Bruce Pettit McCune (born 1952) is an American lichenologist, botanist, plant ecologist, and software developer for analysis of ecological data.
Biography
McCune grew up in Cincinnati. He completed his freshman year of college at
Lawrence University
Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, its first classes were held on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the U.S. to be founded as a coeducation ...
in
Appleton, Wisconsin, and then transferred to the
University of Montana
The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal ...
in the autumn of 1971. There he graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in botany. From 1971 to 1974 McCune and his then girlfriend, Patricia S. Muir, spent considerable time on
Mount Sentinel, where they investigated lichens, mosses, and other plants. From 1974 to 1975 he travelled and also worked for two summers in Montana for the
Bureau of Land Management
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. From 1976 to 1979 he was a graduate student at the University of Montana, where he graduated with a master's degree.
In August 1979 he married Patricia Muir. She graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Montana.
In 1979 the couple matriculated as graduate students at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...
. There he received in 1982 his Ph.D. with a dissertation on forest ecology
[ and she received in 1984 her Ph.D. with a dissertation on plant ecology.][ In 1984 he became a postdoc in Indianapolis.][ At Oregon State University he was from 1987 to 1993 an assistant professor, from 1993 to 1999 an associate professor, and from 1999 to the present a full professor.][ Patricia Muir also obtained a professorship at Oregon State University.][
He and his wife have two daughters.][
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Selected publications
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See also
* :Taxa named by Bruce McCune
References
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1952 births
Living people
American lichenologists
Plant ecologists
University of Montana alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Oregon State University faculty
Acharius Medal recipients