| Eugene Filmore Stoermer | |
| Birth Date: | 7 March 1934 |
| Birth Place: | United States |
| Death Date: | 17 February 2012 (aged 77) |
| Death Place: | United States |
| Alma Mater: | Iowa State University |
| Known For: | diatoms study Anthropocene term |
| Field: | Botany and Ecology |
Eugene F. Stoermer (March 7, 1934February 17, 2012) was a leading researcher in diatoms, with a special emphasis on freshwater species of the North American Great Lakes. He was a professor of biology at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.
His Bachelor of Science degree was obtained in 1958 and his Doctor of Biological Science in 1963, both from Iowa State University. His doctoral thesis was "Post-pleistocene diatoms from Lake West Okoboji, Iowa" [1]
Stoermer originally coined and used the term Anthropocene from the early 1980s to refer to the impact and evidence for the effects of human activity on the planet earth. The word was not used in general culture until it was popularized in 2000 by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and others who regard the influence of human behavior on Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch.[2]
He is the co-author with J. P. Smol of The Diatoms Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ; According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1262 libraries [3]
In 2009, he received the honor of a festschrift, Diatom taxonomy, ultrastructure, and ecology : modern methods and timeless questions : a tribute to Eugene F. Stoermer [4]
Diatom genera — Stoermeria J.P. Kociolek, L. Escobar & S. Richardon, 1996.
Diatom species: