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'''John Jay Kineman''' (born 1949) is an American [[ecologist]], and senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science<ref>[http://cires1.colorado.edu/science/groups/wessman/people/kineman/ John J. Kineman, Wessman Research Group] at ''colorado.edu.'' Accessed Sept. 9, 2017.</ref> at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]], known for his work in the fields of Geographical information systems<ref>Raper, Jonathan. "Geographical information systems." Progress in physical geography 17.4 (1993): 493-502.</ref> ecological characterization, environmental modeling and relational science.<ref>[[Corning, Peter A.]] "Systems theory and the role of synergy in the evolution of living systems." ''Systems Research and Behavioral Science'' 31.2 (2014): 181-196.</ref>
'''John Jay Kineman''' (born 1949) is an American [[physical scientist]] and [[Theoretical ecology|theoretical ecologist]], affiliated with the [[Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences|Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES)]]<ref>[http://cires1.colorado.edu/science/groups/wessman/people/kineman/ John J. Kineman, Wessman Research Group] at ''colorado.edu.'' Accessed Sept. 9, 2017.</ref> at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]], and Fellow of the [https://www.facebook.com/ssschv Sri Sathya Sai Center for Human Values] in Puttaparthi, India; known for his work in the fields of [[Geographic information system|Geographical information systems]], [https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70207660 ecological characterization], [[Ecological niche modelling|ecological niche modeling]], [[Complex system|Complex Systems Theory]], and [[Vedas|Vedic Studies]].


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Kineman obtained his BSc in [[earth physics]] from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] in 1972, where after seventeen years of public service, in 1989, he also obtained his MA in [[Spatial ecology|geographical ecology]]. Eventually in 2007 he also obtained his PhD in Ecosystem Science, Policy, and Ethics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.<ref name="incose cv 1972">[http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/central-savannah-river-area/chapter-events/2012/01/18/default-calendar/webinar-15-00-utc-foundations-of-relational-complexity-theory-dr.-john-j.-kineman Webinar 15:00 UTC: "Foundations of Relational Complexity Theory" – Dr. John J. Kineman]. at incose.org. 2012. Accessed Sept. 9, 2017.</ref>
Kineman obtained his BSc degree in [[Earth physics]] from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] in 1972. After seventeen years of public service, in 1989, he obtained an interdisciplinary MSc degree at the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado, Boulder]], combining [[environmental science]] and [[ecology]]. In 2007 he obtained his PhD in [https://www.colorado.edu/envs/ Environmental Studies] (Ecosystem Science, Policy, and Ethics) also from the University of Colorado, Boulder.


