PLACE Lecture Series

Title

The Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Collection

Streaming Media

Document Type

Video File

Duration

44 minutes 6 seconds

Publication Date

4-9-2015

Disciplines

Archival Science | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Women's History

Abstract

Linfield College student Samantha Hilton '15 delivers a talk summarizing her year-long experience working with the Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds Papers and discusses the exhibit she created from materials in the collection, which is part of the Linfield College Archives. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds was an ecologist and former professor of biology at Linfield who devoted 50 years of her life to studying the Douglas fir trees along Oregon’s coastline. Dirks-Edmunds's study of Saddleback (Saddle Bag) Mountain is considered the most comprehensive ecological study in the Northwest. In her lecture, Hilton highlights items from the collection, provides a timeline of major accomplishments, and shares a glimpse of who Dirks-Edmunds was as a person.

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