Dr. Ruth Patrick - Positions & Activities

Professional Positions | Other Scientific Positions | Committees
Other Activities | Organizational Memberships

Professional Positions

Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1973 - Present.
Honorary Chairman, Board of Trustees of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1976 - Present.
Chairman, Board of Trustees of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1973 - 1976.
Curator of Limnology Department, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1947 - Present.
Chairman, Limnology Department, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1947 - 1973. (established department)
Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1970 - Present.
Lecturer in Botany, University of Pennsylvania, 1950 - 1970.
Mellon Lecturer in Aquatic Biology, Yale University, Fall 1980.
Guest Fellow of Saybrook, Yale University, 1975.
Lecturer in Algae Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1951 - 1955.
Curator, Leidy Microscopical Society, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1937 - 1947.
Associate Curator, Microscopy Department, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1939 - 1947.
Phycology Researcher, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1933 - 1937.

Other Positions Connected with Scientific Work

Limnological expedition to Mexico in 1947, sponsored by American Philosophical Society.
Leader of the expedition to Peru and Brazil in 1955, sponsored by the Catherwood Foundation.
President of the Phycological Society of America, 1954.
Chairman of the Algae Committee of Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center, U.S. National Museum, 1963 - 1968.
Delegate to the General Assembly of International Union of Biological Sciences in Bergen, Norway, 1973.
President of American Society of Naturalists, 1975.
Trustee biol. abstracts, American Naturalist, 1974-76.

Committees

Member of President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee, Panel on Water Blooms, 1966.
Member of Governor Scranton's Science Advisory Committee, Panel on Pollution Control and Water Resources, 1966.
Chairman of Panel of the Committee on Pollution of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1966.
Member of Department of Interior's National Technical Advisory Committee on Water Quality Requirements for Fish, Other Aquatic Life, and Wildlife, 1967 - 1968.
Member of Governor Shafer's Science Advisory Committee, 1967 - 1968.
Member of Citizens' Advisory Council of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, 1971 - 1973.
Member of Hazardous Materials Advisory Committee of Environmental Protection Agency, 1971 - 1974.
Member of Governor Shapp's Science Advisory Council, 1972 - 1978.
Member of Advisory Council, Electric Power Research Institute, 1973 - 1977.
Member of Advisory Committee for Research, National Science Foundation, 1973 - 1974.
Member of Committee on Environmental Alterations of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973 - 1974.
Member of Committee on Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, 1973 - 1977.
Member of Environmental Measurements Panel of the Committee on Remote Sensing Programs for Earth Resource Surveys, National Academy of Sciences, 1973 - 1974.
Member of Nominating Committee for 1973 - 1974 and 1974 - 1975 of the National Academy of Sciences.
Member of National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Environmental Engineering's Ad Hoc Study on Explicity Criteria for Decisions in Power Plant Siting, 1973.
Member of Advisory Council, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, 1973-1976.
Member of the Council, Smithsonian Institution, 1973 - Present.
Member of the Energy Research and Development Advisory Council to President's Energy Policy Office, 1973 - 1974.
Member of Philadelphia Advisory Council, 1973 - 1976.
Member editorial board, Science, 1974 - 1976.
Member of Executive Advisory Committee of Federal Power Commission, National Power Survey, 1972 - 1975.
Member of Executive Advisory Committee of Environmental Protection Agency, 1974 - 1979.
Chairman, Panel on Ecology of Executive Advisory Committee, Environmental Protection Agency, 1974 - 1976.
Member of Committee on Human Resources, National Research Council, 1975 - 1976.
Member of Advisory Council for Department of Biology, Princeton University, 1975 - Present.
Member of General Advisory Committee, U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, 1975 - 1977.
Member of Committee on Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute, 1978 - Present.
Member of University Council Committee for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1978 - Present.
Member of Science Advisory Council of World Wildlife Fund - U.S., 1978 - 1986.
Member of Visiting Committee for Department of Energy and Environment of Brookhaven National Laboratory of Associated Universities, Inc., 1979 - Present.
Member of Air & Water quality Technical Advisory Committee of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Resources, 1979 - Present.
Member of National Academy of Sciences' Subcommittee on the Geochemical Environment in Relation to Health and Disease of the U.S. National Committee for Geochemistry, 1979 - 1985.
Chairman of National Academy of Sciences' Section on Population Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, 1980 - 1986.
Member of Board for the World Resources Institute, 1980 - Present.
Member of Board for the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, 1984 - Present.
Member of Energy Research Advisory Board, Secretary of Energy, 1982 - Present.
Member of National Council World Wildlife Fund, 1986 - Present.
Member of President Reagan's Advisory Commission on Acid Rain, 1982.

Other Activities

Trustee of Henry Foundation, Gladwyne, PA.
Trustee of Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation.
Member of Board of Directors, Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association.
Member of Advisory Council, French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust.
Member of Board of Directors, Greater Philadelphia Partnership.
Member of Board of Trustees, Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, NC
Member of Board of Trustees, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, MO
Member of Board of Trustees, The Institute of Ecology.
Member of Board of Directors, World Wildlife Foundation, 1980.
Member of President Reagan's Peer Review Committee on Acid Rain.
Member of Board of Governors, Nature Conservancy.
Member of Board of Managers, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

Organization Memberships

Botanical Society of America
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Ecological Society of America
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Sigma Xi
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Phycological Society of America
American Society of Naturalists
International Phycological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
International Association of Limnology
National Academy of Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Member of South Carolina Academy of Science
Honorary Member of Water Pollution Control Federation