Hugh Miller Raup

Hugh Miller Raup (February 4, 1901 – August 10, 1995) was an American botanist, ecologist and geographer working on natural history and natural resource management in diverse regions—from tropical and temperate to arctic.

He served as director of the Harvard Forest from 1946 to 1967. After his retirement from Harvard in 1967, he spent three years as visiting professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University.

Raup spent several summers in the late 1960s in Mestersvig in North-East Greenland investigating the relationship between vegetation and environment in an arctic landscape.

He died on August 10, 1995, in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.

Publications 1934: Phytogeographic Studies in the Peace and Upper Liard River Regions, Canada 1957: Vegetational adjustment to the instability of the site. Proc. and Papers of the Tech. Meeting, 6th Internat. Union for the Conserv. of Natural 1982: The Lake Athabasca Sand Dunes of Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, with G. W. Argus