Dr tom gillespie biography

Thomas Gillespie is an American geographer and professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Thomas Gillespie is a disease ecologist and conservation biologist recognized for his integrative approach to the conservation of biodiversity and mitigation.
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Thomas W. Gillespie papers

Collection — Box: 1-70

Identifier: SCM 310

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of papers and other materials covering Gillespie's life as a student, pastor, professor, and administrator. Much of the material includes correspondence and other communications between Gillespie and others. The bulk of the collection spans his presidency at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Dates

Conditions Governing Access

There are no special restrictions to access of this collection. It may be examined by library patrons under the normal rules and conditions of Special Collections.

Biographical / Historical

Thomas W. Gillespie was born in Los Angeles, CA, July 18, 1929. He served in the United States Marine Corps for a year before beginning his Bachelor of Arts degree, which he obtained from George Pepperdine College in 1951. Gillespie then went on to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained to the pastorate in the Presbytery of Los Angeles in 1954. At that tim

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Thomas Gillespie (geographer)

For others of the same name, see Thomas Gillespie.

American geographer

Thomas Gillespie is an American geographer and professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[1]

Gillespie's main area of research is in determining the patterns of species richness within a given geography, specifically native Hawaiian flora and tropical dry forests in biodiversity hotspot such as Hawaii, Sundaland, Indo-Burma, New Caledonia and the Caribbean, through remote sensing and GIS.^[1]^[2]^[3] His research has been used to inform global conservation policies and natural resource/tropical ecology management.^[3]

Education

Gillespie received his BA in international affairs from University of Colorado Boulder in 1990 and MA in geography from California State University, Chico in 1994. He went on to receive his PhD from UCLA in 1998.^[1]

Career

A 2008 study co-authored by Gillespie suggested that ethnic violence rather than the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 was the

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Dr. Thomas Gillespie

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