5273.316, JSTOR 2889732{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. ^ Kingsland, Sharon (2012). "Review of G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology. By Nancy G. Slack; Foreword by, Edward O. Wilson". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 87 (1): 47–48. doi:10.1086/663892. ISSN 0033-5770.
  13. ^ Tjossem, Sara (2012). "Review of G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology by Nancy G. Slack". Isis. 103 (1): 213–214. doi:10.1086/666451. ISSN 0021-1753.
  14. ^ Shaw, Jonathan (2012). "Review of Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change edited by Zoltán Tuba, Nancy G. Slack, and Lloyd R. Stark". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 87 (3): 252. doi:10.1086/666782. ISSN 0033-5770.

External links

  • "Impact Show 306 Barbara Brabetz and Dr. Nancy G. Slack". YouTube. mrstprctors. June 28, 2012.

January 07, 2023
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Nancy Guttmann Slack born 1930 in New York City is an American plant ecologist bryologist and historian of science She was the president of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society from 2005 to 2007 Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected publications 2 1 Articles 2 2 Books1 3 References 4 External linksBiography EditIn December 1951 Nancy Guttmann married Glen A Slack 1 At Cornell University she graduated in June 1952 with B Sc in agriculture 2 and in 1954 with M Sc 3 Her master s thesis is entitled Variation of the Small Cranberries in Eastern North America 4 In the late 1950s and the decade of the 1960s she raised three children and helped her husband s career 5 In 1971 she received her Ph D in ecology from the University at Albany SUNY Her Ph D thesis entitled Species diversity and community structure in bryophytes 6 won the Paul C Lemon Award 7 After receiving her Ph D she became an assistant professor of biology at Russell Sage College and retired there in 2002 as professor emerita 8 After formal retirement from Russell Sage College she engaged in writing books and magazine articles teaching ecology natural history and botany birding singing in an oratorio society reading and doing scientific travel with her husband 2 She has done research on bryophytes ecosystems of the U S Northeast the ecology of peatlands ecological niche theory and the history of ecology and botany In 2012 Nancy G Slack was the project director for an investigation resulting in the report Alpine Snowbed communities of Mt Washington and the monitoring of Populations of Rare Bryophytes and Lichens in relation to Future Climate Change Project 9 She received the 2014 Guy Waterman Alpine Steward Award for her lifetime achievement in alpine ecology and conservation work for mountain wilderness in the American Northeast 10 Her husband an outstanding physicist and inventor died in 2019 leaving his widow three children and six grandchildren 5 The Russell Sage College sponsors the Glen and Nancy Slack Endowed Award in the Sciences Fund for outstanding juniors or seniors in biology pre medicine or biochemistry 8 Selected publications EditArticles Edit Vitt Dale H Slack Nancy G 1975 An analysis of the vegetation of Sphagnum dominated kettle hole bogs in relation to environmental gradients Canadian Journal of Botany 53 4 332 359 doi 10 1139 b75 042 Horton Diana G Vitt Dale H Slack Nancy G 1979 Habitats of circumboreal subarctic sphagna I A quantitative analysis and review of species in the Caribou Mountains northern Alberta Canadian Journal of Botany 57 20 2283 2317 doi 10 1139 b79 275 Vitt Dale H Slack Nancy G 1984 Niche diversification of Sphagnum relative to environmental factors in northern Minnesota peatlands Canadian Journal of Botany 62 7 1409 1430 doi 10 1139 b84 192 Slack Nancy G Glime Janice M 1985 Niche Relationships of Mountain Stream Bryophytes The Bryologist 88 1 7 18 doi 10 2307 3242643 JSTOR 3242643 Abir Am Pnina G Outram Dorinda eds 1987 Chapter 5 Nineteenth Century American Women Botanists Wives Widows and Work by Nancy G Slack Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives Women in Science 1789 1979 pp 77 103 ISBN 9780813512563 Slack Nancy G 1990 Bryophytes and ecological niche theory Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 104 1 3 187 213 doi 10 1111 j 1095 8339 1990 tb02218 x Schmitt Claire K Slack Nancy G 1990 Host Specificity of Epiphytic Lichens and Bryophytes A Comparison of the Adirondack Mountains New York and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains North Carolina The Bryologist 93 3 257 274 