George Burton Rigg (February 9, 1872, Harrison County, Iowa – July 10, 1961) was an American botanist and ecologist, specializing in sphagnum bogs.
In 1909 he graduated with a master's degree in botany and become an instructor at the University of Washington, along with fellow botanists, John William Hotson and Theodore Christian Frye.
[2] In 1913 he went to the coast of southwestern Alaska to investigate the effects on kelp of the pumice and volcanic ash produced by the 1912 eruption of Mount Katmai.
Although most of his bog work was done in the Pacific Northwest, Rigg also made investigations in Alaska, British Columbia, Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia and the New England States.
[1]Rigg and the geoscientist Howard Ross Gould investigated Glacier Peak's volcanic ash deposits in peat bogs in Washington state and nearby areas.