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David Stoddart (geographer)
David Ross Stoddart, (15 November 1937 – 23 November 2014) was a British physical geographer known for the study of coral reefs and atolls. He was also known for key works on the history and philosophy of geography as an academic discipline. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and then professor and later emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley.〔http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=40〕〔Obituary, The Independent, 4 December 2014〕
==Early and private life==
Stoddart grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, north-east England. His parents both served in France during the First World War, his father with the Royal Flying Corps and his mother as a nurse. His father later became an engineer working in the construction of heavy industrial buildings for Ashmore, Benson, and Pease (later Davy International; now part of Siemens). He had two siblings.
He married fellow Cambridge geographer June in 1961 and had a daughter, Aldabra (named after the island) and a son, Michael. He collected a very large private library in Berkeley.
Stoddart suffered from diabetes and skin cancer in later life.〔http://geography.berkeley.edu/video/walker/walkertalks/ Walker, R. 2012. ''From the Age of Dino-Sauers to the Anthropo-Scene: Reminiscences of life in Berkeley Geography, 1975–2012''. Retirement talk, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 25 April 2012〕 He died in Berkeley, California on 23 November 2014.〔http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/09/david-stoddart〕
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