James Allen Keast, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian ornithologist and professor
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About James Allen Keast
- James Allen Keast (15 November 1922 – 8 March 2009) was an Australian ornithologist, and Professor of Biology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- Born in Turramurra, New South Wales, he performed war service 1941–45 in New Guinea and New Britain.
- He earned his BSc (1950) and MSc (1952) degrees at the University of Sydney, going on to earn an MA (1954) and PhD (1955) from Harvard.
- He started the first natural history series on Australian television in 1958–60.
- A long-time member and benefactor of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), he was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1960.
- Keast joined the faculty of Queen's in 1962, and in 1989 became a professor emeritus.
- In 1995 he was awarded the D.L.
- Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region.
- As well as numerous scientific papers, he authored and edited several books. Keast endowed a postgraduate student award - Birds Australia's (formerly Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) Professor Allen Keast Research Award.
- At Queen's, the J.
- Allen Keast Lake Opinicon Undergraduate Research Fellowship provides funds for an undergraduate to carry out summer study at Queen's University Biological Station.
- The J.
- Allen Keast Field Biology International Exchange Fund assists exchanges of biologists between Queen's and universities in the southern hemisphere. The fictional city-state of Keastipol, on the coast of the Great Southern Continent of K.V.
- Johansen's children's novel Torrie and the Firebird, was named after Keast.
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