George Van Dyne

Having developed skills as a horseman and an interest in the American West, he studied animal science at the Colorado State University.

He then gained his PhD from the University of California developing mathematical models for the ecosystem of rangeland.

He then went to work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he led the Environmental Sciences Section.

He joined Jerry S. Olson and Bernard Pattern in delivering the first Systems Ecology course at the University of Tennessee.

[2] According to soviet geographer Viktor Sochava, the most advanced geosystems modeling was made by George Van Dyne at desert-steep territories of Colorado.

Staff of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory circa 1975, Van Dyne is second from the right