Joseph Augustine Cushman

Joseph Augustine Cushman (January 31, 1881 – April 16, 1949) was an American micropaleontologist and academic. He specialized in the study of marine protozoans (foraminifera) and became the foremost foraminiferologist of the first half of the twentieth century, developing to a "world-famous system of discovering petroleum deposits". His parents were Jane Frances (née Fuller and Pratt) and Darius Cushman; this was a second marriage for both. His father had a store in Bridgewater where he sold and repaired shoes. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1909.

Career Cushman was a curator at the Boston Natural History Museum (now the Harvard Museum of Natural History), working part-time while he attended graduate school. He was president of the Paleontological Society, president of the Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Following the tradition and continuing Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research which was published by Cushman, the foundation of It publishes the Journal of Foraminiferal Research (previously called Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research). He received the Hayden Memorial Geological Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1945. The Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research was established in 1980 and is presented annually to living researchers who make outstanding contributions to foraminiferology.

Personal life Cushman married Alice Edna Wilson at her home Steep Brook in Fall River, Massachusetts on October 7, 1903. She was the daughter of physician Frank S. Billings, who was deceased. Some Pliocene and Miocene Foraminifera of the Coastal Plain of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 646, 1918. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean Part 1: Astrorhizidae. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 104, 1918. Foraminifera of the Philippine and Adjacent Seas. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 100, vol. 4, 1921. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. Part E Textularidae. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin vol. 104, 1922 Shallow-water Foraminifera of the Tortugas Region. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 311, 1922. Samoan Foraminifera. Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication vol. 21, 1924. – via Google Books. Recent Foraminifera from Off the West Coast of America. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Technical Series vol 1, no. 10, pp. 119–188, 1927 A Monograph of the Foraminiferal Family Nonionidae. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 191, 1939 Geology and Biology of North Atlantic Deep-Sea Cores Between Newfoundland and Ireland U.S, Part 2: Foraminifera. with Lloyd G. Henbest. Geological Survey Professional Paper 196-A, 1940 The Foraminifera of the Tropical Pacific Collections of the "Albatross," 1899–1900. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 161, 1942 Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera of the Gulf Coastal Region of the United States and Adjacent Areas. U.S Geological Survey Professional Paper 206. Washington, D.C., 1946. Paleocene Foraminifera of the Gulf Coastal Region of the United States and Adjacent Areas: Descriptions and Illustrations of Smaller Foraminifera from the Gulf Coastal Region, Cuba, Central America, Haiti, and Trinidad. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 232, 1951

Journal articles "The Desmid Flora of Nantucket." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32, no. 101 (1905): 549–53 "Notes on the Zygospores of Certain New England Desmids with Descriptions of a Few New Forms." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32, no. 4 (1905): 223–29 "Some Desmids from Newfoundland." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33, no. 12 (1906): 607–15 "New England Desmids of the Sub-Family Saccodermae." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33, no. 6 (1906): 343–51 "A Synopsis of the New England Species of Tetmemorus." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 34, no. 12 (1907): 599–601 "The New England Species of Closterium." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35, no. 3 (1908): 109–134 "Texas Jackson Foraminifera". with E. R. Applin. AAPG Bulletin 1926, 10, no. 2 (February 1, 1926): 154–189 "Phylogenetic Studies of the Foraminifera, Part I", American Journal of Science April 1927, s5–13 (76) 315–326