Landon Timmonds Ross Jr. (October 19, 1942 – February 7, 2016) was an American environmental biologist. He received master's degrees in

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FSU master's thesis
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), and a

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Ph.D. from Florida State
FSU doctoral dissertation
, while studying

malacology Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

there. Ross spent his career, between 1970 and 2000, employed as an environmental biologist: as lead biologist with the state of

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agency regulating the environment ( Pollution Control, Environmental Regulation), or as central biology laboratory leader (

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). His scientific contributions cover a relatively wide range of subjects, mostly related to Florida's environment."The relationship between Jackson turbidity units and nephelometric turbidity units, as determined from various Florida sediment samples"
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References

Publications available on-line (partial list)

*Florida Dept. Environmental Regulation, Tech. Ser. 10(1) 48pp (1990) tp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/labs/biology/miscpubs/ross90.pdf "Methods for Aquatic Biology"*Hydrobiologia 71(1-2): 51-60 (with co-authors) (1980
"Diel variations of selected physico-chemical parameters in Lake Kissimmee, Florida"
*Nautilus 78(2): 50-52 (1964
"The Land Mollusks of Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida"

External links

*Enviro-Net 4 Aug 199
"DEP lab answers call for special services"
*First Monday 5:6(6), Stephanie Haas and Priscilla Caplan, Linking Florida's Natural Heritage, June 200

*U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc

*St. Petersburg Times, 7 Dec 197
"Dead Fish Glut Peace River"
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