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Ransom Aldrich "Ram" Myers, Jr. (13 June 1952 – 27 March 2007) was a world-renowned marine biologist and conservationist. He was the son of cotton planter, Ransom Aldrich Myers, Sr. and Fay A. Mitchell Myers. At age 16, in 1968, Myers won an international science fair for building an "X-ray crystallograph" which measured the symmetry of atoms.〔(Boston Globe Obituaries: Ransom Myers, 54, fish preservation advocate ) 〕 Myers graduated with a B.Sc. in physics from Rice University in 1974 followed by an M.Sc. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in biology from Dalhousie University. Before joining the faculty of Dalhousie University in 1997 as the first Killam Chair in Ocean Studies, he was a research scientist at the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St. John's, Newfoundland.〔 (Resume of Ransom A. Myers )〕 Myers was best known for his passionate warnings on the worldwide overfishing of the fish stocks in the oceans, in particular, the Atlantic cod and Southern bluefin tuna. As a member of the IUCN shark specialist group, he collected data about the decline of shark populations and directed the focus of the media to threatened shark species. One of Myers' most important areas of research was stock recruitment: collection and analysis of data and the subsequent development of models to predict the survival rate for fish larvae. In the October 2005 issue of ''Fortune'' Myers was listed among the world's ten people to watch for "working to develop new and better ways to husband the wealth beneath the sea." 〔(Fortune: Fast-Forward to the Future ) 〕 He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 54, from a brain tumor. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ransom A. Myers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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