Eugene F. Stoermer (March 7, 1934 – February 17, 2012) was a leading researcher in diatoms, with a special emphasis on freshwater species of the North American Great Lakes. He was a professor of biology at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Biography
His Bachelor of Science degree was obtained in 1958 and his Doctor of Biological Science in 1963, both from Iowa State University. His doctoral thesis was "Post-pleistocene diatoms from Lake West Okoboji, Iowa" [1]
Stoermer originally coined and used the term Anthropocene from the early 1980s to refer to the impact and evidence for the effects of human activity on the planet earth. The word was not used in general culture until it was popularized in 2000 by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemistPaul Crutzen and others who regard the influence of human behavior on Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch.[2]
He is the co-author with J. P. Smol of The Diatoms Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN0511155069; According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1262 libraries [3]
In 2009, he received the honor of a festschrift, Diatom taxonomy, ultrastructure, and ecology : modern methods and timeless questions : a tribute to Eugene F. Stoermer[4]
Named after him
Diatom genera — Stoermeria J.P. Kociolek, L. Escobar & S. Richardon, 1996.
Diatom species:
Amphora stoermerii M. Edlund & Z. Levkov, 2009
Amphorotia stoermeri D.M. Williams & G. Reid, 2006
Colliculoamphora stoermeri G. Reid & D.M. Williams, 2009
Encyonema stoermeri S.A. Spaulding, J.R. Pool & S.I. Castro, 2010
Encyonopsis stoermeri H. Lange-Bertalot & D. Metzeltin, 2009
Frustulia stoermeri H. Lange-Bertalot & D. Metzeltin, 2009
^Stoermer, Eugene F., John Patrick Kociolek, Edward C. Theriot, and R. Jan Stevenson. Diatom Taxonomy, Ultrastructure, and Ecology: Modern Methods and Timeless Questions : a Tribute to Eugene F. Stoermer. Berlin: J. Cramer, 2009. ISBN9783443510572