Frank B. Golley

Frank Benjamin Golley III (September 24, 1930 – October 6, 2006) was an American ecologist. A graduate of Purdue University, Washington State University and Michigan State University, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1958, Golley joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in 1958. He was the director of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory from 1962 to 1967, the director of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation from September 1979 to September 1981, and director of the Institute of Radiation Ecology at the University of Georgia from 1984 to 1987. He was the founding editor of the journal Landscape Ecology, and wrote more than forty books on ecology.

Biography Frank Benjamin Golley III was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 24, 1930. His father managed a steel mill. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from Purdue University in 1952 and a Master of Science degree in wildlife management from Washington State University in 1954. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Michigan State University in 1958, writing his dissertation on "Energy dynamics of a food chain of the old-field community" under the supervision of Don W. Hayne.

After graduation, Golley was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina until September 1958, when he moved to the University of Georgia, where he would remain until 2000. He was the director of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory from 1962 to 1967, the director of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation from September 1979 to September 1981, and director of the Institute of Radiation Ecology at the University of Georgia from 1984 to 1987.