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C. Richard Tracy

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = C. Richard Tracy

| image = CRT Tracy in suit.jpeg

| caption = C. Richard Tracy

| birth_name = Clarence Richard Tracy

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|05|24|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Glendale, California, United States

| alma_mater = California State University, Northridge (B.A.), (M.S.)

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.)

| field = Conservation Biology, Biological Ecology, Ecology, Endangered Species Recovery Planning, Great Basin Ecology, Habitat Conservation Planning, Herpetology, Physiological Ecology, Population Biology

}}

C. Richard (Dick) Tracy is an American biologist, a professor of biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.[http://www.unr.edu/biology/staff.htm UNR Biology faculty listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230025753/http://www.unr.edu/biology/staff.htm |date=December 30, 2011 }}, retrieved 2012-01-14.

Tracy earned bachelor's and master's degrees in biology at California State University, Northridge in 1966 and 1968, and then moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a Ph.D. in zoology in 1972.[http://www.unr.edu/biology/tracy.htm Faculty profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727160158/http://www.unr.edu/biology/tracy.htm |date=July 27, 2010 }}, UNR, retrieved 2012-01-14. After postdoctoral studies in Madison, he held a faculty position at Colorado State University from 1974 to 1995, when he moved to the University of Nevada, Reno.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} In 1980, Tracy visited the University of Washington in Seattle as a Guggenheim Fellow.[http://www.gf.org/fellows/14800-c-richard-tracy C. Richard Tracy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104235233/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14800-c-richard-tracy |date=January 4, 2013 }}, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2012-01-14.

Tracy's research includes physiological ecology and biophysical ecology, as well as population biology and conservation biology, largely of reptiles and amphibians.{{Cite web|url=http://www.crtracy.com/Tracy/Tracy_Lab_Research.html|title = }} His modeling research on the biophysical ecology of amphibians is considered foundational to our understanding of the ways in which amphibians interact with their physical environments. He has also conducted research on reptilian herbivores including Galapagos Land Iguana, Chuckwallas, and the federally listed desert tortoise. He has served on the desert tortoise recovery team, and chaired the assessment committee for the U.S. government's desert tortoise recovery plan.[http://www.fws.gov/nevada/desert_tortoise/documents/dtrpac/dtrpac_report.pdf Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan Assessment], accessed 2012-01-12.

Education

He received a B.A. in 1966 in biology from the California State University, Northridge. He received an M.S. in 1968 in biology from California State University, Northridge. He received a Ph.D. in 1972 in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

From 1974 to 1995 Tracy was a member of the faculty at Colorado State University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington, the University of Puerto Rico, and Pepperdine University. Tracy has also taught at the biological stations administered by the University of Nebraska, Colorado State University, and the University of Michigan.[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8411712/CRTCV0911awlineage.pdf CURRICULUM VITAE]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved 2012-09-14. He has served as major professor for 45 graduate students and 13 postdocs. Twenty-four of his Ph.D. students and postdocs have become professors at colleges and universities all over the world, and seven are scientists in the U.S. Geological Service.[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8411712/CRTCV0911awlineage.pdf CURRICULUM VITAE]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved 2012-10-05. He maintains a diverse research program including pure and applied projects in physiology, ecology, and conservation biology that has resulted in more than 170 publications. Several projects incorporate principles, data, and analyses into strategies for preserving sensitive biological resources and for conservation planning.[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8411712/CRTCV0911awlineage.pdf CURRICULUM VITAE]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved 2012-10-08.

The lizard species Liolaemus dicktracyi is named after him.{{cite journal|last1=Espinoza |first1=Robert E. |title=Two new species of liolaemus lizards from northwestern Argentina: speciation within the northern subclade of the elongatus group (Iguania: Liolaemidae)|url=http://www.csun.edu/~ree77914/web.pdfs/dicktracyi.umbrifer.pdf |journal=Herpetologica |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=89–105 |year=2003 |doi=10.1655/0018-0831(2003)059[0089:tnsoll]2.0.co;2 |last2=Lobo |first2=Fernando |s2cid=14818076}}.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Tracy, C.R.", p. 267).

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External links

  • [http://www.crtracy.com/ Personal web site]

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Category:Living people

Category:California State University, Northridge alumni

Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni

Category:Colorado State University faculty

Category:University of Nevada, Reno faculty

Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Category:1943 births

Category:21st-century American biologists