Glenn Van Blaricom

Shelton High School

Class of 1967

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Glenn Van Blaricom - Class of 1967 - Shelton High School

First Name	Glenn
Last Name	Van Blaricom
Graduation Year	Class of 1967
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	CA
Country	United States
Occupation	Professor emeritus, University of Washington
Favorite School Memory	Impossible to choose one, and too many to list, but here are the best: Friends Doug, Jim, Bruce, Steve, John, Richard, & Dave among many others; Olympic League Championship Mile Relay Team member, and being honored with the "Most Inspirational" Award by my track & field teammates (senior year); “The Miracle Worker” at the State Drama Showcase in Seattle; doing a 360 on the freeway in Biehl's 396 ...(read more)
About Me	My two beautiful daughters Betsy and Christy, and my five grandchildren are of course the pinnacles. I am in my second marriage. Kristina and I had some tough years but now live happily together on nine acres of mostly poison oak in the Sierra foothills near Mariposa, California (about 45 miles west of Yosemite National Park), together with four curious cats and two eccentric but beloved Australian Shepherds. Marine biology is more a way of life than a job, and was the dominant theme for most of my life. I am now (1 June 2017) retired, but my work on (and in) salt water defined me for forty years. I did field research on whales, seals, sea lions, kelp forests, abalones, geoducks, bat rays, sting rays, a bunch of little tiny critters that no one would recognize, and most of all sea otters. I traveled and worked all over the world, but especially in Alaska and California. I worked for two federal research agencies (US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Ecosystems Branch of the US Geological Survey) and, simultaneously with my federal research positions, as a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1986-1993) and the University of Washington (1993-2017). I was appointed “professor emeritus” at UW following retirement, and will continue to be involved part-time at UW for the duration. During my career I published three books about sea otters (two technical, one non-technical) and 80 papers (and counting) in technical journals. I’ll continue writing and publishing as long as I am able. As a professor I successfully advised 44 graduate students (17 doctorate, 27 masters), all of whom found employment in marine biological fields. I logged over 2000 hours of “bottom time” as a professional research diver from 1974 until 2013, but had to forego diving work following a near fatal ...(read more)