Vale Jim Pawley

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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Very sorry to hear this. Jim was greatly knowledgeable and put his
knowledge to superb use with such contributions as the "Handbook of
Biological Confocal Microscopy."

Our world is a lesser place with his loss.

Martin Wessendorf





On 3/12/2019 2:30 AM, Stephen Cody wrote:

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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>  
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>  
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>  
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>  
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>  
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
> Stephen H. Cody

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I attended the UBC course in 2008. My thanks to Jim and the many others who contributed to the course I attended (and all the other years that the course was held). The UBC course was an intellectually stimulating (and exhausting) 12 days. The Handbook is an essential reference and a lot of work on everyone's part. My heart goes out Jim's family.

Thanks for letting the rest of the community know Steve.
Doug

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Subject: Vale Jim Pawley

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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I attended the 1996 course (the very first one?) and later on Jim came to Brazil for a confocal congress and we had a great time showing him around historic cities around Belo Horizonte.

Will be greatly missed.

Renato Mortara


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I attended the UBC course in 2008. My thanks to Jim and the many others who contributed to the course I attended (and all the other years that the course was held). The UBC course was an intellectually stimulating (and exhausting) 12 days. The Handbook is an essential reference and a lot of work on everyone's part. My heart goes out Jim's family.

Thanks for letting the rest of the community know Steve.
Doug

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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I had the privilege of knowing Paul from the Vancouver courses and to contribute to the Handbook of "Biological Confocal Microscopy”. His “watermark” on all microscopists is tremendous. Please count with me for any postumum action related with his work!

My heartfelt condolences to the his family
Nuno Moreno, Eng. PhD.
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

> On 12 Mar 2019, at 14:27, Martin Wessendorf <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> *****
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> *****
>
> Very sorry to hear this. Jim was greatly knowledgeable and put his knowledge to superb use with such contributions as the "Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy."
>
> Our world is a lesser place with his loss.
>
> Martin Wessendorf
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/12/2019 2:30 AM, Stephen Cody wrote:
>> *****
>> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
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>> *****
>>
>> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>>
>> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>>  Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>>  For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>>  Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>>  Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>>  Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>>
>> Stephen H. Cody
>
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A very good friend, still remember our first time, his red jacket that i copied... his microscopy. No words for such a sad event except that Jim will be always in our labs.
Un abbraccio for Christine and family.
Alby

> Il giorno 12 mar 2019, alle ore 08:30, Stephen Cody <[hidden email]> ha scritto:
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> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
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> *****
>
> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
> Stephen H. Cody

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Hello, I am very sorry to hear the news. I often reached out to him for answers and he was kind of enough to reply. I will miss his guidance and expertise.



Brian Armstrong PhD
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Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
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Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope


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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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Thank you for sharing this Stephen. Without dragging this out, this is indeed sad news, but I’ll use it to thank Jim. I was a student at the course in 2007, a team lead in 2008, and participated as a vendor representative with Olympus Canada till it closed in 2010 or so. To say that Jim and the UBC course had an impact on my development, my career path, my life, is an understatement; for that I will always be grateful. What a character, Jim Pawley; those who attended, worked, toiled, rejoiced, celebrated, blew a gasket at the course know what I’m talking about. It was a true privilege to attend the UBC course, and be mentored by Jim and his tremendous cast of characters, many of whom are on this list. My deepest condolences to his family, my sincere thanks to him, my friends from the course, and to this List-Serv that continues to open my eyes.

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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
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Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
His contributions will be forever recognized.
He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
I loved his style of teaching and his presence both in the classroom and behind the scenes.

Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know the interesting facts about him that you put in your post.

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.

Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.

For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.

Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.

Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.

Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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This is a great loss for the scientific community. I just announced to my FRET workshop participants, everyone felt sad about it.
Jim always asks questions whenever he listens to the lecture. You always feel comfortable of his presence in a seminar room.
We miss him
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A very good friend, still remember our first time, his red jacket that i copied... his microscopy. No words for such a sad event except that Jim will be always in our labs.
Un abbraccio for Christine and family.
Alby

> Il giorno 12 mar 2019, alle ore 08:30, Stephen Cody <[hidden email]> ha scritto:
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>
> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
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I attended the UBC course for several years providing cameras and Yokogawa SDs. My wife Donna and son Chris would attend as well, so it was like a Summer Camp without a "lights out time"..  Jim took an interest in Chris, and would spend time discussing science and technology, debating the ICCD vs the EMCCD. Chris got to meet and interact with all of the scientists and learned about microscopes from the best.  Today he is at NYU and Columbia to upgrade some of our clients microscopes, and train their post docs and grad students….So Jim’s legacy continues through all those who interacted with him at the course and elsewhere. Also ….Best Oyster’s I ever had…..

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> On Mar 12, 2019, at 10:10 AM, Dan Focht <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>
> Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
> His contributions will be forever recognized.
> He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
> I loved his style of teaching and his presence both in the classroom and behind the scenes.
>
> Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know the interesting facts about him that you put in your post.
>
> Dan Focht
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2019, at 3:30 AM, Stephen Cody <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
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Yes, Renato, it was the very first of these courses that we both
attended as students.

I still have the green folder from the course in my office and just took
it out to check: 3D Microscopy of Living Cells, July 27 - August 4,
1996. I learned a lot at this course, including that PMTs have less
noise but worse QE than CCD cameras (from my notes on a talk by Jim),
that slit scan confocals are possible (I believe Noran was there) and
that you can put salmon on a barbecue. The course motto seems to have
adapted later on, back then it was "If it's not diffraction its
statistics" and I proudly wore the respective course T-shirt for quite
some time.

I also remember that upon returning from the course quite a few people
were interested in the hand-out of Roger Tsiens talk that Jim was able
to organize, with the spectrum of a new and yet unpublished GFP variant:
"10C has the longest wavelengths yet (513 nm exc, 527 nm em)".

I cannot even estimate the number of times I looked up something in the
handbook.

A lot of memories, all of them good ones. Thank you Jim! My thoughts are
with the family.

Steffen


Am 12.03.2019 um 15:55 schrieb Renato Mortara:

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> I attended the 1996 course (the very first one?) and later on Jim came
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> Will be greatly missed.
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> years that the course was held). The UBC course was an intellectually
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> Jim's family.
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> Thanks for letting the rest of the community know Steve.
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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and
> also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield
> Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died
> almost immediately.
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He
> immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale,
> BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their
> chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier
> Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the
> family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied
> electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
> Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the
> University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral
> positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in
> 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was
> to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a
> national microscopy facility.
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
> Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty
> of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned
> by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not
> just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted
> participants from all over the world. The course provided the
> foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological
> Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential
> resource.
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years
> raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught
> classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt.
> He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington
> DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and
> Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and
> the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often
> appeared in local papers.
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to
> fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim
> built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The
> family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way
> by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its
> first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George
> Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the
> couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast,
> and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day,
> he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife
> of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily
> (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura
> Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this
> week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the
> celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical
> Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to
> arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be
> determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to
> [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu
> of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community
> Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com. His family
> will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at
> http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
> Stephen H. Cody
>

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For me it was The 39 steps: a cautionary tale of quantitative 3-D
fluorescence microscopy.
that defined my memory of Dr. Pawley.  I can't recall how many times I have
referred to this brief but timeless article.

So sorry to hear this news.

