Talk:Margaret Bryan Davis

Education
Margaret received a B.A from Radcliffe college (1953), Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University (1957) and an honorary M.S from Yale University (1974). During her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe, she took a class on paleobotany which sparked her interested. She became interested in the vegetational history of the Quaternary period, which she studied under Elso Borghoorn (paleobotanist). Still during her time at Radcliffe, she received a Fulbright fellowship, which allowed her to take her research to Greenland to study at University of Copenhagen under Johannes Iversen of the Danish Geological Survey. There she studied glacial plant pollen deposition. Her findings were published in her first paper, "Interglacial Pollen Spectra from Greenland", in 1954. This research attributed to her doctorate in biology. Her studies then brought her to her professional work at the National Science Foundation as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. She followed up by studying geology at the California Institute of Technology for two years. She then spend the next year at Yale University as a research fellow, studying vegetation composition and pollen sedimentation in lakes. In 1961, she was a research associate for the Department of Botany at University of Michigan. In 1966 and 1970, University of Michigan promoted Davis to professorship in the Department of Zoology. In 1973, she returned back to Yale University as a professor of biology for three years. In 1976, she became a professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Behavioral Science at University of Minnesota. In 1983, she was appointed Regents' Professor of Ecology and is now the Regents' Professor of Emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Kiki190 (talk) 15:51, 23 April 2014 (UTC) Simmons edits (talk) 15:33, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Institutions
She worked a lot of Universities, such as Yale, Harvard, California Institute of Technology, and University of Michigan. We can add this to her Career section. We can use this (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1756681/Margaret-Bryan-Davis) website to help us with this article too. Kiki190 (talk) 15:22, 4 April 2014 (UTC) Here is also another website that tells a lot about her life and education. (http://en.cyclopaedia.net/wiki/Margaret-Bryan-Davis#wikipedia) Kiki190 (talk) 15:38, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Childhood
Davis spent her childhood and adolescence in the Boston area. Kerrybackman (talk) 15:25, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Sex Discrimination
Dr. Margaret Bran Davis was married to Rowland Davis in 1956. When she accepted a job with UM, she and Rowland settled in Ann Arbor because se knew she had a job in that area. She later admits that she believes this put her in a poor position to bargain for salary. Because of this, Davis believes that her future employer took advantage of this, "'Salary is set by bargaining,' she says and adds that the employer pays what he feels the market will bear, not . what the merits of the employee are. 'Men can move. Everybody believes women can't,' she says. 'I was vulnerable to low wages because I couldn't I leave the University. I was the lowest paid person in my ranking.' Dr. Davis also felt her promotion to full professor at a below-the-minimum salary proved that she was being taken advantage of. Yet the promotion itself indicated she was highly regarded by her colleagues and superiors." (http://oldnews.aadl.org/node/89848) Kerrybackman (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:11, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Research Interests
Quaternary paleoecology; history of forest communities; past changes in geographical distributions of forest species; effects of soil development on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; earth system science and past and future global change. — Preceding Kerrybackman (talk) 15:53, 4 April 2014 (UTC) (http://www.cbs.umn.edu/explore/departments/eeb/faculty-research/directory/margaret-b-davis)

Important findings include her analysis of pollen to determine trends in plant growth. She was extremely interested in understanding the flora of the late Quaternary Period, about 10,000 years ago. Kerrybackman (talk) 15:53, 4 April 2014 (UTC) She then studied in Greenland on a Fullbright Scholarship. While there she recorded pollen deposits during the interglacial period. Later, David shifted her interests to geology. She studied the relationship between lake sediments and vegetation composition. These efforts were solidified through a publishing of her article in the American Journal of Science. Kerrybackman (talk) 15:53, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Publications
"Davis, M.B., T.E. Parshall and J. B. Ferrari. 1996. Landscape heterogeneity of hemlock-hardwood forest in northern Michigan. Northeastern Old-Growth Forest, ed. Mary Byrd Davis, Island Press pp. 291-304.

Davis, M.B. and S. Sugita. 1995. Reevaluating the pollen record of Holocene tree migration. In Past and future environmental changes: the spatial and evolutionary responses of terrestrial biota. Proceedings of a NATO workshop. B. Huntley, ed., Elsevier, London. in press.

Davis, M.B., S. Sugita, R.R.Calcote, J.B. Ferrari, and L.E. Frelich. 1994. Historical development of alternate communities in a hemlock-hardwood forest in northern Michigan, USA. p. 19-39 in Large-scale Ecology and Conservation Biology. R. May, N. Webb, and P. Edwards, eds., Blackwell, Oxford.

Frelich, L.E., R.R.Calcote, M.B. Davis, and J. Pastor. 1993. Patch formation and maintenance in an old-growth hemlock-hardwood forest. Ecology 74(2): 513-527.

Davis, M.B., S. Sugita, R.R.Calcote, and L.E. Frelich. 1992. Effects of invasion by Tsuga canadensis on a North American forest ecosystem. pp. 34-44 in Response of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes. A.Teller, P. Mathy, and J.N.R. Jefferes, eds., Elsevier Applied Science, London.

Davis, M.B., M.W.Schwartz, and K.D.Woods. 1991. Detecting a species limit from fossil pollen in sediment. Jour. Biogeography 128: 653-668. Kerrybackman (talk) 15:25, 4 April 2014 (UTC)" (http://www.cbs.umn.edu/explore/departments/eeb/faculty-research/directory/margaret-b-davis)

Davis, Margaret B. "Climatic Changes in Southern Connecticut Recorded by Pollen Deposition at Rogers Lake." Ecology 50.3 (1969): 409. Print. Amolnarfenton (talk) 16:17, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Source Suggestion
You might want to look at: American women in science : 1950 to the present : a biographical dictionary Twepperson (talk) 15:27, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

This is a link to an article of Margaret Bryan Davis's pollen research published in the American Journal of Science http://www.ajsonline.org/content/256/8/540.full.pdf Amolnarfenton (talk) 15:50, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Take a look at: Encyclopedia of World Scientists By Elizabeth H. Oakes Kerrybackman (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:20, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/files/publications/pdfs/Allison_Ecology_1986.pdf (this is her work on pollen) Kiki190 (talk) 15:39, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

feedback for the Simmons folks
It seems you are using the Talk Page to assemble material that will eventually be incorporated into the article, right? Please use this page to monitor who's doing what, and remember to sign any additions to the talk page. Thanks. Twepperson (talk) 20:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

source suggestion
for her publications you should include" Evolutionary Responses to Changing Climate Margaret B. Davis, Ruth G. Shaw and Julie R. Etterson Ecology Vol. 86, No. 7, Jul., 2005 JSTOR Twepperson (talk) 16:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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