“For myself, I express gratitude for the opportunity to investigate some zoonotic diseases on the arctic coast… I received as well the kind hospitality and assistance of the Iñupiat, in Barrow and Wainwright and other villages on the coast and in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range. They shared with me their knowledge of the fauna and flora of the Arctic, transmitted among themselves for generations. They were and are my mentors.”
Robert L. Rausch (2001)
Robert Lloyd Rausch was born in Marion, Ohio on 20 July 1921 and passed away at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington on 6 October 2012. In his 91 years and over more than 6 decades of a renowned career, Robert L. Rausch was a student in the broadest sense of field biology and a naturalist in the expansive sense of another century always seeking to understand the intricate and often hidden connections for...