Mike Ignatius
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> Agreed, Jim will be sadly missed.
> His contributions will be forever recognized.
> He was also a great guy to work with at his Confocal Microscopy Courses.
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> Thanks Stephen for the biography, I did not know the interesting facts
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> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also
> from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley,
> who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost
> immediately.
>
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated
> to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they
> joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then
> to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack
> and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond,
> California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie
> Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in
> biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of
> postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife
> Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology
> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities
> was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a
> national microscopy facility.
>
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
> Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of
> internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by
> manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just
> diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted
> participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation
> for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal
> Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising
> the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on
> climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped
> organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave
> lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He
> was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast
> Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix
> houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a
> cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent
> almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a
> founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his
> kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and
> guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they
> built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in
> Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said
> how lucky he felt to be here.
>
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of
> 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger
> Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and
> Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt.
> All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his
> life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (
> https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event
> May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also
> invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound
> into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
> the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association:
> https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on
> the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
> Stephen H. Cody
>
> Dan Focht
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> Butler, PA 16002-9259
> Office: 724-282-7145
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Have a good trip Jim!


It was a privilege to attend to your Annual Course on 3D microscopy of Living Cells.  It was the spark of my carreer!


I had also a great time with you at the FOM meetings.  Great guy, great scientist!


Here is a link to a very special poster of Jim that was made at that time!


https://www.dropbox.com/s/5n3vfyqmuopg3h5/Jim%20Pawley.jpg?dl=0

Louis , Alumni -2003- Annual Course on 3D microscopy of Living Cells


Louis Villeneuve

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Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal - Centre de recherche

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Have a good trip Jim!!!!!


Louis Villeneuve - Alumni 8th Annual Course on 3D of Living Cells-2003




Louis Villeneuve

Coordonnateur- Laboratoire de recherche - imagerie cellulaire

Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal - Centre de recherche

5000 rue Bélanger Est, Montréal (Qc) Canada

H1T 1C8

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Yes, Renato, it was the very first of these courses that we both
attended as students.

I still have the green folder from the course in my office and just took
it out to check: 3D Microscopy of Living Cells, July 27 - August 4,
1996. I learned a lot at this course, including that PMTs have less
noise but worse QE than CCD cameras (from my notes on a talk by Jim),
that slit scan confocals are possible (I believe Noran was there) and
that you can put salmon on a barbecue. The course motto seems to have
adapted later on, back then it was "If it's not diffraction its
statistics" and I proudly wore the respective course T-shirt for quite
some time.

I also remember that upon returning from the course quite a few people
were interested in the hand-out of Roger Tsiens talk that Jim was able
to organize, with the spectrum of a new and yet unpublished GFP variant:
"10C has the longest wavelengths yet (513 nm exc, 527 nm em)".

I cannot even estimate the number of times I looked up something in the
handbook.

A lot of memories, all of them good ones. Thank you Jim! My thoughts are
with the family.

Steffen


Am 12.03.2019 um 15:55 schrieb Renato Mortara:

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> I attended the 1996 course (the very first one?) and later on Jim came
> to Brazil for a confocal congress and we had a great time showing him
> around historic cities around Belo Horizonte.
>
> Will be greatly missed.
>
> Renato Mortara
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Confocal Microscopy List <[hidden email]> Em
> nome de Cromey, Douglas W - (dcromey)
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 12 de março de 2019 11:35
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> I attended the UBC course in 2008. My thanks to Jim and the many
> others who contributed to the course I attended (and all the other
> years that the course was held). The UBC course was an intellectually
> stimulating (and exhausting) 12 days. The Handbook is an essential
> reference and a lot of work on everyone's part. My heart goes out
> Jim's family.
>
> Thanks for letting the rest of the community know Steve.
> Doug
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Stephen Cody
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>
> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and
> also from Christine Pawley.
>
> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield
> Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died
> almost immediately.
> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He
> immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale,
> BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their
> chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier
> Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the
> family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied
> electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
> Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the
> University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral
> positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in
> 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was
> to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a
> national microscopy facility.
> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
> Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty
> of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned
> by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not
> just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted
> participants from all over the world. The course provided the
> foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological
> Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential
> resource.
> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years
> raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught
> classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt.
> He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington
> DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and
> Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and
> the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often
> appeared in local papers.
> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to
> fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim
> built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The
> family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way
> by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its
> first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George
> Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the
> couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast,
> and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day,
> he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife
> of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily
> (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura
> Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this
> week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the
> celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical
> Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to
> arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be
> determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to
> [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu
> of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community
> Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com. His family
> will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at
> http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
>
> Stephen H. Cody
>

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Hi Steve,

Thanks very much for sharing this very sad news about Jim. I attended the UBC 3D Live Cell Course in 2009 and it was an incredibly valuable experience. I am very grateful to Jim for organising this course.