doi 10 2307 3243509 JSTOR 3243509 Slack Nancy G Vitt Dale H Horton Diana G 1980 Vegetation gradients of minerotrophically rich fens in western Alberta Canadian Journal of Botany 58 3 330 350 doi 10 1139 b80 034 Vitt Dale H Horton Diana G Slack Nancy G Malmer Nils 1990 Sphagnum dominated peatlands of the hyperoceanic British Columbia coast Patterns in surface water chemistry and vegetation Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20 6 696 711 doi 10 1139 x90 093 Slack Nancy G 1992 Rare and endangered bryophytes in New York State and Eastern United States Current status and preservation strategies Biological Conservation 59 2 3 233 241 doi 10 1016 0006 3207 92 90590 j Slack Nancy G Hallingback Tomas 1992 Community and species responses to environmental gradients in suboceanic mires of the west Swedish coast Annales Botanici Fennici 29 4 269 293 JSTOR 23726236 1992 Slobodkin Lawrence B Slack Nancy G 1999 George Evelyn Hutchinson 20th century ecologist Endeavour 23 24 30 doi 10 1016 S0160 9327 99 01182 5 Cleavitt Natalie L Williams Susan A Slack Nancy G 2009 Relationship of Bryophyte Occurrence to Rock Type in Upstate New York and Coastal Maine Northeastern Naturalist 16 67 84 doi 10 1656 045 016 0106 S2CID 86032271 Capers Robert S Slack Nancy G 2016 A Baseline Study of Alpine Snowbed and Rill Communities on Mount Washington NH Rhodora 118 345 381 doi 10 3119 16 07 via BioOne Books1 Edit Slack Nancy G Bell Allison Williams 1995 AMC Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits Appalachian Mountain Club Books ISBN 978 1 878239 38 9 pbk 96 pages a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Slack Nancy G Bell Allison W 2006 AMC Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits 2nd ed ISBN 978 1929173891 pbk 104 pages a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Pycior Helena Mary Slack Nancy G Abir Am Pnina G eds 1996 Creative couples in the sciences Rutgers University Press ISBN 978 0813521886 11 Slack Nancy G Bell Allison Williams 2006 Adirondack Alpine Summits An Ecological Field Guide Adirondack Mountain Club ISBN 9781931951180 pbk a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Slack Nancy G 1 January 2010 G Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 16138 0 12 13 Tuba Zoltan Slack Nancy G Stark Lloyd R eds 6 January 2011 Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change ISBN 9781139493208 14 References Edit Nancy Gutmann s Troth Marriage to Glen A Slack Will Take Place in December The New York Times October 25 1951 a b Bachelors of Science in Agriculture The Cornell Daily Sun Vol 68 no 181 6 June 1952 Class of 52 Cornell Alumni Magazine March April 2011 p 61 Slack Nancy Guttmann 1954 Variation of the Small Cranberries in Eastern North America Cornell University a b Glen Slack 1928 2019 glenvillefuneralhome com Slack Nancy G 1971 Soecies diversity and community structures in bryophytes Ph D Dissertation State University of New York at Albany Department of Biological Sciences People and Places BioScience 23 9 546 548 1973 doi 10 2307 1296485 ISSN 0006 3568 JSTOR 1296485 a b Glen and Nancy Slack Endowed Award in the Sciences Fund Russell Sage College Slack Nancy G Capers Robert Duckett Jeffrey Bell Allison Storms Kate Greene Evelyn Armstrong Kathie December 2012 Alpine Snowbed communities of Mt Washington and the monitoring of Populations of Rare Bryophytes and Lichens in relation to Future Climate Change Project PDF 2014 Alpine Steward Award Winner Dr Nancy Slack The Waterman Fund Sime Ruth Lewin July 19 1996 Science New Series 273 5273 316 doi 10 1126 science 273 5273 316 JSTOR 2889732 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint untitled periodical link Kingsland Sharon 2012 Review of G Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology By Nancy G Slack Foreword by Edward O Wilson The Quarterly Review of Biology 87 1 47 48 doi 10 1086 663892 ISSN 0033 5770 Tjossem Sara 2012 Review of G Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology by Nancy G Slack Isis 103 1 213 214 doi 10 1086 666451 ISSN 0021 1753 Shaw Jonathan 2012 Review of Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change edited by Zoltan Tuba Nancy G Slack and Lloyd R Stark The Quarterly Review of Biology 87 3 252 doi 10 1086 666782 ISSN 0033 5770 External links Edit Impact Show 306 Barbara Brabetz and Dr Nancy G Slack YouTube mrstprctors June 28 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nancy Guttmann Slack amp oldid 1128962687, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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