After his graduation from the University of California Los Angeles in 1972, Kineman started his career at the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA), working as officer and scientist in various assignments in oceanographic research at sea collecting geophysical, oceanographic, and climate data, Solar Forecaster at the Space Environment Services Center in Boulder, CO, and member of the [https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/research-response-evolving-role-science-oil-spills NOAA-Coast Guard Spilled Oil Research Team] (SOR Team) a research unit of the [https://marinecadastre.gov/espis/studies/study-23136.html Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program] (OCSEAP),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Engelmann |first=Rudolf J. |date=1979 |title=The Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0376892900002964/type/journal_article |journal=Environmental Conservation |language=en |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=171–180 |doi=10.1017/S0376892900002964 |issn=0376-8929}}</ref> publishing a one year study of the 'Tsesis' oil spill in the Baltic as his Masters Dissertation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aneer |first=Gunnar. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.4814 |title=The Tsesis oil spill : report of the first year scientific study (October 26, 1977 to December 1978) : a cooperative international investigation / by Askö Laboratory, University of Stockholm [and] Swedish Water and Air Pollution Research Institute [and] U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmo |last2=Elmgren |first2=Ragnar. |last3=Hansson |first3=Sture. |last4=Kineman |first4=John J. |date=1980 |publisher=U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Outer Continental Environmental Assessment Program, |location=Boulder, Colo. :}}</ref> He joined the Kenya Wildlife Conservation and Management Department of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (later reorganized under Richard Leakey as the [[Kenya Wildlife Service]]) in 1987 as a Senior Research Warden through the [[US Peace Corps]], and later helped conduct the 1981 census of Mountain Gorillas in 1981<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harcourt |first=A. H. |last2=Kineman |first2=J. |last3=Campbell |first3=G. |last4=Yamagiwa |first4=J. |last5=Redmond |first5=I. |last6=Aveling |first6=C. |last7=Condiotti |first7=M. |date=1983 |title=Conservation and the Virunga gorilla population |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00322.x |journal=African Journal of Ecology |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=139–142 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00322.x |issn=0141-6707}}</ref> under the direction of Dr. Sandy Harcourt at Diane Fossey's Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. He then began postgraduate research in ecology and returned to public service in NOAA at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), developing distribution modeling techniques and ecological characterization datasets<ref>{{Cite book |last=J. |first=Kineman, John |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1016991515 |title=Global ecosystems database |date=1992 |publisher=U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center and World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics |oclc=1016991515}}</ref> for emerging USA and International global change programs, and led development of the Data and Information Management component of a new NOAA "[https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/aa-updates/ocm-100614.html Center for Ecosystems Health]" in Charleston, SC.<ref>{{Cite book |last=O. |first=Kineman, John J. Parks, Bradley |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/38223520 |title=Ecological characterization : recommendations of a science review panel |date=1996 |publisher=National Geophysical Data Center |oclc=38223520}}</ref> In 1997 he joined [https://cires.colorado.edu/ CIRES] at the [[University of Colorado]], where he has continued as a Senior Research Scientist since retiring from government service in 2005. Extending the work of [[Robert Rosen (biologist)|Dr. Robert Rosen (mathematical biologist),]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosen |first=Robert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23386523 |title=Life itself : a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin, and fabrication of life |date=1991 |isbn=0-231-07564-2 |location=New York |oclc=23386523}}</ref> he completed his Ph.D. in the [https://www.colorado.edu/envs/ Department of Environmental Studies] in 2007, focused on [[Ecoinformatics|ecological informatics]], [[Niche modelling|niche modeling]], and [[Complex systems Theory|complex systems theory]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relational complexity in natural science and the design of ecological informatics - ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304888148/abstract |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en}}</ref> which he he continued in post-doc research through a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] grant to India 2007-2008, working as Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). Continuing research in both India and the USA to develop a theory of natural system wholeness, he published his first synthesis of Rosen's relational theory in 2011,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John J. |date=2011 |title=Relational Science: A Synthesis |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10516-011-9154-z |journal=Axiomathes |language=en |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=393–437 |doi=10.1007/s10516-011-9154-z |issn=1122-1151}}</ref> which he later called "R-Theory" or "Relational Holon Theory",<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John |date=2011-09-23 |title=R-THEORY: A FURTHER COMMENTARY ON THE SYNTHESIS OF RELATIONAL SCIENCE |url=https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings55th/article/view/1713 |journal=Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2011, Hull, UK |language=en |issn=1999-6918}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John J. |date=2012 |title=R-Theory: A Synthesis of Robert Rosen's Relational Complexity |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.2156 |journal=Systems Research and Behavioral Science |language=en |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=527–538 |doi=10.1002/sres.2156}}</ref> finding surprisingly deep correlations with ancient Vedic concepts of whole nature.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John J. |date=2017 |title=A causal framework for integrating contemporary and Vedic holism |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0079610717301530 |journal=Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology |language=en |volume=131 |pages=402–423 |doi=10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.09.011}}</ref> In 2020 he co-published an update of the general synthesis in two parts with his original PhD mentor Dr. Carol Wessman.<ref>{{Citation |last=Kineman |first=John J. |title=Relational Systems Ecology: Holistic Ecology and Causal Closure |date=2020 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_78-1 |work=Handbook of Systems Sciences |pages=1–55 |place=Singapore |publisher=Springer Singapore |isbn=978-981-13-0370-8 |access-date=2022-06-21 |last2=Wessman |first2=Carol A.}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Kineman |first=John J. |title=Relational Systems Ecology: The Anticipatory Niche and Complex Model Coupling |date=2020 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_79-1 |work=Handbook of Systems Sciences |pages=1–46 |place=Singapore |publisher=Springer Singapore |isbn=978-981-13-0370-8 |access-date=2022-06-21 |last2=Wessman |first2=Carol A.}}</ref> He has been a visiting professor at the [[Indian Institute of Sciences]] in Bangalore (Karnataka),<ref name=":0" /> the [[Sri Sathya Sai University|Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning]] in Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John J. |last2=Anil Kumar |first2=K. |date=2007-08-14 |editor-last=Silvia Broecker |editor-first=Monika |title=Primary natural relationship: Bateson, Rosen, and the Vedas |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/03684920710777838/full/html |journal=Kybernetes |language=en |volume=36 |issue=7/8 |pages=1055–1069 |doi=10.1108/03684920710777838 |issn=0368-492X}}</ref> and [https://www.vignan.ac.in Vignan's University] in Vadlamudi (Andhra Pradesh).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krupanidhi |first=Srirama |last2=Madhan Sai |first2=N. |last3=Leung |first3=Homan |last4=Kineman |first4=John J. |date=2017 |title=The Leaf as a Sustainable and Renewable System |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.2487 |journal=Systems Research and Behavioral Science |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=564–576 |doi=10.1002/sres.2487 |issn=1092-7026}}</ref> Kineman was elected President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]] in the year 2015-2016, producing the annual ISSS conference on the dual theme: Realizing Sustainable Futures in Socioecological Systems (USA) and Leadership for Sustainable Socioecological Systems (India).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kineman |first=John J. |last2=Srirama |first2=Krupanidhi |date=2017 |title=Introductory Essay for the SRBS Special Yearbook Issue: ‘Realizing Sustainable Futures in Socio-Ecological Systems’ (USA) in Parallel with ‘Leadership for Sustainable Socio-Ecological Systems’ (India) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.2502 |journal=Systems Research and Behavioral Science |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=521–526 |doi=10.1002/sres.2502 |issn=1092-7026}}</ref>
After his graduation from the University of California Los Angeles in 1972, Kineman started his career at the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]], working as officer and scientist. After its foundation in 1990 he joined the [[Kenya Wildlife Service]] as researcher, and also served in the [[US Peace Corps]]. In 1997 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences at the [[University of Colorado]], where he has been a Senior Research Scientist ever since. He has been visiting professor at the [[Indian Institute of Sciences]] and the [[Sri Sathya Sai University]].<ref name="incose cv 1972"/>

