ARCTIC

• Main Author: Professor Emeri
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.657.5814; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/4431/4500/

became a faculty member at Rutgers University and retired as Distinguished Professor in 1984. He maintained regular office activities in his department at Rutgers until his recent illness. In addition to teaching numerous courses in soil science throughout his career, he authored and coauthored more than 100 refereed journal articles and books, served as editor-in-chief of the journal Soil Science (1968 – 79), and wrote extensively on the soils of New Jersey. He was major advisor to 17 PhD students and seven master’s candidates. John encouraged both his undergraduate and graduate students to take courses in plant and animal ecology, thus ensuring a broad interdisciplinary approach to their future endeavors. John began his Arctic and polar career in the early 1950s on the North Slope of Alaska as a member of the Air Force-sponsored Keys project (Tedrow, 2005). Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, he followed his interest in the Alas-