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S. Pearse
John S. Pearse
University of California, Santa Cruz
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John Pearse spent
14 months at McMurdo Station in 1960-1962 doing his doctoral
research with Stanford University on the reproduction of marine
benthic invertebrates. He discovered that the most abundant
sea star there had feeding pelagic larvae, a quite unexpected
finding. After teaching and doing research at the American University
in Cairo, Egypt, and the California Institute of Technology,
he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa
Cruz in 1972 where he taught and did research in the rocky intertidal
and kelp forests of California. In 1984-85 he returned to McMurdo
Station with his students to look further at the reproduction
of Antarctic benthic invertebrates, and his group went back
again in 1989-90 to examine how pelagic larvae are nourished.
On his last trip to the Antarctic in 2002, in the Weddell Sea
aboard the German ship Polarstern, he and his last
student studied brooding sea urchins.
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