Kineman has been appointed Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment. He has been elected president of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]] in the year 2015-2016.


== Selected publications ==
== Selected publications ==
* John J. Kineman and Bradley O. Parks (eds.), ''Ecological characterization : recommendations of a science review panel : workshop held March 9–10, 1995, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.''
* John J. Kineman and Bradley O. Parks (eds.), ''Ecological characterization : recommendations of a science review panel: workshop held March 9–10, 1995, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.''


Articles, a selection:
Articles, a selection:

Revision as of 23:10, 21 June 2022

John Jay Kineman (born 1949) is an American physical scientist and theoretical ecologist, affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES)[1] at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Fellow of the Sri Sathya Sai Center for Human Values in Puttaparthi, India; known for his work in the fields of Geographical information systems, ecological characterization, ecological niche modeling, Complex Systems Theory, and Vedic Studies.

Biography

Kineman obtained his BSc degree in Earth physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. After seventeen years of public service, in 1989, he obtained an interdisciplinary MSc degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder, combining environmental science and ecology. In 2007 he obtained his PhD in Environmental Studies (Ecosystem Science, Policy, and Ethics) also from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

After his graduation from the University of California Los Angeles in 1972, Kineman started his career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), working as officer and scientist in various assignments in oceanographic research at sea collecting geophysical, oceanographic, and climate data, Solar Forecaster at the Space Environment Services Center in Boulder, CO, and member of the NOAA-Coast Guard Spilled Oil Research Team (SOR Team) a research unit of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP),[2] publishing a one year study of the 'Tsesis' oil spill in the Baltic as his Masters Dissertation.[3] He joined the Kenya Wildlife Conservation and Management Department of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (later reorganized under Richard Leakey as the Kenya Wildlife Service) in 1987 as a Senior Research Warden through the US Peace Corps, and later helped conduct the 1981 census of Mountain Gorillas in 1981[4] under the direction of Dr. Sandy Harcourt at Diane Fossey's Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. He then began postgraduate research in ecology and returned to public service in NOAA at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), developing distribution modeling techniques and ecological characterization datasets[5] for emerging USA and International global change programs, and led development of the Data and Information Management component of a new NOAA "Center for Ecosystems Health" in Charleston, SC.[6] In 1997 he joined CIRES at the University of Colorado, where he has continued as a Senior Research Scientist since retiring from government service in 2005. Extending the work of Dr. Robert Rosen (mathematical biologist),[7] he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Environmental Studies in 2007, focused on ecological informatics, niche modeling, and complex systems theory,[8] which he he continued in post-doc research through a Fulbright grant to India 2007-2008, working as Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). Continuing research in both India and the USA to develop a theory of natural system wholeness, he published his first synthesis of Rosen's relational theory in 2011,[9] which he later called "R-Theory" or "Relational Holon Theory",[10][11] finding surprisingly deep correlations with ancient Vedic concepts of whole nature.[12] In 2020 he co-published an update of the general synthesis in two parts with his original PhD mentor Dr. Carol Wessman.[13][14] He has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore (Karnataka),[14] the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh),[15] and Vignan's University in Vadlamudi (Andhra Pradesh).[16] Kineman was elected President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in the year 2015-2016, producing the annual ISSS conference on the dual theme: Realizing Sustainable Futures in Socioecological Systems (USA) and Leadership for Sustainable Socioecological Systems (India).[17]