It's a very difficult time for his family especially given his sudden death however I hope they can take some comfort from the thoughts of friends and colleagues as well as others like me who have greatly benefited from his efforts. As I'm looking up at my bookshelf, I see my personal copy of the 3rd edition of the Handbook on the shelf. I remember being a bit startled by the size of it knowing that I had to bring it back to New Zealand... Did I have to pay excess luggage?...Yes! But I was given a very nice bag to bring it back in as I had travelled the greatest distance to be there.

I've continued to learn from Jim over the years, reading his responses to questions on this listserv. He will be very much missed.

Kind regards,

Jacqui

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

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Sad news indeed!

I was a participant in the Second Annual Course on 3D Microscopy of Living Cell, in Vancouver BC in 1997.  I had just installed my first confocal microscope, a Noran Oz, and knew next to nothing about fluorescence microscopy, having been an electron microscopist.  The course was extraordinary in its scope and was also fun.  For a social event, Jim and his crew took the participants to a cook out on the beach and as an exercise he told us to break out into small groups, and, using only debris we could find on the beach, “build a microscope”.  Each group had to explain what purpose each bit of driftwood and other detritus we used in constructing our “microscope” served.  I will always remember that course as it was the underpinning of my long career in light microscopy.  I was always enlightened by Jim’s “two cents” as he weighed in on the Confocal Listserv.
He will be missed.


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Albany Medical College
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Hi Steve,

Thanks very much for sharing this very sad news about Jim. I attended the UBC 3D Live Cell Course in 2009 and it was an incredibly valuable experience. I am very grateful to Jim for organising this course.

It's a very difficult time for his family especially given his sudden death however I hope they can take some comfort from the thoughts of friends and colleagues as well as others like me who have greatly benefited from his efforts. As I'm looking up at my bookshelf, I see my personal copy of the 3rd edition of the Handbook on the shelf. I remember being a bit startled by the size of it knowing that I had to bring it back to New Zealand... Did I have to pay excess luggage?...Yes! But I was given a very nice bag to bring it back in as I had travelled the greatest distance to be there.

I've continued to learn from Jim over the years, reading his responses to questions on this listserv. He will be very much missed.

Kind regards,

Jacqui

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.

Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.

For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.

Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.

Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.

Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoastbotanicalgarden.org&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=u6hK%2FqX%2FKfbg0Jt9lDYx%2FfFfPYOpbuJTh2vYtBPRvNM%3D&amp;reserved=0). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsuncoastcommsolar.weebly.com&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=EFwCh%2Bzcd50LjMRrSSgwvgHeOo%2FR7Vvqx022suZern8%3D&amp;reserved=0.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpawleypudding.ca%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=IfirTUz%2BrxUD1wN9HLaxC68m0NRR9g3Rf3kgmw1KYE8%3D&amp;reserved=0. ”

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Not to mention the famous 39 steps for quantification. I kept a hardcopy for years.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12498682_The_39_Steps_A_Cautionary_Tale_of_Quantitative_3-D_Fluorescence_Microscopy <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12498682_The_39_Steps_A_Cautionary_Tale_of_Quantitative_3-D_Fluorescence_Microscopy>

I was there in the 2001 edition with Stefan Hell giving a talk about STED. It was also the debut of the EMCCD cameras, a Roper. At least the first time I saw one, with Pawley making an improvised demo of the potentiality and explaining how it works.

