Featured Memoir
Edward. L Miles by William C. Clark,
David L. Fluharty, Diana M. Liverman, and
John M. Wallace
“‘I spent a lot of time on, in and around the ocean, and I’m absolutely fascinated by it,” recalled Ed Miles in an interview for PNAS shortly after his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. That fascination would blossom into an outpouring of important research discoveries and institutional inventions during his more than forty years on the faculty of the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He sought to understand how cooperation for sustainable use of the oceans and other global commons could be enhanced. Unlike many in such fields, he combined research in the physical, social, and biological sciences with policy and international relations. He was a pioneer in the area of creating solutions for adaptation to global climate change. ”
About the Series
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagues familiar with the subject’s work write these memoirs and as such, the series provides a biographical history of science in America.
The Online Collection includes approximately 1,900 memoirs, including those of famed naturalist Louis Agassiz; Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Thomas Edison; Alexander Graham Bell; noted anthropologist Margaret Mead; and psychologist and philosopher John Dewey.
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