Selected publications

  • John J. Kineman and Bradley O. Parks (eds.), Ecological characterization : recommendations of a science review panel: workshop held March 9–10, 1995, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Articles, a selection:

  • Clark, David M., David A. Hastings, and John J. Kineman. "Global databases and their implications for GIS." Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications. Longman, London 2 (1991): 217-245.
  • Rosen, Judith, and John Jay Kineman. "Anticipatory systems and time: a new look at Rosennean complexity." Systems Research and Behavioral Science 22.5 (2005): 399-412.
  • Kineman, John J. "Relational science: a synthesis." Axiomathes 21.3 (2011): 393-437.

References

  1. ^ John J. Kineman, Wessman Research Group at colorado.edu. Accessed Sept. 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Engelmann, Rudolf J. (1979). "The Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program". Environmental Conservation. 6 (3): 171–180. doi:10.1017/S0376892900002964. ISSN 0376-8929.
  3. ^ Aneer, Gunnar.; Elmgren, Ragnar.; Hansson, Sture.; Kineman, John J. (1980). The Tsesis oil spill : report of the first year scientific study (October 26, 1977 to December 1978) : a cooperative international investigation / by Askö Laboratory, University of Stockholm [and] Swedish Water and Air Pollution Research Institute [and] U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Marine Pollution Assessment, National Oceanic and Atmo. Boulder, Colo. :: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Outer Continental Environmental Assessment Program,.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. ^ Harcourt, A. H.; Kineman, J.; Campbell, G.; Yamagiwa, J.; Redmond, I.; Aveling, C.; Condiotti, M. (1983). "Conservation and the Virunga gorilla population". African Journal of Ecology. 21 (2): 139–142. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.1983.tb00322.x. ISSN 0141-6707.
  5. ^ J., Kineman, John (1992). Global ecosystems database. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center and World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics. OCLC 1016991515.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ O., Kineman, John J. Parks, Bradley (1996). Ecological characterization : recommendations of a science review panel. National Geophysical Data Center. OCLC 38223520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Rosen, Robert (1991). Life itself : a comprehensive inquiry into the nature, origin, and fabrication of life. New York. ISBN 0-231-07564-2. OCLC 23386523.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Relational complexity in natural science and the design of ecological informatics - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  9. ^ Kineman, John J. (2011). "Relational Science: A Synthesis". Axiomathes. 21 (3): 393–437. doi:10.1007/s10516-011-9154-z. ISSN 1122-1151.
  10. ^ Kineman, John (2011-09-23). "R-THEORY: A FURTHER COMMENTARY ON THE SYNTHESIS OF RELATIONAL SCIENCE". Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2011, Hull, UK. ISSN 1999-6918.
  11. ^ Kineman, John J. (2012). "R-Theory: A Synthesis of Robert Rosen's Relational Complexity". Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 29 (5): 527–538. doi:10.1002/sres.2156.
  12. ^ Kineman, John J. (2017). "A causal framework for integrating contemporary and Vedic holism". Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 131: 402–423. doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.09.011.
  13. ^ Kineman, John J.; Wessman, Carol A. (2020), "Relational Systems Ecology: Holistic Ecology and Causal Closure", Handbook of Systems Sciences, Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 1–55, ISBN 978-981-13-0370-8, retrieved 2022-06-21
  14. ^ a b Kineman, John J.; Wessman, Carol A. (2020), "Relational Systems Ecology: The Anticipatory Niche and Complex Model Coupling", Handbook of Systems Sciences, Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 1–46, ISBN 978-981-13-0370-8, retrieved 2022-06-21
  15. ^ Kineman, John J.; Anil Kumar, K. (2007-08-14). Silvia Broecker, Monika (ed.). "Primary natural relationship: Bateson, Rosen, and the Vedas". Kybernetes. 36 (7/8): 1055–1069. doi:10.1108/03684920710777838. ISSN 0368-492X.
  16. ^ Krupanidhi, Srirama; Madhan Sai, N.; Leung, Homan; Kineman, John J. (2017). "The Leaf as a Sustainable and Renewable System". Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 34 (5): 564–576. doi:10.1002/sres.2487. ISSN 1092-7026.
  17. ^ Kineman, John J.; Srirama, Krupanidhi (2017). "Introductory Essay for the SRBS Special Yearbook Issue: 'Realizing Sustainable Futures in Socio-Ecological Systems' (USA) in Parallel with 'Leadership for Sustainable Socio-Ecological Systems' (India)". Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 34 (5): 521–526. doi:10.1002/sres.2502. ISSN 1092-7026.
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