William Eugene Evans

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American world-renowned marine mammal acoustician and ecologist and the fifth Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) serving from 1988 to 1989. Following his retirement from NOAA, he went into academia and became the Dean of the Maritime College, president of the Texas Institute of Oceanography, and Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He was later an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Notre Dame. From 2003 till his retirement in 2009, he was Editor in Chief of the American Midland Naturalist. Evans researched the history of international environmental policy and the conservation of threatened and endangered species. He wrote several books including an autobiography, 50 Years of Flukes and Flippers. He died on 12 October 2010, aged 80, in Bryan, Texas. Link to Wikipedia biography