John W. Marr Papers, 1932-2001.

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John W. Marr Papers, 1932-2001.

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Mrs. Ruby Marr has added correspondence and materials about Dr. Marr's career, and Mrs. Marr has kindly added explanatory notes on certain documents. John W. Marr, a professor in the Biology Department at the University of Colorado 1944-1982, was a major contributor to arctic and alpine ecology, and a primary facilitator of ecological research in alpine tundra in the U.S. He established the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (IAAR) at C.U. in 1951, and researched the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Canada.

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John W. Marr (1914-1989) was born in Lamesa, Texas. He became a major contributor to arctic and alpine ecology, and a primary facilitator of ecological research in alpine tundra in the U.S. He majored in botany at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas, in the early 1930s and developed a life-long interest in mountains during a school field camp in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico. Marr received his bachelor's degree from Texas Tech in 1936, and Marr transferred to th...

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