Jack Vallentyne
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Canadian biochemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jack Vallentyne was a Canadian biochemist and the 2001 recipient of the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award. Background Born in Toronto, Vallentyne completed his undergraduate studies in Biology and Chemistry at Queen's University and his Ph.D. in Paleo-Limnology at Yale University under the supervision of George Evelyn Hutchinson. From 1943 to 1945 Vallentyne served in the military. He and his wife Ann had five children: Peter, Stephen, Jane, Anne Marie, and Geoffrey.
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- Biogeochemistry of organic matter—II Thermal reaction kinetics and transformation products of amino compounds (1964) (178)
- International Joint Commission (Canada/United States): Annual Review of Progress under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972—held in Windsor, Ontario, 17–20 July 1978 (1978) (142)
- The Molecular Nature of Organic Matter in Lakes and Oceans, with Lesser Reference to Sewage and Terrestrial Soils (1957) (119)
- Algal bowl; lakes and man (1974) (107)
- SEDIMENTARY CHLOROPHYLL DETERMINATION AS A PALEOBOTANICAL METHOD (1955) (107)
- Rationale, Background, and Development of Experimental Lake Studies in Northwestern Ontario (1971) (87)
- Biogeochemistry of organic matter—I (1960) (76)
- ISOLATION OF PYRITE SPHERULES FROM RECENT SEDIMENTS (1963) (72)
- Special Contribution: Managing the Great Lakes Basin as a Home (1986) (49)
- The ‘Ecosystem’ Approach to Managing Human Uses and Abuses of Natural Resources in the Great Lakes Basin (1988) (48)
- Epiphasic Carotenoids in Post‐Glacial Lake Sediments (1956) (42)
- ENVIRONMENTAL BIOPHYSICS AND MICROBIAL UBIQUITY (1963) (42)
- Pyrolysis of proline, leucine, arginine and lysine in aqueous solution (1968) (38)
- Thermal reaction kinetics of the glutamic acid-pyroglutamic acid system in water (1964) (34)
- Fifth Year Review of Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: Report of Task Group 3: A Technical Group to Review Phosphorus Loadings (1978) (32)
- The Relation Between Free Sugars and Sedimentary Chlorophyll in Lake Muds (1956) (29)
- Pyrolysis of amino acids in Pleistocene Mercenaria shells (1969) (29)
- On the Occurrence of Free Sugars in Lake Sediment Extracts (1957) (29)
- A reinvestigation of the history of Lower Linsley Pond, Connecticut (1955) (28)
- A Modification of the Livingstone Piston Sampler for Lake Deposits (1955) (28)
- On the Presence of Free Sugars in Filtered Lake Water. (1956) (23)
- Insect Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Compounds from Lakes (1952) (22)
- Carotenoids in a 20,000-year-old sediment from Searles Lake, California. (1957) (21)
- Two aspects of the geochemistry of amino acids. (1965) (20)
- A Visual Demonstration of the Beneficial Effects of Sewage Treatment for Phosphate Removal on Particulate Matter Production in Waters of Lakes Erie and Ontario (1970) (17)
- Biospheric foundations of the ecosystem approach to environmental management (1993) (15)
- Sedimentary Organic Matter and Paleolimnology (1969) (14)
- Proposal: International Year of the Biosphere (1980) (13)
- MANAGINGTHE GREAT LAKES BASIN AS A HOME (1986) (13)
- SEDIMENTARY CHLOROPHYLL DEGRADATION PRODUCTS IN SURFACE MUDS FROM CONNECTICUT LAKES (1957) (10)
- Early Reactions to the Concept of ‘The International Year of the Biosphere’ (1980) (9)
- From aquatic science to ecosystem health: a philosophical perspective (1993) (9)
- Consumption: the other side of population for development* (2012) (8)
- Battle for the Biosphere (1980) (8)
- On the rate of formation of black spheres in recent sediments (1961) (7)
- Fish Scales in a Sediment Core from Linsley Pond, Connecticut (1956) (7)
- The Algal Bowl--a Faustian view of eutrophication. (1973) (7)
- Thermal Stability of Threonine in the Presence of a Marine Polyphenolic Material (1966) (7)
- Biochemical Limnology. (1954) (7)
- The case of the missing ozone: are physiatrists to blame? (1988) (6)
- Infusing ecology into politics (1999) (6)
- Note from a ‘SAVE OUR BIOSPHERE’ Sticker Distributor (1982) (6)
- Extending causality in the Great Lakes basin ecosystem (1999) (6)
- FUNGAL DECOMPOSITION AND AMINO ACID ANALYSIS OF MYSIS RELICTA LOVÉN1 (1969) (6)
