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A little bit about me:I grew up in a southern California beach community, and was always interested in the local marine environment. Marine plants, particularly seagrasses were my first professional interest, and led to studies of stable carbon isotopes, which vary in ways in seagrasses that are still being explored. Some of the same seagrasses that grow on sunny beaches in California also grow in Alaska, so to me it was completely understandable to move north to Santa Cruz, to Seattle, and to Fairbanks, with fieldwork in Sitka and Cold Bay. I was at UCLA for a two-year postdoc, studying carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotope variation in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater plants. Returning to California reminded me of why I might have left Los Angeles, and I went from there to Tennessee for 20 years, where I worked for both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. During that period, I developed active, sea-going research programs, primarily in the Arctic with professional collaborators that include my spouse, Jacqueline Grebmeier, and we both
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Annie Lee Cooper
June 2, 1910 – November 24, 2010
Raised in Selma, Alabama
“Upfront, pleasant and…absolutely fearless” was how John Lewis described Selma-native Annie Lee Cooper. By the fall of 1963, the voting drive in Selma had “mushroomed into the testing ground for SNCC’s ‘One man – One vote’ campaign,” and Ms. Cooper was on the front lines of that fight, opening both her heart and home to SNCC and, later, SCLC.
She was born in 1910, when the cotton bales that made Selma “the queen city of the Black Belt” still shipped south by steamboat on the Alabama River. While white Selma flourished on cotton’s bounty, Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers labored on plantations in conditions barely distinguishable from slavery. In 1901, Alabama’s newly-passed constitution purged Black voters from the rolls using poll tax and literacy requirements, and Annie Lee Cooper grew up never giving a thought to the idea that Black people could vote. It was only when she moved to Kentucky as a fourteen-year-old to live with her ill sister that she saw Black people going to the
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Lee Cooper (guitarist)
American blues guitarist
Echford Lee Cooper Jr. (possibly April 13, 1925 – possibly August 1966),[1] known as Lee Cooper, was an American blues guitarist. Because of his relatively short career and the anonymous role of session musicians in the 1950s, Cooper is said to be "overlooked and highly underrated."[2] Cooper was an early master of the preferred bold style of Chicago blues guitar, so much so that he became the first successor to Howlin' Wolf's original lead guitarist.[3]
Probably born in Lexington, Mississippi, where he grew up, he started performing on the electric guitar in Chicago in the 1940s. In 1945, he was performing with the Chicago jazz group the Hi-Di-Ho Boys after replacing the group's founding guitarist Lefty Bates.[4] According to musician Eddie Boyd, with whom he later performed, Cooper was a chemistry graduate who lost an eye when acid splashed into it.[5] By the early 1950s, Cooper regularly performed with Kansas City Red,[5] and on sessions at Chess Records on
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