Dr. James Ritchie

Born Scotland 1929; B.Sc. Aberdeen; Ph.D. Sheffield, U.K.; D.Sc. 1962 Aberdeen for "Flora and Vegetation of Northern Manitoba". In Canada from 1954. Professor Univ. Manitoba 1954-65; Trent 1965-67; Dalhousie 1968-70; Toronto (Scarborough College) 1970-present. Outstanding Late-Quaternary researcher. Imaginative and meticulous reconstructions of vegetational and climatic history of northern Canada, especially of northern Yukon, N.W.T., Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba. Student of tree line fluctuations in the arctic, and of the little Ice Age. Since 1978 also Late-Quaternary reconstructions of Late-Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and palaeoclimates, of Mediterranean and North Africa, cultural and prehistorical subsistence patterns, desertification etc. 83 papers, 4 books.