- New approaches to the study of lake sediments (1953) (5)
- Facing the Long Term: An Inquiry into Opportunities to Improve the Climate for Research with Reference to Limnology in Canada (1978) (5)
- New term introduced at first conference on environmental future (1972) (5)
- A laboratory study of the formation of sediment bands (1955) (4)
- Limnology and Education in the Next Decade (1974) (4)
- SECTION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES: CONCERNING LOVE, MICROFOSSILS, AND PYRITE SPHERULES* (1962) (4)
- INTRODUCTION: WHY EXOBIOLOGY? (1965) (4)
- ‘Johnny Biosphere’ (1984) (4)
- Towards a Symbol for the World Campaign for The Biosphere (1984) (4)
- A Simplified Model of a Lake for Instructional Use (1967) (3)
- A DESCRIPTION OF HUTCHINSON LAKE, ONTARIO (1971) (3)
- Twenty-First Congress of the International Association of Limnology (SIL), held at the International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan, during 24–31 August 1980 (1980) (3)
- DEFINITION OF A LIMNOLOGIST (1969) (3)
- The ecosystem approach to planning, research and management in the Great Lakes Basin (1981) (2)
- PRINCIPLES OF MODERN LIMNOLOGY1 (2016) (2)
- Workshop on ‘Implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Great Lakes Basin’, held at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, during 22–24 March 1983 (1983) (2)
- Experimental lakes in Northwestern Ontario (1969) (2)
- Origin of the proposal for the world decade of the biosphere, 1982–1992 (1981) (2)
- Global Resource Resolution (1977) (2)
- Demophora: Greeks Had Words for the Interdependence of Biological and Technical Growth (1973) (1)
- Amino acids in a silurian evaporite: Abstract (1966) (1)
- Integrating Human and Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Basin: The Rationale for Sunsetting Industrial Chlorine (2008) (1)
- The Boell and Shen method for determining nitrogen in water. (1955) (1)
- Eco-clubs: A Role for Children in Environmental Conservation (1994) (0)
- Experimental breakage of Bosmina exo-skeletons in a medium of watery mud (1957) (0)
- Letter to the editor. (1970) (0)
- INTEGRATING HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN: K 144 (1996) (0)
- Acetate incorporation , an indicator of lipid biosynthesis within intact river biofilms (0)
- A scientific look at Lake Baikal, USSR (1972) (0)
- XXII Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology (SIL), held at Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France, during 21–28 August 1983 (1983) (0)
- Announcement Assistant Deputy Minister (Science) Distinction Award presented to Dr. Mohiuddin Munawar, Chief Editor. January 15, 2008 (2008) (0)
- Four centuries of cumulative impacts on a Finnish river and its estuary : an ecosystem health-approach (0)
- Who's who in ecology 1973.1973. Special Reports, Inc., 8 West 40th St., New York. 291 p. $35.00. (1974) (0)
- Brinkhurst, R. O., and D. A. Chant. 1971. This good, good earth: Our fight for survival. The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, x + 174 p. $6.95. (1971) (0)
- Eutrophication—Key Elementsr (1970) (0)
- An English Text on Animal Ecology (1954) (0)
- Sulfur in Ether Extracts of Lake Sediments (1952) (0)
- Canada's Rawson Academy of Aquatic Science (1982) (0)
- XXI General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, during 22–27 August 1982 (1982) (0)
- On the Presence of Free Sugars in Filtered Lake Water (1956) (0)
- COWGILL, U. M., C. E. GOULDEN, G. E. HUTCHINSON, R. PATRICK, A. A. RACEK, AND M. TSUKADA. 1966. The History of Laguna de Petenxil. Mem. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., v. 27. 126 p. (1967) (0)
- Sulfur in Ether Extracts of Lake Sediments. (1952) (0)
- Third Annual Meeting of the World Council for the Biosphere (WCB) and of Its Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) with the International Society for Environmental Education (ISEE), held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA, during 9–12 September 1986 (1987) (0)
- Political, social and institutional barriers to environmental information (1992) (0)
- Society for International Development (SID) Sixteenth World Conference held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo, Sri Lanka, during 13–15 August 1979 (1979) (0)
- Decomposition of amino compounds after burial in sediments (1964) (0)
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