Murray Fife Buell (October 5, 1905 – July 3, 1975) was an American ecologist and palynologist.
Helen was his field companion as well as his wife, and the two worked as a team in research and publication of several papers.
[1] Buell began his professional career at North Carolina State University in 1935, where he started his research on paleoecology of bogs and plant succession.
From 1947 until his retirement in 1971, Buell taught at Rutgers University, where he became professor of botany and served as director of the William Hutcheson Forest.
As early as 1955, he and his students studied ecology in relation to land-use management and human impacts, especially in parklands.