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> Yes, Renato, it was the very first of these courses that we both attended as students.
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> I still have the green folder from the course in my office and just took it out to check: 3D Microscopy of Living Cells, July 27 - August 4, 1996. I learned a lot at this course, including that PMTs have less noise but worse QE than CCD cameras (from my notes on a talk by Jim), that slit scan confocals are possible (I believe Noran was there) and that you can put salmon on a barbecue. The course motto seems to have adapted later on, back then it was "If it's not diffraction its statistics" and I proudly wore the respective course T-shirt for quite some time.
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> I also remember that upon returning from the course quite a few people were interested in the hand-out of Roger Tsiens talk that Jim was able to organize, with the spectrum of a new and yet unpublished GFP variant: "10C has the longest wavelengths yet (513 nm exc, 527 nm em)".
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> I cannot even estimate the number of times I looked up something in the handbook.
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> A lot of memories, all of them good ones. Thank you Jim! My thoughts are with the family.
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> Am 12.03.2019 um 15:55 schrieb Renato Mortara:
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>> I attended the 1996 course (the very first one?) and later on Jim came to Brazil for a confocal congress and we had a great time showing him around historic cities around Belo Horizonte.
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>> Will be greatly missed.
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>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De: Confocal Microscopy List <[hidden email]> Em nome de Cromey, Douglas W - (dcromey)
>> Enviada em: terça-feira, 12 de março de 2019 11:35
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>> I attended the UBC course in 2008. My thanks to Jim and the many others who contributed to the course I attended (and all the other years that the course was held). The UBC course was an intellectually stimulating (and exhausting) 12 days. The Handbook is an essential reference and a lot of work on everyone's part. My heart goes out Jim's family.
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>> Thanks for letting the rest of the community know Steve.
>> Doug
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>> Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.
>>
>> “We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
>> Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
>> For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world. The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
>> Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
>> Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
>> Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com. His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”
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>> Stephen H. Cody
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Remembering the beach party at the 2008 UBC course, our class did skits and the like. I dug out the words of a song that our group wrote and performed. Given the era Jim went to college in, it seemed appropriate. Jim had a big grin on his face.

IMAGINE (re-imagined)
With apologies to John Lennon

Imagine no spherical aberration
It's easy if you try
We'd be imaging deeper
Crisp images every time
Imagine all the science
We could do today...

Imagine there's no poisson
It's not hard to do
We'd have images to die for
Accurate photon counts too
Imagine all the people
Living in their labs

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday there'll be a detector
With an efficiency approaching one

Imaging brighter fluor dyes
I wonder if you can
No worries of photobleaching
Lasting from beginning to the end
Imaging all the structures
We could show the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
'Cause microscopists have all the fun!


Thanks Jim.
Doug

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Sad news indeed!

I was a participant in the Second Annual Course on 3D Microscopy of Living Cell, in Vancouver BC in 1997.  I had just installed my first confocal microscope, a Noran Oz, and knew next to nothing about fluorescence microscopy, having been an electron microscopist.  The course was extraordinary in its scope and was also fun.  For a social event, Jim and his crew took the participants to a cook out on the beach and as an exercise he told us to break out into small groups, and, using only debris we could find on the beach, “build a microscope”.  Each group had to explain what purpose each bit of driftwood and other detritus we used in constructing our “microscope” served.  I will always remember that course as it was the underpinning of my long career in light microscopy.  I was always enlightened by Jim’s “two cents” as he weighed in on the Confocal Listserv.
He will be missed.


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Hi Steve,

Thanks very much for sharing this very sad news about Jim. I attended the UBC 3D Live Cell Course in 2009 and it was an incredibly valuable experience. I am very grateful to Jim for organising this course.

It's a very difficult time for his family especially given his sudden death however I hope they can take some comfort from the thoughts of friends and colleagues as well as others like me who have greatly benefited from his efforts. As I'm looking up at my bookshelf, I see my personal copy of the 3rd edition of the Handbook on the shelf. I remember being a bit startled by the size of it knowing that I had to bring it back to New Zealand... Did I have to pay excess luggage?...Yes! But I was given a very nice bag to bring it back in as I had travelled the greatest distance to be there.

