This article is about the biologist. For the U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, see Joseph Grinnell (politician).
Joseph Grinnell
Joseph Grinnell in 1901
Born
(1877-02-27)February 27, 1877
Indian Territory near Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Died
May 29, 1939(1939-05-29) (aged 62)
Berkeley, California, US
Education
Pasadena HS, Throop Polytechnic, Stanford
Alma mater
Throop Polytechnic Institute (BS)
Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Known for
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Director 1908–1939
Editor of The Condor 1906–1939
Spouse
Hilda Wood Grinnell
Children
Willard, Stuart, Richard and Mary Elizabeth
Scientific career
Fields
Zoology
Institutions
Throop Polytechnic Institute
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis
An account of the mammals and birds of the lower Colorado Valley, with especial reference to the distributional problems presented(1913)
Doctoral advisor
Charles Henry Gilbert
Doctoral students
Ian McTaggart-Cowan, E. Raymond Hall, Robert T. Orr
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Joseph Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known as the Grinnell System.[1] He served as the first director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley from the museum's inception in 1908 until his death.[2]
He edited The Condor, a publication of the Cooper Ornithological Club, from 1906 to 1939, and authored many articles for scientific journals and ornithological magazines. He wrote several books, among them The Distribution of the Birds of California and Animal Life in the Yosemite.[3] He also developed and popularized the concept of the niche.[4]
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^Joseph Grinnell (1917). "The niche-relationships of the California Thrasher" (PDF). The Auk. 34 (4): 427–433. doi:10.2307/4072271. JSTOR 4072271. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
JosephGrinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California...
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nest. The term was coined by the naturalist Roswell Hill Johnson but JosephGrinnell was probably the first to use it in a research program in 1917, in...
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was initially described during the Grinnell Survey of California, by an undergraduate student of JosephGrinnell named Charles Camp. Yosemite toads are...
Zoology. Grinnell, the male, was named after JosephGrinnell, the first director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. On October 31, 2021, Grinnell was injured...
Family: Mustelidae Genus: Martes Species: M. caurina Subspecies: M. c. humboldtensis Trinomial name Martes caurina humboldtensis Grinnell and Dixon, 1926...
making large collections on the trip and also getting acquainted with JosephGrinnell. This was followed by another expedition to Chile in 1902. He deposited...
St. Joseph. Grinnell, George Bird (1985): The Passing of the Great West. Selected Papers of George Bird Grinnell. New York. Medicine Crow, joseph (1939):...
cultivating an interest in natural history. In 1907, Alexander met JosephGrinnell, a young scientist from Stanford who had already begun to make a name...
scientific literature in 1956, the idea has earlier roots. For example, JosephGrinnell, in the classic paper that set forth the concept of the ecological...
Grinnell Willis (1848-1930) was a textile merchant and philanthropist, and the son of noted poet Nathaniel Parker Willis. Willis founded and ran Grinnell...
system began with UC Berkeley zoology professor JosephGrinnell. In 1937, near the end of his career, Grinnell began to work on a proposal to establish UC's...
re-introductions in other parts of the swan's historic range. In 1918 JosephGrinnell wrote that trumpeter swans once bred in North America from northwestern...
new ser., no. 25. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1995. JosephGrinnell (1900). Birds of the Kotzebue sound region, Alaska. Cooper Ornithological...
coexisting do have different niches'). Based on field observations, JosephGrinnell formulated the principle of competitive exclusion in 1904: "Two species...
Swainson's hawk, white tailed kite, and the osprey. In 1927, zoologist JosephGrinnell wrote that osprey were only rare visitors to the San Francisco Bay...
Dwight Perry, in a mill. However, one prominent investor, Congressman JosephGrinnell stipulated that the mill be located in his home city, New Bedford....
and helped her in her landmark study on song sparrows. Nice wrote to JosephGrinnell in 1932, trying to get foreign literature reviewed in the Condor: "Too...
for New York. He, along with JosephGrinnell, controlled a potent shipping firm named Fish & Grinnell – later Grinnell, Minturn & Company – which had...
millions of waterfowl each year. During a visit to Owens Lake in 1917 JosephGrinnell from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley reported "Great numbers...
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