Daniel Isaac Axelrod (July 16, 1910 – June 2, 1998) was an American
paleoecologist specializing in
Tertiary Cordilleran floras, in particular correlating fossil evidence of specific floras with climate change indicators.
Biography
He received his
A.B. in
botany, and an
M.A. and
Ph.D. in
paleobotany
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from the
University of California at Berkeley. He served in the
United States Army during
World War II performing strategic analysis of
aerial photograph
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Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing ai ...
s of
terrane. After the war he was hired as an assistant professor of
geology at the
University of California at Los Angeles. He eventually became a full professor of both geology and
botany at UCLA before moving to the
University of California at Davis as a professor of paleoecology late in his career. He became professor
emeritus
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at Davis in 1976. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.
His collections of fossil type floras are housed at the
University of California Museum of Paleontology
Awards
*
Hayden Memorial Geological Award, 1979
*
Paleontological Society Medal, 1990
See also
*
Harry Paul Bailey
References
External links
UCMP Paleobotany collection catalogs
1910 births
1998 deaths
20th-century American geologists
United States Army personnel of World War II
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
20th-century American botanists
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