{{short description|American botanist and lichenologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Bruce McCune | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Bruce Pettit McCune | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|01|30}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = [[Lichenology]]<br>[[Botany]] | workplaces = [[Oregon State University]] | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | alma_mater = [[University of Montana]]<br>[[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = PC-ORD<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=43519133|title=PC-ORD: An Integrated System for Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data|last1=McCune|first1=Bruce|journal=Abstracta Botanica|year=1986|volume=10|issue=2|pages=221–225}}</ref><ref name=Acharius/> | author_abbrev_bot = McCune | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = [[Acharius Medal]] (2016)<ref name=Acharius>{{cite web|author=Crittenden, Peter|title=Bruce McCune, Acharius Medallists|website=International Association for Lichenology (lichenology.org)|url=http://www.lichenology.org/index.html?/Awards/Acharius_McCune.html}}</ref> | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = Patricia S. Muir }} '''Bruce Pettit McCune''' (born 1952) is an American lichenologist, botanist, plant ecologist, and software developer for analysis of ecological data.
==Biography== McCune grew up in Cincinnati. He completed his freshman year of college at [[Lawrence University]] in [[Appleton, Wisconsin]], and then transferred to the [[University of Montana]] in the autumn of 1971. There he graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in botany. From 1971 to 1974 McCune and his then girlfriend, Patricia S. Muir, spent considerable time on [[Mount Sentinel]], where they investigated lichens, mosses, and other plants. From 1974 to 1975 he travelled and also worked for two summers in Montana for the [[Bureau of Land Management]]. From 1976 to 1979 he was a graduate student at the University of Montana, where he graduated with a master's degree.<ref name=newsletter>{{cite journal|title=....Bruce McCune More than Vascular at MONTU|author=Pipp, Andrea|pages=1 & 7–8|journal=Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium Newsletter|date=Spring 2012|url=https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=herbarium_newsletters}}</ref> In August 1979 he married Patricia Muir. She graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Montana.<ref name=MuirCV>{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae for Patricia S. Muir|date=2013|url=https://patriciamuir.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/6/0/24608118/muirlong-_oct_2013_for_website.pdf}}</ref> In 1979 the couple matriculated as graduate students at the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. There he received in 1982 his Ph.D. with a dissertation on forest ecology<ref name=newsletter/> and she received in 1984 her Ph.D. with a dissertation on plant ecology.<ref name=MuirCV/> In 1984 he became a postdoc in Indianapolis.<ref name=newsletter/> At Oregon State University he was from 1987 to 1993 an assistant professor, from 1993 to 1999 an associate professor, and from 1999 to the present a full professor.<ref name=Acharius/><ref>{{cite web|title=Bruce McCune|website=Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University|url=https://bpp.oregonstate.edu/users/bruce-mc-cune}}</ref> Patricia Muir also obtained a professorship at Oregon State University.<ref name=MuirCV/><ref>{{cite web|title=Patricia S. Muir|website=College of Forestry, Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium, Oregon State University|url=http://gradsymp.forestry.oregonstate.edu/patricia-s-muir}}</ref>
The genus ''[[Bruceomyces]]'' is named in honor of Bruce McCune. Since 2012 he has been a member of the editorial board of ''[[The Bryologist]]''.<ref name=Acharius/>
He and his wife have two daughters.<ref name=newsletter/>
==See also== * [[:Category:Taxa named by Bruce McCune]]
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{wikispecies-inline|Bruce Pettit McCune}} {{Recipients of the Acharius Medal}} {{authority control}}
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