词条 | Stephen C. Sillett |
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Early and personal lifeSillett was born March 19, 1968 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has a younger sister, Liana, and an older brother, Scott, who is also featured in The Wild Trees. Both Sillett brothers were inspired to pursue careers in science by their grandmother, Helen Poe Sillett, who was a bird enthusiast.[4] His wife, Marie E. Antoine, a fellow botanist, lectures at Humboldt State University and assists Sillett in his field research. They were married on December 8, 2001. EducationSillett studied biology as an undergraduate to pursue his interest in botany, later refocusing on tall trees and Lobaria, a type of nitrogen-fixing lichen associated with old-growth forests, in the Pacific Northwest. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1989 at the age of 21. He went on to receive a Master of Science in Botany from the University of Florida in 1991, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oregon State University in 1995. He began teaching at Humboldt State University in 1996, where he dedicates much of his time to field study of not only coast redwood but also giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), and the tallest trees of the Southern Hemisphere, Eucalyptus regnans and E. globulus. He currently teaches courses in General Botany, Lichens and Bryophytes, and Forest Canopy Ecology at Humboldt State University.[3] ResearchEarly researchSillett began climbing Douglas-fir trees during his undergraduate years at Reed College. While working on his Masters, he studied a cloud forest canopy in Costa Rica, focusing on bryophytes inhabiting the emergent crowns of strangler figs (Ficus tuerckheimii). His doctorate work focused on old-growth Douglas-fir forests in the Cascade Mountains of western Oregon. It was not until he began teaching at Humboldt State that he began climbing and studying redwood forests.[4] Later researchAfter moving to northwestern California, Sillett began studying old-growth redwood forests and the biodiversity found in their canopies. Additionally, Sillett studies how water is transported up the tree in an effort to understand the limits to tree height. One of his chief interests is in determining the maximum attainable heights of the 6 tallest tree species.[4] To reach the canopies, he uses an arrow to set a climbing line, then ascends using a modified arborist-style safety swing involving ropes, leather harnesses, and pulleys. Once in the canopy, Sillett and his research crew move about in a style known as skywalking using motion lanyards on a web of climbing ropes. To reach outlying branches, Sillett deploys a Tyrolean traverse between adjacent trees.[5] In addition to studying redwood canopies, Sillett studies other tall forests in the US, Canada, and Australia. He has climbed and measured the tallest of each of the six tallest trees species. Sillett and his team do not disclose precise locations of the world’s tallest trees. Sillett allows only students and research team members to climb with him, to maintain both the security of the trees and the safety of fellow researchers.[6] Major accomplishments
Awards and affiliationsIn addition to being a Grantee to the Save the Redwoods League, some of Sillett’s awards and acknowledgments include:
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/02/14/050214fa_fact_preston|title=Climbing the Redwoods|date=2005-02-15|accessdate=2007-07-31|publisher=The New Yorker|first=Richard|last=Preston|authorlink=Richard Preston}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sillett, Stephen C.}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/517581/|title=Ken Fisher Chair to Take Redwood Ecology to New Heights|publisher=Newswise Science News|date=2006-02-03|accessdate=2007-07-31}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/sillett.html|title=About Professor Stephen Sillett|accessdate=2007-07-31 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929110332/http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/sillett.html |archivedate = 2007-09-29}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|title=The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring|first=Richard|last=Preston|publisher=Random House|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4000-6489-2|authorlink=Richard Preston}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/canopyscience.html|title=Doing Canopy Science|accessdate=2007-07-31 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070714191316/http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/canopyscience.html |archivedate = 2007-07-14}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/archive/2006/09/07/TREE.TMP|title=Eureka: New tallest living thing discovered|accessdate=2007-07-31|date=2006-08-07|first=Martin|last=Glen|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/|title=Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology|accessdate=2007-07-31 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070709114228/http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/ |archivedate = 2007-07-09}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/fisher.html|title=About the Chair Founder, Kenneth L. Fisher|accessdate=2007-07-31 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929110313/http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/fisher.html |archivedate = 2007-09-29}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/09/061009fa_fact_preston|publisher=The New Yorker|date=2006-10-09|accessdate=2007-07-31|first=Richard|last=Preston|title=Tall for its age|authorlink=Richard Preston}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://discovermagazine.com/2002/may/feattree|title=The Life, Death, and Life of a Tree|publisher=Discover|date=2002-01-05|first=Jack|last=McClintock|accessdate=2007-07-31}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17623685.100-inside-the-hanging-gardens-of-arcata.html|title=Inside the hanging gardens of Arcata|date=2002-11-09|accessdate=2007-07-31|first=Anil|last=Ananthaswamy|publisher=New Scientist}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0602/feature5/gallery2.html|title=Treetop Scholars|work=National Geographic|accessdate=2007-07-31}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~aavp/scholarindex.htm|title=Humboldt State University - Academic Affairs|publisher=Humboldt State University|accessdate=2007-07-31}} 14. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/cv.html|title=Stephen C. Sillett's CV|accessdate=2007-07-31 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927020419/http://www.humboldt.edu/~sillett/cv.html |archivedate = 2007-09-27}} 12 : 1968 births|Living people|People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|American ecologists|Oregon State University alumni|University of Florida alumni|Reed College alumni|Humboldt State University faculty|Forestry academics|People from Arcata, California|American foresters|Forestry researchers |
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