I've continued to learn from Jim over the years, reading his responses to questions on this listserv. He will be very much missed.

Kind regards,

Jacqui

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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.

Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.

For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.

Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.

Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.

Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoastbotanicalgarden.org&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=u6hK%2FqX%2FKfbg0Jt9lDYx%2FfFfPYOpbuJTh2vYtBPRvNM%3D&amp;reserved=0). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsuncoastcommsolar.weebly.com&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=EFwCh%2Bzcd50LjMRrSSgwvgHeOo%2FR7Vvqx022suZern8%3D&amp;reserved=0.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpawleypudding.ca%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CMazurkJ%40AMC.EDU%7C3d6525020fb84987604b08d6a72da518%7Cc04845f042244637aed29beea8319b5b%7C0%7C0%7C636880211820113814&amp;sdata=IfirTUz%2BrxUD1wN9HLaxC68m0NRR9g3Rf3kgmw1KYE8%3D&amp;reserved=0. ”

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It was a total shock to read your post Stephen. Thank you for letting us all know.

While I only actually ever met Jim on one occasion, I feel like he was one of my true colleagues. His rigorous discussions and ever gracious contributions to this confocal listserver were enormous - I feel this was one of the very best ways to learn what was, at that time, the newly emerging "art" of confocal microscopy. And then along came the totally amazing three editions of "The Handbook..." - references that have always set the benchmark. His "39 steps..." - always used when trying to teach others about quantitating fluorescence.
Personally, I owe Jim an enormous debt. For me, he was a major personal source of inspiration and a driver of rigor - always!
Thank you. You will be sadly missed but remembered always.
Paul Rigby


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Very sad news. I just received this from Jim’s Facebook account and also from Christine Pawley.

“We are heartbroken to announce the sudden loss of James Binfield Pawley, who collapsed playing tennis on Thursday March 7th and died almost immediately.
 
Jim was born January 15th 1944 in Gerrard’s Cross, England. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1946, first to Cloverdale, BC, where they joined his aunt Winifred and cousin Brenda on their chicken farm, and then to Vancouver. He spent summers on Gambier Island with the family of Jack and Joan Warn. In the late 1950s, the family moved to Ben Lomond, California. From 1962-66 he studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and in 1972 he got his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California-Berkeley. After a series of postdoctoral positions (including in London, where he met his wife Christine), in 1978 he took a faculty position in the department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of his main responsibilities was to run the three-story million-volt electron microscope, part of a national microscopy facility.
 
For sixteen years he also directed the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells Course on the University of British Columbia’s campus. With a faculty of internationally known scientists and cutting edge equipment loaned by manufacturers, the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells (motto, “It’s not just diffraction, it’s not just statistics: It’s biology!”) attracted participants from all over the world.  The course provided the foundation for his best-known publication, the Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy, now in its third edition and still an essential resource.
 
Galvanized by the threat of climate change, Jim spent recent years raising the alarm. He organized a teach-in at UW-Madison, and taught classes on climate change there and at the Elder College in Sechelt. He helped organize a climate march in Vancouver, marched in Washington DC, and gave lectures in many places including the Sunshine Coast, and Harbin, China. He was especially active in the Clean Air Society and the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association; his letters often appeared in local papers.
 
Jim loved photography and music (especially Scarlatti); he loved to fix houses, furniture, and boats. In the late 1970s with friends, Jim built a cabin across the water from Egmont (boat access only). The family spent almost every summer there, trekking 2000 miles each way by car. He was a founder of the Doriston Music Festival, which in its first year was his kids on violins and keyboard, and Don and George Gilmour on mandolin and guitar. When Christine retired in 2012, the couple moved to the house they built in Sechelt. Jim loved the coast, and was so happy to be back in Canada after 56 years away. Every day, he looked out the window and said how lucky he felt to be here.
 
