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Joseph Bryan Nelson
:''For other people named Joseph Nelson, see Joseph Nelson (disambiguation); for other people named Bryan Nelson, see Brian Nelson (disambiguation)''
Joseph Bryan Nelson MBE FRSE (14 March 1932 – 29 June 2015) was a British ornithologist, environmental activist and academic. He was a prominent authority on seabirds, publishing numerous books and articles on gannets, cormorants and other species, teaching zoology at the University of Aberdeen, and conducting pioneering ornithological research in Jordan, Christmas Island and the Galápagos Islands.〔 In his lifetime, Nelson was "acclaimed as the world's leading expert on the northern gannet". He also contributed to the creation of Christmas Island National Park, which helped to preserve the habitat of the endangered Abbott's booby.〔〔
==Early life and education==
Nelson was born in Shipley, West Yorkshire in 1932, the third of four children of a motor engineer and a draper.〔 For most of his life, he was known by his middle name, Bryan. As a child during World War II, he developed a fascination with birds after he was given a book on ornithology.〔 He attended a grammar school in the town of Saltaire, but left school at 16 and worked for some years in a sewage treatment plant to help support his family.〔 After completing his studies at a night school, Nelson attended St Andrews University to study zoology, graduating in 1959.〔 Thereafter, he began a DPhil in ecology at Oxford University, working under the supervision of the Nobel Prize-winning Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen.〔 In 1960, Nelson married his research colleague June Davison, who accompanied him to Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth to study gannets.〔 The couple spent their honeymoon on Bass Rock, and subsequently lived there in a garden shed from 1960–63. Without insulation and held down against the wind by hawsers, the shed was erected with the aid of local lighthouse keepers, and "sat eerily within the ruins of the sixth-century St Baldred's chapel."〔 They endured harsh coastal weather and regularly climbed down steep cliffs without safety equipment to study birds' nests.〔
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