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| No children.1 Delivered-To: wruesink@prairienet.org X-Sender: wruesink@staff.uiuc.edu Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:51:07 -0600 To: wruesink-prairienet <wruesink@prairienet.org> From: Cathy Bialeschki <cathyb@inhs.uiuc.edu> (by way of William Ruesink <wruesink@uiuc.edu>) Subject: Death of Dr. Harold Hanson Mime-Version: 1.0 Status: RO Harold C. Hanson 1917-2003 Harold C. Hanson, retired Professional Scientist with the Illinois Natural History Survey, passed away March 17, 2003. Dr. Hanson graduated in 1940 with a B.S. degree from Luther College, and received an M.Sc. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1943 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1958. No funeral or memorial service are planned. However, flowers or a memorial contribution will be sent in the name of the Survey. Harold Hanson was the author or coauthor of more than 40 scientific publications, including studies of arctic birds and mammals, cottontail rabbits, wood duck, diseases and parasites of ducks and geese, voles, sharp-tailed grouse, Canada geese, and other topics. Several of his research projects reported results that were new directions for research or land mark works. These included techniques for determination of age and sex in birds, artificial propagation of captive waterfowl, bioenergetics of reproduction in birds, mourning dove ecology, use of feather minerals as biological tracers for determination of breeding and molting grounds of waterfowl, the importance of mineral licks to North American ungulates, and the identification of various races of Canada Geese. It was this last topic that consumed Dr. Hanson's later years and he recently completed a multi-volume treatise and "The White-cheeked Geese." Dr. Hanson won The Wildlife Society's Terrestrial Publication Award in 1967 for his book, "Giant Canada Goose", and the same award in 1978 for "The Biogeochemistry of Blue, Snow, and Ross' Geese." Cathy J. Bialeschki Administrative Assistant Office of The Chief Illinois Natural History Survey 607 East Peabody Drive Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: 217-333-6830 Fax: 217-265-6418 cathyb@inhs.uiuc.edu | ||||||||||||||
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