Joel Hedgpeth

Joel W. Hedgpeth (September 29 1911 - July 28 2006) was a marine biologist, environmentalist and author. He was an expert on the marine arthropods known as sea spiders (Pycnogonida), and on the seashore plant and animal life of southern California. He was a spokesperson for care for the floral and faunal diversity of the California coastline.

Early life

Hedgpeth was born on September 29 1911 in Oakland, California. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/science/12hedgpeth.html?ex=1313035200&en=d8ae82c493a23e14&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Joel Hedgpeth, Marine Biologist and Advocate of Sea Life, Dies at 94] , "New York Times", August 12, 2006, p. B16. Obituary by Jeremy Pearce.] He married Florence Warrens in 1944, and the couple would have two children. He obtained his PhD (on the distribution and ecology of invertebrates along the Texas and Louisiana coasts) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

Career

His publications included "Introduction to Seashore Life of the San Francisco Bay Region" (1962). His teaching posts included the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego. He was also director of the Pacific Marine Station, a research facility at Dillon Beach, California, from 1957 to 1965. He was director of the Yaquina Biological Laboratories of the Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon, from 1965 to 1973. He retired as Professor of Oceanography in September, 1973. He and his wife moved to Santa Rosa, California during retirement. He died July 28 2006 in Hillsboro, Oregon.

The nudibranch "Polycera hedgpethi" [http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk459.htm] was named in his honor by Ernst Marcus, a marine biologist who taught at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

Publications

*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. "Introduction to seashore life of the San Francisco Bay region and the coast of northern California." Illustrated by the author and Lynn Rudy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1962. 136 p. illus. 19 cm.
*"The Outer shores" / edited by Joel W. Hedgpeth. Eureka, Calif. : Mad River Press, c1978- v. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-916422-13-5
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. "Animal diversity: organisms" [by] Joel W. Hedgpeth. [New York] McGraw-Hill [1974] 31 p. illus. 28 cm. ISBN 0-07-005345-6
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. "Animal structure and function" [by] Joel W. Hedgpeth. [New York] McGraw-Hill [1974] 32 p. illus. 28 cm. ISBN 0-07-005343-X
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. "Common seashore life of southern California." Illustrated by Sam Hinton. Edited by Vinson Brown. Healdsburg, Calif., Naturegraph Co., c1961. 64 p. illus. (part col.) map. 22 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. On the evolutionary significance of the Pycnogonida. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1947. 53 p. plate. 25 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. Pycnogonida of the United States Navy Antarctic Expedition, 1947-48. Washington. (1954). p. 147-160. illus., chart. 24 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. The Pycnogonida of the western North Atlantic and the Caribbean. Washington. [n.d.] p. 157-342. illus., maps (part fold.) 24 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. Report of the Pycnogonida collected by the Albatross in Japanese waters in 1900 and 1906. Washington. [n.d.] p. 233-321. illus., maps (1 fold.) 24 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. Twice to the mark : translations from the Greek / Joel W. Hedgpeth. Oakland, Calif. : J.W. Hedgpeth, [198-?] [11] p. ; 15 cm.
*Hedgpeth, Joel W. (Joel Walker), 1911-2006. Willapa Bay : a historical perspective and a rationale for research / by Joel W. Hedgpeth and Steven Obrebski. Washington, D.C. : Coastal Ecosystems Project, Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1981. viii, 52 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
*National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology. "Treatise on marine ecology and paleoecology." Joel W. Hedgpeth, editor. [New York] 1957. 2 v. illus., ports., maps (part fold.) charts, diagrs., profiles, tables. 26 cm.
*Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948. "Between Pacific tides : an account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico" / Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin ; foreword by John Steinbeck ; line drawings by Ritchie Lovejoy. 3rd ed., rev. / revisions by Joel W. Hedgpeth. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1962. xiii, 516 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
*Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948. "Between Pacific tides" / Edward F. Ricketts, Jack Calvin, and Joel W. Hedgpeth. 5th ed. / revised by David W. Phillips. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1985. xxvi, 652 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-8047-1229-8 , ISBN 0-8047-1244-1 (student ed.)
*Tichenor, Jerome (a pseudonym for Joel Hedgpeth), 1911-2006. "Poems in contempt of progress." Edited by Joel W. Hedgpeth. Pacific Grove, Calif., Boxwood Press [1974] viii, 70 p. 22 cm.
* [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22jw+hedgpeth%22+OR+%22joel+hedgpeth%22+OR+%22joel+w.+hedgpeth&btnG=Search Google Scholar results for Joel W. Hedgpeth]

References

* [http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/5604/hedgpethanthology.htm Joel Hedgpeth Anthology] : Compiled by Robert "Roy" J. van de Hoek
* [http://blogs.ocregister.com/sciencedude/archives/2006/08/nasa_visits_oc.html Sciencedude by Gary Robbins: Obituary of Joel Hedgpeth]
*Smith, Randall W. 2007. Beyond Pacific Tides: The Inner Shores. Remembering Joel Walker Hedgpeth (1911-2006). The Quarterly Review of Biology 82(2):93-96.