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Storrs Lovejoy Olson〔(The Washington Biologists' Field Club: its members and its history (1900–2006) ). The Washington Biologists’ Field Club, 2007, ISBN 978-0-615-16259-1〕 (born April 3, 1944〔 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biologist and ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution. He is one of the world's foremost avian paleontologists.〔. Cooper Ornithological Society〕 He achieved a BSc in biology 1965 and a DSc in paleornithology in 1969, at the faculty of biology of Johns Hopkins University. An appointment with Alexander Wetmore in 1967 led him to his main research field of paleornithology〔 and to his work on Ascension Island and Saint Helena where he made remarkable discoveries in the 1970s, including the Saint Helena hoopoe and the Saint Helena crake.〔 In 1976 he met his future wife Helen F. James〔 who later became another known paleornithologist herself, focusing on Late Quaternary prehistoric birds.〔(Helen F. James ). National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution〕 During their pioneering research work on Hawaii, which lasted 23 years, Olson and James found and described the remains of 50 extinct bird species new to science, including the nēnē-nui, the moa-nalos〔 the apteribises,〔 and the ''Grallistrix'' "stilt-owls".〔 He was also one of the authors of the description of the extinct rodent ''Noronhomys vespuccii''. In 1982, he discovered subfossil bones of the long ignored Brace's emerald on the Bahamas, which gave evidence that this hummingbird is a valid and distinct species. In November 1999, Olson wrote an open letter to the National Geographic Society, in which he criticized Christopher P. Sloan's claims about the dinosaur-to-bird transition which referred to the fake species ''Archaeoraptor''.〔(El 'escándalo archaeoraptor' José Luis Sanz y Francisco Ortega ). El País, 16 February 2000〕 In 2000, he helped to resolve the mystery of ''Necropsar leguati'' from the World Museum Liverpool, which turned out to be an albinistic specimen of the grey trembler. Olson was the 1994 recipient of the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award.〔. Cooper Ornithological Society〕 He was formerly curator of birds at the United States National Museum of Natural History; , he holds an emeritus position in the institution. Several prehistoric bird species named after Storrs Olson, including ''Nycticorax olsoni'', ''Himantopus olsoni'', ''Puffinus olsoni'' ''Primobucco olsoni'', ''Gallirallus storrsolsoni'', and ''Quercypodargus olsoni''. ==References== 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「Storrs L. Olson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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