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  1. Feb 15, 2018 · Professor John Cairns Jr passed peacefully at home on 5 November 2017 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, not far from his beloved Virginia Tech. John will be remembered as a husband, father, and grandfather, distinguished professor and academic mentor, ecological pioneer, prolific author, champion of social consciousness and sustainability, fly-fishing enthusiast, avid hiker, experienced folk ...

    • Ken Dickson, Tom Waller, Richard Rip Sparks, Guy Lanza
    • 15 February 2018
    • 2018
    • 14, Issue2
  2. November 6, 2017. Professor John Cairns, Jr. passed peacefully on November 5, 2017 at the age of 94 with his daughter Karen at his side. Preceded in death by his wife Jean Ogden Cairns and survived by daughters Karen Cairns, Heather Cairns Chambers (Carl), sons Stefan (Nan) and Duncan (Deborah Foster). Further survived by grandchildren Moria ...

  3. Cairns’ program. Undeterred, Dr Cairns and 5 graduate students, myself included, convened our first day of class in one big room in the Forestry Building. We had no laboratories, equipment, or resources other than student stipends and Dr. Cairns’ confidence and vision. During that first day of class, Dr Cairns and his team framed the ...

  4. John Cairns Jr., a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Biology, died Sunday, Nov. 5, in Blacksburg. He was 94. Cairns joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1968, having previously worked as curator of limnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia from 1948 to 1966, and then a professor of zoology at the University of Kansas from 1966 to 1968.

  5. Oct 10, 2013 · EDITOR'S NOTE. This issue of IEAM contains two provocative Learned Discourses from Professor John Cairns, Jr. (“Integrated environmental assessment and management during a planetary state shift” and “Can a species rapidly moving toward a self-inflicted extinction be considered successful?”), which will be his last publications over an incredibly distinguished career.

    • Darla Donald
    • 1
    • 2013
    • 10 October 2013
  6. Jan 31, 2019 · John Cairns died peacefully on 12 November 2018, just shy of 96 years of age. He is survived by his wife of over 70 years, Elspeth Cairns, who was the enabling partner in this remarkable career ...

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