Jim loved his family very much. He is survived by Christine, his wife of 43 years; his three children: Alice (Stephen Hoffmann), Emily (Roger Turner), and John; and his four grandchildren: Sam and Laura Turner, and Simon and Jane Hoffmann. A private funeral was held this week in Sechelt. All will be welcome to share stories about Jim at the celebration of his life on July 31, 2019 at the Sechelt Botanical Gardens (https://coastbotanicalgarden.org). We are also hoping to arrange an event May 13 in Madison, time and location to be determined. People are also invited to send stories and photos to [hidden email] to be bound into a book for his family. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sunshine Coast Community Solar Association: https://suncoastcommsolar.weebly.com.  His family will post updates on the memorial celebration and donation fund at http://pawleypudding.ca/. ”

Stephen H. Cody

[Alison J. North]

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Dear fellow imaging scientists,

We are very excited about the upcoming North Atlantic Microscopy Society
(NAMS) 1-day microscopy meeting, hosted at The Rockefeller University in
New York, Wed April 24, 2019!

The theme of this meeting will be “Pushing the limits of biological
imaging”, with talks on techniques to push the speed limit, the
resolution limit and the depth limit in optical microscopy.Sign up soon
to reserve your spot - please note that for space reasons we are capping
this meeting at 100 scientific attendees.

Registration is now open at https://namsmicroscopy.com/meeting-registration

*Confirmed Invited Speakers:*

  * *Alipasha Vaziri* (The Rockefeller University)
  * *Elizabeth Hillman* (Columbia University)
  * *Chris Xu* (Cornell)
  * *Kwanghun Chung* (MIT)

*/_We are now looking for six speakers_/*, either senior postdocs or
recent PIs, to present 15 minute short talks on Super Resolution
techniques.We would like the emphasis of these talks to be on the
practice of pushing commercially available instrumentation to its
limit./Abstracts should be submitted via the registration page./

_Registration deadline to receive custom sized souvenir t-shirt is April
9, 2019 (after this there will be random sizes available). */Meeting
registration deadline is April 17th, 2019/*/./_


We look forward to seeing you there!


*Alison North, host* (Rockefeller University)

*Darcy Peterka, co-host* (Columbia University)

*Gary Laevsky, NAMS Co-Founder *(Princeton University)

*Paul Shao, NAMS Co-Founder *(Princeton University)

*Shawn Davidson*, *NAMS *(Princeton University)

**

*Meeting program:**“Pushing the limits of biological imaging”*

*Session I:**_Pushing the speed limit_* 9.00 to 10.30

  * Alipasha Vaziri (Rockefeller University)

  * Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University)

*_Brief introduction to NAMS and BINA_*10.30 to 10.45

Using regional meetings and networks to further imaging science:

  * Gary Laevsky
  * Alison North

*Coffee/tea break* (vendor exhibits)10.45 to 11.00

*Tech bites session*11.00 to 12.00

12 x 5 min flash talks from vendors

*Session II:**_Pushing the resolution limit__Part 1_*12.00 to 12.45

Three 15 min short talks from senior postdocs or new PIs on practical
applications of high resolution microscopy (e.g. super-res, AFM)

*/_Speakers to be selected from abstracts._/*

*_Lunch with exhibits_*12.45 to 2.15

*Session II:**_Pushing the resolution limit:__Part 2_*2.30 to 3.15

Three more 15 min short talks from senior postdocs or new PIs on
practical applications of high resolution microscopy (e.g. super-res, AFM)

*/_Speakers to be selected from abstracts._/*

*_Panel discussion_*3.15 to 4.15

Transitioning newly developed equipment into other labs and core facilities

*Coffee/tea break*(vendor exhibits) ******       4.15 to 4.30

*Session III:_Pushing the depth limit_*4.30 to 5.30

Invited speakers:

  * Chris Xu (Cornell University)
  * Kwanghun Chung (MIT)


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Alison J. North, Ph.D.,
Research Associate Professor and
Senior Director of the Bio-Imaging Resource Center,
The Rockefeller University,
1230 York Avenue,
New York,
NY 10065.
Tel: office    ++ 212 327 7488
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