{{distinguish|Herbert B. Gregory}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Herbert Ernest Gregory | image = Herbert Ernest Gregory.png | birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|10|15}} | birth_place = [[Middleville, Michigan|Middleville]], [[Michigan]], US | death_date = {{death date and age|1952|1|23|1869|10|15}} | death_place = [[Honolulu]], [[Territory of Hawaii]] | education = {{plainlist| * [[Gates College]] <small>[[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] (1890)</small> * [[Yale University]] <small>[[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] (1896)</small> }} | occupation = [[Geologist]] }} '''Herbert Ernest Gregory''' (October 15, 1869 – January 23, 1952)<ref name=":0">[http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv18865 Guide to the Herbert E. Gregory photograph collection 1900–1944]</ref> was a [[Yale University]] [[geologist]] well known for his early 20th-century explorations of the [[Colorado Plateau]] in [[Arizona]] and [[Utah]]. One of his most important works is ''Colorado Plateau Region'', published by the [[United States Geological Survey]] on the occasion of the [[United States]] sponsoring the 16th [[International Geological Congress]].<ref name="Martin!983">{{cite journal|last=Martin|first=Geoffrey J.|title=Geography, Geographers and Yale University, c. 1770-1970|journal=Geography in New England Special Publication of the New England/St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society|year=1983|pages=2–9|url=http://old.geog.psu.edu/hog/depthistory_files/Yale_Geog_in_NE.pdf|accessdate=19 October 2012|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125125350/http://old.geog.psu.edu/hog/depthistory_files/Yale_Geog_in_NE.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Biography== Gregory was born October 15, 1869, in [[Middleville, Michigan]], to George A. Gregory and Jane Bross.<ref name=":0" /> He grew up in [[Crete, Nebraska]], and attended the Gates Academy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/b2900035x_0003/mode/2up |title=Universities and their Sons |publisher=R. Herndon Company |others=Introduction by [[William Torrey Harris]] |year=1899 |editor-last=Chamberlain |editor-first=Joshua L. |editor-link=Joshua Chamberlain |volume=III |page=237 |editor-last2=Wingate |editor-first2=Charles E. L. |editor-last3=Williams |editor-first3=Jesse Lynch |editor-link3=Jesse Lynch Williams |editor-last4=Lee |editor-first4=Albert |editor-last5=Paine |editor-first5=Henry G.}}</ref> In 1890, he received his [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] at [[Gates College]] located in [[Neligh, Nebraska]].<ref name=":1" /> Gregory worked as a civil engineer for [[Boston and Maine Railroad|Boston & Maine Railroad]] from 1890 to 1891 before becoming an instructor at [[Chadron Senior High School|Chadron Academy]] from 1891 to 1893. He then taught at Gates College from 1893–1895 and graduated with an [[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] from [[Yale University]] in 1896.<ref name=":1" /> He was a student at [[Harvard University]] under American [[geographer]] [[William Morris Davis]].{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} He was the director of the geology department at Yale University, where he worked to expand the department to include a human geography emphasis. Gregory was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1917 and the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Herbert Ernest Gregory |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/herbert-ernest-gregory |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Herbert+E.+Gregory&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> From 1919 to 1936 he served as director of the [[Bishop Museum]] in [[Hawaii]], where, in 1961, after his death, he was honored by a medal named after him. The Herbert E. Gregory Medal is awarded every four years by the [[Pacific Science Association]] to a leading scientist in the Pacific Region.<ref>{{cite web|title=2011 Herbert E. Gregory Medal |url=http://www.bishopmuseum.org/media/2011/pr11022.html |accessdate=19 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004042622/http://bishopmuseum.org/media/2011/pr11022.html |archivedate=4 October 2012 }}</ref>
His seminal work included mapping much of the bedrock geology of the [[Colorado Plateau]], particularly in geologic monographs concentrating on what is now the [[Navajo Nation]] in northeastern [[Arizona]] and southeastern [[Utah]]. Among many other achievements, he was the first to name and describe the [[Upper Triassic]] [[Chinle Formation]], which is famous for preserving extensive fossil evidence of [[Late Triassic]] terrestrial ecosystems, including [[petrified wood|fossilized logs]].
In 1931, Gregory published the first [[geological map]] of the [[Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument]].<ref name="Science">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79476904.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193802/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79476904.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2014|title=Utah's Fossil Trove Beckons, And Tests, Researchers|last=Stokstad|first=Erik|date=October 5, 2001|work=Science|accessdate=19 October 2012}}</ref> Gregory stated that no fossils had been discovered; however, many were later found.<ref name="Science" />
Gregory died January 23, 1952, in [[Honolulu]] in the then [[Territory of Hawaii]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin-dr-gregory-paci/172560796/ |title=Dr. Gregory, Pacific Area Scientist, Dies |newspaper=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |page=1 |date=1952-01-24 |access-date=2025-05-17 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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