2016 journal article
Ernest Davis Seneca 1937-2015
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 97(2), 148–149.
TL;DR:
For his dissertation research, Ernest “Ernie” Seneca investigated factors influencing seed germination and seedling growth of dune grasses on the North Carolina coast.
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Ernest “Ernie” Seneca spent his professional career studying and teaching about marine coastal ecosystems. He earned a BS degree in Forestry in 1959 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech) and an MS in Wildlife Management in 1961, also at Virginia Tech. After a brief stint in a temporary position as Biologist with the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries in 1961, he served in the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant from 1962 to 1964. In 1964, he began his doctoral studies in physiological plant ecology under the direction of Arthur W. Cooper at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina (NCSU). For his dissertation research, he investigated factors influencing seed germination and seedling growth of dune grasses on the North Carolina coast. This research was timely because there were few studies on the behavior of seeds and seedlings of these species in nature.